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In 2000, the Cork, Ireland Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, [3] an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for Cork writer Frank O'Connor. The festival showcases readings, literary forums and workshops.
Set up in 1986 to honour writer and broadcaster Francis MacManus, the RTÉ Short Story Competition recognises and rewards the best new Irish fiction writing for radio. Since its inception, the competition has been a critically important launch pad for new and emerging writers in Ireland.
Several Irish short-story anthologies have been published since 2000 to meet the demands of the reading public, for example: the Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2005 and 2007; Irish Short Stories (2011), edited by Joseph O'Connor; Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories (2013), edited and with an introduction by Kevin Barry; The ...
The James White Award is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world. It was established in 2000 to commemorate the life and work of the Irish science fiction author James White. The competition was created to encourage new writers and is not open to professional authors.
He was born in Dublin.His story Cinn Lae Seangáin (“The Diary of an Ant”) won the award for best short story collection in the Oireachtas 2005 competition, while in the following year his novel An Tionscadal (“The Project”) won the main Oireachtas literary award.
Sunday Tribune Best New Irish Novel in 1992, The William Allingham Award. The Listowel Writers’ Week Short Story Prize. Hennessy Literary Award shortlisting, 1989. Prize-winner in the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Competition (UK), 2000. Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize shortlisting, 2008; The FISH International Short Story Award, 2011
This is a list of short story Irish writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Short story writers whose work is in Irish are included. A brief outline of the history of Irish fiction is also available.
Kevin Barry (born 1969) is an Irish writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and four novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English.