Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day is a highly acclaimed author, journalist, and broadcaster from the United Kingdom. She was born in Northern Ireland and began her career as a journalist for The Derry Journal. Day's writing career has since taken her to various prestigious publications, including The Observer, The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, the Observer, Vogue, Grazia, and Elle. She is currently a columnist for You magazine on the Mail on Sunday and a contributing editor for Harper's Bazaar.

In addition to her work as a journalist, Day is an accomplished author with four novels to her name. Her debut novel, Scissors, Paper, Stone, won a Betty Trask Award in 2004. Her follow-up novel, Home Fires, was an Observer Book of the Year. Paradise City, her third novel, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Observer and the Evening Standard and was People magazine's Book of the Week. The Party, her fourth novel, was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard and Judy Summer Book Club pick. It has also been optioned for television.

Day's writing has earned her numerous accolades, including the British Press Award for Young Journalist of the Year in 2004 and a Highly Commended recognition for Feature Writer of the Year in 2013. In addition to her work as a novelist and journalist, Day is also a broadcaster and podcaster. Her podcast, "How To Fail With Elizabeth Day," is a celebration of the things that haven't gone right and has been a massive success, earning her the Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards.
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Scissors, Paper, Stone 2011
2 Home Fires 2013
3 Paradise City 2015
4 The Party 2017
5 Magpie 2022
6 One of Us 2025
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 How to Fail 2019
2 Failosophy 2020
3 Failosophy for Teens 2023
4 Friendaholic 2023
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Collisions 2013
2 Babysitting 2014
The BBC National Short Story Award Books
# Title Year
1 The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (By: Helen Oyeyemi, David Constantine, Sarah Hall, Aminatta Forna, Jon McGregor) 2010
2 The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 (By: Alison MacLeod, M.J. Hyland, Jon McGregor, K.J. Orr, Sue MacGregor) 2011
3 The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (By: Miroslav Penkov, Carrie Tiffany, Deborah Levy, M.J. Hyland, Clive Anderson, Lucy Caldwell, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Julian Gough, Chris Womersley, Krys Lee, Adam Ross) 2012
4 The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 (By: Lionel Shriver, Sarah Hall, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lucy Wood) 2013
5 The BBC National Short Story Award 2014 (By: Tessa Hadley, Lionel Shriver, Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain, Francesca Rhydderch, Alan Yentob) 2014
6 The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (By: Jeremy Page) 2015
7 BBC National Short Story Award 2016 (By: Hilary Mantel, Claire-Louise Bennett, Lavinia Greenlaw, Tahmima Anam, Jenni Murray, K.J. Orr) 2016
8 The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 (By: Joanna Trollope, Helen Oyeyemi, Jenni Fagan, Benjamin Markovits, Will Eaves, Cynan Jones) 2017
9 The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 (By: Kerry Andrew, Sarah Hall, Ingrid Persaud, Nell Stevens, Kiare Ladner, Stig Abell) 2018
10 The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Jo Lloyd, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Nikki Bedi) 2019
11 The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 (By: Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Caleb Nelson, Jan Carson, Jack Houston) 2020
12 The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 (By: Danny Rhodes, James Runcie, Richard Smyth, Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding) 2021
13 The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 (With: Kerry Andrew, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams) 2022
14 The BBC National Short Story Award 2023 (By: Kamila Shamsie, Reeta Chakrabarti, Nick Mulgrew, Naomi Wood, Cherise Saywell, K Patrick) 2023
15 The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Ross Raisin, Will Boast, Manish Chauhan, Paddy O’Connell, Vee Walker) 2024
Elizabeth Day Anthologies
# Title Year
1 The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 2012
2 The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 2018
3 The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 2019
4 It's Not OK to Feel Blue 2019
5 The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 2020
6 The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 2022