Each of the five shortlisted stories are available to listen to on BBC Sounds and have been published in an anthology. The other shortlisted stories were And the Moon Descends on the Temple That Was by Kerry Andrew Flat 19 by Jenn Ashworth Long Way to Come for a Sip of Water by Anna Bailey and Green Afternoon by Vanessa Onwuemezi. Speirs said the judges loved the “freshness and the spirit in the writing” and felt the story “brilliantly captures the nuances of blended family dynamics, the jealousies and stresses, the efforts and the rejections”. Joining Day on the judging panel were Costa first novel award-winning novelist Ingrid Persaud writer, poet and editor, Will Harris Booker prize shortlisted novelist and professor of creative writing, Gerard Woodward and returning judge Di Speirs, books editor at BBC Radio.
Madeleine Feeny in her Guardian review called Send Nudes an “exhilarating collection” which “captures the light and dark of negotiating relationships, solitude, sexuality and loss”. “Blue 4eva engages with sexuality, too, particularly with queerness, in a subtle way that I found interesting to write.” “I’m always thinking about what it looks like to be a young woman: about bodies and power, about friendships and family, about the ways we’re constantly looking to break free,” Sams said. Sams drafted the story when she was 19 while studying creative writing at the University of Manchester, returning to it when she came to write Send Nudes a few years later.
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