The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize was created in 2019 as a celebration of the short story form and the resilience of independent booksellers. Funded by Brick Lane Bookshop, the competition is open to all UK residents and seeks to discover, publish and promote new, exciting and diverse voices in fiction. The 2021 anthology features stories from Aoife Inman, Danielle Vrublevskis, Katherine Gutierrez, Leeor Ohayon, Nayela Wickramasuriya, and more, with a foreword by Brick Lane Bookshop owner Denise Jones and an introduction by project manager Kate Ellis.