Please note: The 2011/12 Short Story Prize will open for entries 1st Aug 2011.

David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, number9dream, Ghostwritten, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, will be judging the 2011/12 prize.

Fish Publishing runs the short story competition each year, the winners of which are published in the annual Fish Anthology. The Anthology is launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, July each year.

Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Dermot Healy, past judges of the Fish Short Story Prize, are honorary patrons.

The Fish Short Story Prize welcomes stories on any theme written in English, with a maximum of 5,000 words.

Fish has been running the short story contest since 1995. Publication in the anthology has been a stepping stone for many into successful writing careers. For a sample of these authors click Alumni, and for a sample of short stories published in previous anthologies click short stories

To view our catalogue of anthologies containing the winning stories from previous short story competitions click Fish Books.

Competition Summary 2011/12

Opens: 1st Aug 2011
Closing date: 30th November 2011
Results announced: 17 March 2012
Anthology published: July 2012

Judge: David Mitchell.

Prizes

The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology.

First Prize – €3,000 – (of which €1,000 is for travel expenses to the launch of the Anthology.)

Second Prize – a week at the Anam Cara Writers’ & Artists’ Retreat in West Cork’s Beara Peninsula, with €300 traveling expenses.

Third Prize – €300

All those who are published in the Anthology will receive five complementary copies.

Visit the website for details on how to enter: http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-story-competition-contest.php