Debut author Colwill Brown wins BBC short story award for ‘heartbreaking’ tale – read an extract here

‘The brio of the dialect, the brilliance of the narration and the handling of the passage of time made this our winner’ … Colwill Brown. Photograph: Kathryn Widdowson

Doncaster-born writer Colwill Brown has won this year’s BBC national short story award for a “heartbreaking” entry about shame and the long-term effects of trauma, told in South Yorkshire dialect.

Brown was announced as the winner of the £15,000 award, run in collaboration with Cambridge University, at a ceremony held at BBC Broadcasting House on Tuesday evening.