2013 Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition winners

Announcing the results of the 2013 Seán Ó Faoláin
International Short Story Competition.

1st & 2nd prize winning stories, and the four runners-up, will be publishedin the December 2013 issue of Southword Journal.

1st Prize

Molia Dumbleton--Illinois, USA
'The Way We Carried Ourselves'

2nd Prize

Danielle McLaughlin--Co Cork, Ireland
'The Others'

Runners-up

Ariel Berry--Indiana, USA
'To the Stranger in the Corner Drawing Wings on a Napkin with a Felt-tip Pen'

Kevin Doyle--Cork, Ireland
'We Should Be Beyond This'

Aoife Fitzpatrick--Dublin, Ireland
'The Observable Universe'

Gaynell Gavin--South Carolina, USA
'Blue Hour'

Highly Commended

Joanna Campbell--Gloucestershire, UK
'When Saturday Stopped'

Tracey Iceton--Stockton-on-Tees, UK
'Butterfly Wings'

P.A. Gallagher--Belfast, Northern Ireland
'The Winner'

Ruth Joffre--Iowa, USA
'Three Sides Surrounded by Mountains, One Side by Water'

Aviya Kushner--Illinois, USA
'Miriam'

Sheila Mulhern--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
'The Thaw'

Siobhan Murtagh--Co Kildare, Ireland
'Praying to Rubens'

Joseph Neal--New York, USA
'The Heavy Man'

Jill Widner--Washington, USA
'When Stars Fell Like Salt Before the Revolution'