Fish Short Story Prize: €3,000

Fish Short Story Prize: €3,000 The Ten Best Stories will be Published in the 2014 Fish Anthology "Fish is an open door that is inviting writers to walk through it. It has to be encouraged, congratulated, celebrated." Roddy Doyle Claire Kilroy is the judge. She will select the best ten short stories for publication in the Fish Anthology 2014.  Claire Kilroy is one of Ireland's most exciting emerging writers. She is the acclaimed author of four novels - All Summer, (recipient of the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was short-listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), Tenderwire (shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel Award), All Names Have Been Changed and The Devil I Know. In 2002 she received an Arts Council Literature Award. Closing Date: 30 November 2013. Word limit is 5,000. There is no restriction on theme or style, and the prize is open to writers from all countries who are writing in English. First Prize: €3,000, of which €1,000 is for travel to the launch of the Fish Anthology in July 2014 at the West Cork Literary Festival. Second Prize: a week at Anam Cara Writer's Retreat in West Cork, plus €300. Third prize: €300. Entry fee: €20 (€10 subsequent entries). Online Entry. Once you register and enter online, you can login and check your entry(ies) at any time. Results will be announced on 17 March on the Fish website, and sent out in the newsletter. The most recent winner was Sally Franicevich from New Zealand with The Nut Machine.