WINNERS Fish Short Story Prize 2012/13
Judge Philip O'Ceallaigh has chosen the following stories to be published in the 2013 Fish Anthology.
First: Sally Franicevich - The Nut Machine
Second: Elaine McCluskey - Something Pretty Something Nice
Third: Jacqueline P. Haskell - One for Hello, One for Goodbye
Honorary Mentions:
Kirstin Zhang - In Their Song
David Lewis - Get, Get Over It
Jennifer Bailey - A Sense of Obligation
Katya Maddison - A Terrible Business
Robin Samu - Theft of Services
Monica Garvey - Thunderhead
Lucy Maxwell Scott - Misappropriation
LONGLIST Fish Short Story Prize 2012/13
348 stories longlisted
(1,560 stories submitted in total)
Turritopsis Nutricula |
Aengus Murray |
Tipping Point |
Akiho Schilz |
WINNERS AND LOSERS |
Alan Coley |
A Man of Wealth and Taste |
Alan Harrison |
Go Wild in the Country |
Alan McCormick |
The Page Three Girls |
Alan McMonagle |
No Need for Flowers |
Alan Wood |
Taken |
Alan Wood |
DOCTOR GOD |
Albert Wachtel |
Subterfuge |
Alexander Hall |
Stella Forsaken |
Alexandra O'Toole |
The Snake |
Andrew Fitzpatrick |
Dreamland |
Andrew McMahon |
Good Rubbish |
Andy Kissane |
With a smile and a wink |
Angela Blackburn |
Terry Taliban |
Annette Sills |
Parallel Lives |
Anthony Howcroft |
Grandmother's Eyes |
anthony powers |
Do you mind? |
Antoinette McCarthy |
She is Silence |
Aongus Murtagh |
Bags Groove, Take 2 |
aruna vasudevan |
L'Ortolan |
Barbara Mogerley |
A Good Job |
Barbara Tarrant |
Knife Edge |
Barbara Wren |
Linda (A Fairy Tale of Sorts) |
Barry Litherland |
Shadows |
Barry Troy |
A Singular Pursuit |
Barry Troy |
JFK Night |
Barry Troy |
Tuning |
Bennett Elliott |
Under New Management |
Bill Adelson |
Poison Hands |
Bob Oosthuizen |
The Fountain |
Bonnie Nelissen |
You are too Old for Pastels |
Breid Sibley |
13 Saint Lucifer Street |
Brendan Lawlor |
Metaphrasis |
C S Mee |
The Silencing |
Cait Atherton |
Under the Woodbox |
Carly Roberts |
Time Out |
Carol Jones |
Sticks and Stones |
Caroline Bracken |
Suck |
Caroline Grebbell |
The Hill |
Caroline Greene |
The Kate Moss Blues |
caroline Lambie |
Thorn |
caroline Lambie |
Is it so hard to say? |
Catherine Harris |
Tom's Shoes |
Catherine House |
Jim- Boy |
Catherine Watkins |
Clear Reflection |
Cathriona Slammon |
Two Falls |
cb anderson |
Finding Finnegan |
Celia Reynolds |
The Break-in |
Cerian Griffiths |
These Are The Things |
chris connolly |
katzenjammer |
chris connolly |
Eye of the beholder |
Christian Cook |
Tiny Little Things |
claire black |
That It Would Not Come |
Claire Harnett |
Somewhere In Between |
Clare Le May |
Missing Persons |
Clare Le May |
This Empty House |
Colin Burns |
ELECTRA-GLIDE IN BLUE |
Colin Watts |
A Fair Account |
Conor Keane |
The First Rains of August |
conor mcmanus |
Strawberry Picking |
Corinne Fowler |
The Fat Girl and The Octopus |
Cristina Galvin |
The Boy |
Csilla Toldy |
Bringing Him Home |
Cynthia Hyde |
Jig |
Daniel Finnegan |
Bethesda |
David Armstrong |
Get, Get Over It |
David Lewis |
And I Am The Arrow |
David Salter |
Here, Inside the Volcano |
David Strickland |
Gifted |
Dawn Lowe |
A Little Trouble with the Spirits |
Deborah Cameron |
The Workings of Things |
Declan Hannigan |
The Professional |
Dianne Hagan |
The Widower |
DOLORES WALSHE |
Red As Little Drugger's Mustang |
DOLORES WALSHE |
Sweet Night |
Doreen Duffy |
Crossing the Rip |
Dorothy Johnston |
Smartphone |
Edward Young |
Something Pretty, Something Nice |
Elaine McCluskey |
Wisewoman |
Elizabeth Kay |
A Different Way of Walking |
Elizabeth Pepper |
When We Lived on Ferry Road |
Emily Cleaver |
Sleeptalking |
Emily Sullivan |
Live where the real winds blow |
Ettie Holland |
Press Button 'A' |
Eoin Devereaux |
Dyet Martoz |
Eva Lomski |
By the Light of the Moon |
Eve Vamvas |
The Sweet Smell of Death |
Fiona Drury |
Life-Streamers |
Fleur Smithwick |
The Anatomy of a Touch |
Fleur Smithwick |
The Price of Perfection |
Frances Kenny |
Nosebleed |
Frank Cossa |
The Invisible Minaret |
Fraser Robinson |
Playing Out |
Gary Quinn |
In Space |
Gavin Weston |
Axe+Head=Dead |
George Filip |
For the love of General |
GEORGE PAVLOU |
Some Days Even the Goldfish.... |
Georgina Eddison |
Sin |
Georgina Eddison |
Yana |
Georgina Eddison |
The Night Shift |
Gerry McKeague |
Township Jazz |
Gerry McKeague |
Surfing in St Ives |
Gillian Bowman |
Last Girl Against the Wall |
Graham Tugwell |
Full of Grace |
Grainne Murphy |
The Rose Seller of St Petersburg |
Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown |
What We're Facing |
Gwen Tener |
Corporation Man |
Harold Mally |
Cows and Consolation |
Helen Christine Geoghegan |
Watermark |
Helen Newdick |
A Savage Place |
Hilary Lloyd |
Dubious Connections |
Iain Napier |
Redemption |
Ian Bowrey |
Flashing Lights |
Ian Humphreys |
An Ancient-World Excuse-Me |
Ian Madden |
Sweet Ladies of Bedminster Down |
Ian Madden |
Mr Butterfill's Misdemeanours |
Ian Madden |
The Last Resort |
Isa Moynihan |
Cafe in the Hills |
Isabel Turvey |
Candles |
Jack Timlin |
The Turnip Flower |
Jacqueline Corcoran |
One for hello, one for goodbye |
Jacqueline P Haskell |
Sweet Table |
Jamaica Baldwin |
Callbird. |
James Martyn Joyce |
Cartoon Super Girl |
Jane Seaford |
Subterranean Ghost Station Blues |
Jane Williamson |
Is It Sunday Yet? |
Janet Swinney |
Don't Flinch |
Janine Mikosza |
Jack the Hat |
Jeff Price |
Red House |
Jenni Lawson |
An Accident |
Jennifer Bailey |
'A Sense of Obligation |
Jennifer Bailey |
Olive Lovelock Decides |
Jenny Ackland |
Cardamom |
Jessica Breheny |
Suicide is Painless |
jessie cole |
The Art of Patience |
Jill Kathryn Wilson |
Knuckle Deep |
Jim Brennan |
A Godless Prayer for the Feet |
Jo Ely |
I Long 2B Close 2U |
Joanna Bury |
Solid Orange Sea |
Joanna Campbell |
She Gave Me Back the City |
Jody Callahan |
July, 1930 |
Joe Golombek, Jr. |
Big Boned Miracle |
John Biggs |
Lashkar-Gar |
John de Holland |
A Stroke of Genius |
John Karter |
THE LEMON WOOD BOW |
JOHN MCCABE |
The Ascension of Ignatious Gilhooley |
John-Patrick Bell |
Bear Country Blues |
John Van Kirk |
Into The Water |
John-Randolph Thornton |
There Was Nothing Else To Do |
Jonathan Carr |
Rest Home |
Jonathan Maas |
What's Expected |
Jonathan McCabe |
Laughing Man |
Jonathan Priest |
I see no ships |
Jude Brown |
The Big Blue |
Jude Brown |
The Caravan |
Jude Higgins |
What is a Faye Carlson? |
Julia Breens |
Through the Window |
Juliana Feaver |
Just Another Nothing Day |
Julie Hetherington |
A Wild Mannered Country |
Julie Kearney |
Places We Go |
julie-ann rowell |
Who Are You Looking At, Medusa? |
Juliette Adair |
Barn |
June Andrews |
Origins |
Karen Ashe |
The Ladies of Kensington Gore |
Karen Haggarty |
Dirty Little Secret |
Karen Hollands |
The Pretend Lake |
Karen Stevens |
The Boy in the Dirty Trousers |
Kate Forlong |
Shades of Deficit |
kathy mansfield |
In the name of the cross we bear |
katya maddison |
A Terrible Business |
katya maddison |
The Courier |
Keith Spragg |
The Worst Night |
Kelly Kavanaugh |
Gold Cross |
Kieran Bates |
In Their Song |
Kirstin Zhang |
Behind the Open Windows |
Kristen-Paige Madonia |
Death Waits for Picasso |
Kristina Amadeus |
One Grey, please - with Stinkies |
Kristina Amadeus |
The 9th Story |
Lara-Jo Taylor |
Bosphorus Blues |
Laura McVeigh |
Arnold's Emporium of Good Ideas |
Laura McVeigh |
Holy Words |
Laurie Jacobs |
Control Alt Delete |
Laurie Steed |
The One that Got Away |
Lea Scott |
Ordinary Time |
Lee Berg |
Scattered Jack |
Lee Williams |
An Errant Light |
Leona Cully |
Oramorph |
Lesley Gray |
Audition |
Leslie Rodd |
Young Boat People |
Liam O'Reilly |
Jacaranda |
Linda Brucesmith |
The Lost Door |
Lindsay Fisher |
Small |
Lisa Harding |
06:54 – 09:42hrs |
Lisa Smithies |
The Misunderstood Curse of Diego Villarreal |
Liz Tucker |
The Zealot Plays King's Cup |
Lolita De Palma |
A Common Odor |
Louise Marburg |
Finishing |
Lucas Jacob |
Positional Asphyxia |
Lucy Apps |
Misappropriation |
Lucy Maxwell Scott |
Someone is screaming |
Lucy Maxwell Scott |
Appetites |
Maggie Ling |
Rambutan! |
Mai Nardone |
Rambutan! |
Mai Nardone |
Out Along Lea |
Marjorie Kennedy |
Prodigal |
Marjorie Kennedy |
Raptor |
Marjorie Kennedy |
HUNTING |
Marjorie Kennedy |
The Beach |
Mark Arnold |
Modern Love |
Mark Arnold |
Stockholm |
Mark Arnold |
THE GOOD BROTHER |
Mark Gallacher |
BROKEN WINDOW |
Mark Gallacher |
Frank and the Fly |
Mark Liddington |
Butcher's Creek |
Mark Smith |
Found Dead |
Mary Dixon |
VERMILION |
Mary O'Shea |
Epiphany |
Mary Shiel |
Loving Things |
Mary-Anne Bartlett |
Red Belly Black |
Mary-Ellen Stringer |
The Animals Tradition |
Matthew Pitt |
The Last Real Emergency |
Maurice Greenberg |
In the Hammam |
McKay McFadden |
Dark and Light |
Meg Green |
Fill the Dark |
Meghan Daniels |
This is a Home Watch Area |
Melanie Amri |
Nachman's Christmas |
Melinda Mullins |
GUARDING DEMONS |
MICHAEL ALEXANDER |
Every Monkey has his Moment |
Michael Dugdale |
I touched Justin Bieber |
Michael Marett-Crosby |
Noting Nothing |
Michael Naghten Shanks |
Stillwater Fishing |
michelle brock |
Je Parle Francais |
Michelle Scorziello |
Surface Tension |
Mike Murray |
Slipping Into the Gene Pool |
Mike Tuohy |
Co-Pilot |
Miles Salter |
The Flag Burning |
Moharem El Gihani |
Thunderhead |
Monica Garvey |
The Fish |
Nadia Ibrashi |
Dead Phone |
Natalka Burian |
We Are Making a New World |
Nathan O'Donnell |
The Writer and the Painter |
Nathan Senge |
Dogfish |
Niamh Hamill |
The Street That Said No |
Nicholas Hancock |
Train to Kings Cross |
Nick Leach |
The American Farmer |
Nick Walsh |
Last Night in Cleary |
Nicole Walsh |
THE FORBIDDEN ROCK |
nina milton |
PENUMBRA |
NINA RAPI |
ARIS |
NINA RAPI |
Gamewidow |
Niyati Keni |
Parents |
Noel King |
Oct. 29, 2012, 7:29 a.m. |
Nov. 12, 2012, 11:23 a.m. |
The Backpacker |
Oana Aristide |
Voyeurs |
Paddy Doherty |
Harold's Egg |
Pam Poole |
Maud Gonne |
Patricia Begley |
If All The World Were Mine |
Patricia Brieschke |
Just Dessert |
Patricia Fenn |
Keep Talking, Son |
Patricia Fenn |
The Forty Club |
patricia jackson |
Foundlings |
Paul Currion |
The Citadel |
Paul David Adkin |
At The Vanishing Lake |
Paul McMichael |
Better the Devil |
Paula Fusco |
In the Frame |
Penny Simpson |
Monkey |
Peter Howard |
One night in Ballinamore |
Peter Murphy |
Freddie Mercury's Anniversary |
Phyl Herbert |
Something to Regret in the Morning |
Philip Brewster |
The Dream |
Phyllis Mahfoud |
A Waste of Space |
Phyllis Mahfoud |
The Other Ones |
Pippa Gaubert |
The Time Garden |
Pippa Gaubert |
The Seal Wife |
Polis Loizou |
The End and the Beginning of Jason Wilkins |
Rachel Elliott |
The Unforeseeable Future |
Rajith Savanadasa |
Bar Girl |
Rebecca Hayman |
Noticing Pigeon Feathers |
Rebecca Swirsky |
The Five Truths of Manhood |
Rebekah Clarkson |
Too Much Of Nothing |
Reece Choules |
Wasteland of the Free |
Renesh Lakhan |
The Homecoming |
Rhys Timson |
Say Hello to Ravi |
Richard Bond |
Man of the House |
Richard Purcell |
Downpour |
Richard Scarsbrook |
The Tiger Cow |
Robert Dailey |
Baggage Claim |
Robert Saul |
Theft of Services |
Robin Samu |
London |
Rona May Bryan |
Disappearer |
Ronan Carton |
Downpour |
Ronan Lucy |
Degrees Of Separation |
Rosemary Dun |
A Dish Best Served Cold |
Rosie Cowan |
A Different Perspective |
Rosie Cowan |
Tender to the Shore |
Rupert Jenkins |
Hyacinth and Me |
Ruth Davis |
The Right Place |
Ruth Hayhurst |
Lost |
Ryan Power |
Blood |
Saffron Marchant |
Staring Match |
Safia Shah |
They Will Love Me Again |
Saleem Haddad |
The Airstream |
Sallie Bingham |
That will be an end to it |
Sally Bramley |
The Nut Machine |
Sally Franicevich |
9th and Pine, 1989 |
Sam Sudar |
The Beauty of the Word Bloom |
Sam Sudar |
The Life of a House |
Sam Sudar |
Fandango |
sandra bordigoni |
Voices at Dark |
Scott Kauffman |
Luck Can Be Like a Woman |
Scott Kauffman |
Leave it to Bertie |
Sean McCann |
Orient Point Light |
Sheila MacAvoy |
The Night Song |
Sid Tafler |
Fred's Ma |
Sinead Hamill |
Mortal Sins |
sinead roarty |
Baba Borka |
Sofia Stambolieva |
EASY MEAT |
Stan Myers |
Partitions |
Stephanie Scott |
The driver |
Stephen Dineen |
The feeling of rightness |
Stephen Flanagan |
The Alpha Male |
Steve Finan |
Eva's Forearm |
Steve Walsh |
Escape |
Stewart Legg |
At the Turning of the Tide |
Stuart Tallack |
I Think I'm Going to Die Today |
Susan Arscott |
Lillian Walsh |
Susan Daniels |
Two Views Through the Looking Glass |
Susan Lynch |
The house of the fallen women |
Suzanne O'Sullivan |
Heaven Came Down |
Talya Boerner |
Aswim |
Thomas Delaney |
A Little Bread and Water |
Thomas Froese |
Atlantic Blue |
Tim Rowe |
Safi |
Toby Vaughan |
SNOW |
Tom Murray |
Birthday Boy |
Tony Linkson |
A Skilled Practitioner |
Valerie Ryan |
And It Begins |
Vic Heath |
Break In Attempt No. 1 |
Victoria Guest |
Crooked Arc |
Wayne O'Keeffe |
The Other Room |
Wendy Brandmark |
I Eat People |
Will Davis |
The Trade |
wolfgang eulitz |
K-Holing |
Xanthi Barker |
Horse |
Yoshino Funaki |
Teppoudama; A Bullet |
Yuki Ogura |
SHORTLIST Fish Short Story Prize 2012/13
89 stories shortlisted
(1,560 stories submitted in total)
Go Wild in the Country |
Alan McCormick |
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DOCTOR GOD |
Albert Wachtel |
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JFK Night |
Barry Troy |
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13 Saint Lucifer Street |
Brendan Lawlor |
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The Silencing |
Cait Atherton |
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Under the Woodbox |
Carly Roberts |
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Is it so hard to say? |
Catherine Harris |
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Two Falls |
cb anderson |
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Finding Finnegan |
Celia Reynolds |
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katzenjammer |
chris connolly |
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Missing Persons |
Clare Le May |
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This Empty House |
Colin Burns |
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The First Rains of August |
Conor Mc Manus |
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Jig |
Daniel Finnegan |
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Get, Get Over It |
David Lewis |
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Here, Inside the Volcano |
David Strickland |
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A Little Trouble with the Spirits |
Deborah Cameron |
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The Workings of Things |
Declan Hannigan |
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Red As Little Drugger's Mustang |
DOLORES WALSHE |
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Sweet Night |
Doreen Duffy |
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Smartphone |
Edward Young |
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Something Pretty, Something Nice |
Elaine McCluskey |
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Live where the real winds blow |
Ettie Holland |
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Press Button 'A' |
Eoin Devereaux |
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By the Light of the Moon |
Eve Vamvas |
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The Anatomy of a Touch |
Fleur Smithwick |
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Full of Grace |
Grainne Murphy |
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The Rose Seller of St Petersburg |
Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown |
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What We're Facing |
Gwen Tener |
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Corporation Man |
Harold Mally |
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Watermark |
Helen Newdick |
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Flashing Lights |
Ian Humphreys |
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One for hello, one for goodbye |
Jacqueline P Haskell |
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Jack the Hat |
Jeff Price |
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Red House |
Jenni Lawson |
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'A Sense of Obligation |
Jennifer Bailey |
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Cardamom |
Jessica Breheny |
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The Art of Patience |
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A Godless Prayer for the Feet |
Jo Ely |
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THE LEMON WOOD BOW |
JOHN MCCABE |
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The Big Blue |
Jude Brown |
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What is a Faye Carlson? |
Julia Breens |
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Origins |
Karen Ashe |
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A Terrible Business |
katya maddison |
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In Their Song |
Kirstin Zhang |
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Death Waits for Picasso |
Kristina Amadeus |
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One Grey, please - with Stinkies |
Kristina Amadeus |
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An Errant Light |
Leona Cully |
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Audition |
Leslie Rodd |
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Misappropriation |
Lucy Maxwell Scott |
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Someone is screaming |
Lucy Maxwell Scott |
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Stockholm |
Mark Arnold |
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THE GOOD BROTHER |
Mark Gallacher |
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BROKEN WINDOW |
Mark Gallacher |
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VERMILION |
Mary O'Shea |
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The Last Real Emergency |
Maurice Greenberg |
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Nachman's Christmas |
Melinda Mullins |
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Every Monkey has his Moment |
Michael Dugdale |
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Noting Nothing |
Michael Naghten Shanks |
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The Flag Burning |
Moharem El Gihani |
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Thunderhead |
Monica Garvey |
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Dogfish |
Niamh Hamill |
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Gamewidow |
Niyati Keni |
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At The Vanishing Lake |
Paul McMichael |
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In the Frame |
Penny Simpson |
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Monkey |
Peter Howard |
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A Waste of Space |
Phyllis Mahfoud |
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The End and the Beginning of Jason Wilkins |
Rachel Elliott |
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The Unforeseeable Future |
Rajith Savanadasa |
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Noticing Pigeon Feathers |
Rebecca Swirsky |
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The Five Truths of Manhood |
Rebekah Clarkson |
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Say Hello to Ravi |
Richard Bond |
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Downpour |
Richard Scarsbrook |
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Baggage Claim |
Robert Saul |
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Theft of Services |
Robin Samu |
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Downpour |
Ronan Lucy |
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Hyacinth and Me |
Ruth Davis |
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They Will Love Me Again |
Saleem Haddad |
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The Nut Machine |
Sally Franicevich |
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The Life of a House |
Sam Sudar |
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Partitions |
Stephanie Scott |
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The Alpha Male |
Steve Finan |
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Eva's Forearm |
Steve Walsh |
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Escape |
Stewart Legg |
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At the Turning of the Tide |
Stuart Tallack |
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A Skilled Practitioner |
Valerie Ryan |
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Break In Attempt No. 1 |
Victoria Guest |
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The Other Room |
Wendy Brandmark |
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The Trade |
wolfgang eulitz |
SHORT MEMOIR PRIZE 2013 Longlist - Shortlist - Winners
LONGLIST Fish Short Memoir Prize 2013
235 memoirs longlisted
(810 memoirs submitted in total)
The Remorse of Heroes |
AE Devlin |
Measuring Up |
Aileen Hunt |
ADAM BURN |
Alan McCormick |
The Sea-Bright Child |
Alison Walker |
The Fraud |
Allison Doyle |
Lapsed |
amy klein |
Origins |
Andrea Rosenhaft |
World Without End |
Angela Finn |
Ripples |
Angela Wray |
The Last Ace |
Anne Wright |
The Innocents |
Annie Kilmartin |
Fire! |
Art Lester |
TREACLE & ME |
Art Rogers |
LAST DAY ON EARTH - MEMORIES OF MY FATHER |
Barb Hunt |
APPLES IN THE CELLAR OF DREAD AND DESIRE |
Barbara Knott |
The Scarlet Dictionary |
Barbara Lorna Hudson |
Knowing Heinrich |
Barbara Mogerley |
When Grocer Jack Turned Pirate |
Bea Davenport |
Have you got a boyfriend? |
Beata Anna Fijalkowska |
The System |
Bella Kemble |
A Trick On Daddy |
Bernardino Marcelo |
A Memorable Holiday - A King, Cads and Curls |
Beryl Trebble |
Moments |
Beth Grosart |
Misty Memoires |
Bette Guy |
The Red Dress |
Bo Niles |
The Gift |
Bo Niles |
The Death Of Ace |
Brad Geyer |
My great grandfather and the story of the Nine Irons |
Breda Joyce |
My Father |
Bruce Stirling |
Julie |
Carolyn Pearce |
North Cliff |
Cassandra Keen |
Tasting Brick |
Cassandra Keen |
Ruins |
cecile berberat |
Some Stories Need Straight Telling |
Chandra Masoliver |
Cynic |
Chris RB Fay |
Perfect |
Christine Hale |
I TOLD YOU SO, I TOLD YOU SO |
CHRISTINE WEST |
Space - Time |
claire hernandez |
Hugs |
Clare Doran |
Serenade in Squalls |
Courtney Zoffness |
There Are Spiders Inside |
Cynthia Hyde |
The Brightest Star |
Cynthia Kane |
Tiffany 34 |
Daisy-Mae Perkins |
My Thing: A Year in Psychosis |
Daniel Julian |
LEAVING THE CITY BEHIND |
Daphne Sola |
Arty and the train |
David David |
A drop of peace |
David Lynch |
Whistling round the town |
deborah murrish |
The Mermaid. |
deborah murrish |
To Be Honest |
Declan Hurley |
Mum in Memory |
Denise Blake |
A Meditation on the Existential Threat of Violence Brought Home |
Dermot O'Lynn |
How We Each See It |
Diane Dolphin |
Moving on. |
Dolores McCloskey |
An Indian Woman's Hair |
Donna Ward |
Caribbean time |
Dordi Andersen |
Tarantulas, Southern Comfort, a Place to Shut My Eyes |
Dorene O'Brien |
JUMPY JEWISH FEMALE SEEKS... |
DORIS FERLEGER |
Feral |
Dwayne Magee |
Mr. Bailey |
E. L. Harris |
What It Is Like In Words |
e.g. Jönsson |
A DAY OUT |
Edra Ziesk |
The Rim. |
Edward Smothers |
Santa Fe Stories |
Eileen Cunniffe |
Ashes |
Elisabeth Winkler |
Parking Lot |
Ellen Ezorsky |
No One Plays Boxing |
Emily Bullock |
THE AUCTION |
Eoin Devereux |
When a Heart has no Ears |
Erin Altrama |
Storykeepers |
Erin Byrne |
Any Man's Child |
Euan Stuart |
The Ringmaster and the Tattooed Girl |
Eufemia Fantetti |
Golfball in the Sun |
Federay Holmes |
Sister Awake! |
Fiona Ross |
The Typewriter |
Fionnuala Enright |
BLOOD SUCKERS |
Frances Kenny |
The Black Suit |
Frank O'Shea |
The Playground |
gabi burman |
Knowing |
Gabi MacEwan |
First Day |
Gail Anderson |
Payne Whitney, NYC 1972 |
Gail Waldstein |
There But For The Grace |
gavin vance |
Home |
Gaylene Carbis |
Tremor '71 |
Geraldine Creed |
When They're Laughing at You |
Gererdene Gibbons |
Season Of The Witch |
Gillian Haigh |
Summer in amongst long grasses |
Gina Challen |
All Hat & No Cattle |
Hazel Larkin |
How To Leave Your Husband (When You Know You Should) |
Hazel Larkin |
advanced systems... |
Helen Geoghegan |
The Trouble with Lying Is ... |
Honor Somerset |
Silence |
Hugh Kiernan |
In for the ride |
Ilaria Mirabile |
Knock on Effects of Dad's Wisdom |
Iris Woodford |
Leon |
James Mulkerns |
'Some brightness to hold in trust' |
Jane Buekett |
a slice of me in '63 |
Jane Fraser |
Road Scholars |
Jane Guill |
Watching Lucy In the Fall |
Jane Harrington |
NO DECENT GIRL |
JANE HAYWARD |
Dandelions |
Jane Norris |
Late but not too late |
Jane Seaford |
A Life of Contrasts |
Janette Coombes |
Voice |
jeanne moore |
Unfathomable |
Jenny Godbeer |
Mzungu on the Rebel Road |
Jesse Thornburg |
Dumb-Dumb's Revenge |
Jim Brennan |
Seas |
Joan Kerr |
Rowton House and the Easter CND Rally |
Johnny Carr |
Cooper |
Jones Irwin |
The Working Life Of A Headcase |
Jordan Adams |
Gypsies and Tramps |
Judi Blaze |
Full Circle |
Judith OConnor |
World Views |
Judith OConnor |
Every Picture Tells a Story |
judith pickle |
Between Conflict and Desire: A Woman Now |
Julie Fisher |
Spinifex Baby |
karen dermer |
The Fighter of Notthinghill Gate |
karen hunt |
My Father, the Magician |
Katherine Palmer |
I BUILD A DREAM |
Kathleen June |
Belated Urgency |
Kathleen Langstroth |
Postcards from the Replacement Bus |
Kati Bumbera |
First Cut |
Ken Tracey |
Velvet |
Kieran Bates |
The View From Under the Table |
Kristin Gleeson |
Hello, Goodbye |
Kristina Branch |
If you gave me your life I would lose it |
Kristine Rothbury |
Letters From Paradise |
kristine simelda |
Jack |
Laura Creber |
The Story About The Cat |
Laura Fanning |
Six Secrets |
Lee MURRAY |
Hide on Holly |
Leonard McDonnell |
Four and Three Quarters |
Lesley Quayle |
My Turn |
Lily White |
Doctors |
Linda Boroff |
The Right to Bear Arms |
Linda Cutting |
Detention |
Lori Schafer |
Ashore |
Luellen Fletcher |
SUITED |
luft man |
The Summer of Bicycles and Rickshaws |
Makarand Nalgirkar |
LOVE OUTLASTS MEMORY |
Mal King |
Lessons Learned |
mandarama |
Birth |
Margaret Grundstein |
Anointed |
Margo Barnes |
Memory Pocket |
Mariad Whisker |
Game Plan |
Marie Curran |
Boston Tattoo |
Marie Gethins |
Planespotting by the Castle |
Mark Blackburn |
A Lifetime in One Day |
Mark Brom |
The Spirit of the Stones |
Martin Cromie |
Memoir of an Unknown Man |
Martin Leyland |
Blue Fins |
Martin Raim |
The Census |
Mary Ann Williams |
The Pink Door |
Mary Halpin |
Zappatos y Regalos |
Mary Reed |
Tea Leaves |
Maude Dunn |
Luscus |
Maureen Boyle |
Beaten path |
Melanie Veenstra |
Surprise |
Mia Doring |
And Johnny Ray Cried |
michael collins |
A Term at St Hughes |
Michael Coutts |
Not My Life |
Michael Li Cha Zi |
Two Beer Drive |
Michele Lovell |
Once More With Feeling |
michelle brock |
Some Kind of Magic |
Mike Carson |
Just One of the Guys |
Mike Gadell |
An Adoption Tale |
Misty Mathis |
Leaving |
Mo Kermode |
Cape Cod, God, and a Minivan |
Moshe Schulman |
Names |
Nan Pokerwinski |
Kritios Boy |
Nancy Ludmerer |
Hell Run |
Niamh O'Sullivan |
Erotomaniac |
Nick Leach |
Ward S4 |
Nicki Heinen |
St Anne's |
Nicki Heinen |
Sunday Afternoons With Ian. |
Nicola Pearson |
Dorchester Park. Drumming our way to the future. |
Orla McAlinden |
Prodigal Daughter |
Pat Brett |
Broadening My Horizons |
Patricia Smith |
I am a Phoenix |
Patricia Whittingham |
Kings Over All Who Are Proud |
Paul McGranaghan |
Top Drawer |
Paul Michel |
The hyacinth under the stairs |
paula cunningham |
WINTER BIRDS |
Pauline Holdstock |
Menopausal Puberty |
Peter Bergman |
Nothing Changes |
Phyllida Clarke |
Behind the Wallpaper |
Phyllis Richardson |
Then and Now |
Pip Newling |
Looking Back |
R Kinnish |
Like The Flower |
Rachelle Hicks |
Enduring Passion |
Riba Taylor |
Drifting Along |
Robert Headley |
Schr-r-r-r |
robert mason |
A Servant to Servants |
Roberta George |
The Tear Tree |
Robin Mcfarland |
Heart |
Robyn Thomas |
Duck paté and the First Law of Thermodynamics. |
Roger Lightfoot |
Threads of Inheritance |
Rosalie Yoakam |
The Journey |
Rosalind Davies |
Learning to Dress my Mother |
Rosemary Jones |
Gillyflower |
Rosie Ford |
Things Can Get Lost |
Rosie Jackson |
Disentangling. |
rueyn |
A Letter from My Mother. |
rueyn |
Words |
Saffron Marchant |
Descent |
Saffron Marchant |
Collapse |
Saffron Marchant |
Weighty Issues |
Sarah Jones |
The Witches' Curse |
Sarah Line Letellier |
Honor Killing |
Savi Fitch |
A Place For Everything |
Sean Hardie |
Heroes |
Sheila Llewellyn |
All Those Promises, Sweetly Sung |
Shereen Pandit |
Customs Declarations |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
Dreams are Only Dreams |
Stephanie Allen Early |
Garage Doors |
Stephanie Nugent |
Willesden 1967 |
Stephen Pullman |
Taming Tigers |
stephie hart |
The Trouble with Harry |
Sue Cartledge |
Smog |
Susan Davis |
The Visit |
Susan DuMond |
BIG YELLOW TAXI |
Susanna Clayson |
Land of Shannon |
Suzanne Van Atten |
The Diary of a Breakup |
Svetlana Kortchik |
Yesteryears' Greener Grass |
Terence Hadert |
Snapshots of a Cold War Childhood |
Terri Favro |
The Present from America |
Terry Lynch |
The Jesus in the Purple Jacket |
Tim Lash |
Seasons in the sun |
Tish McPhilemy |
Martha |
TOM FOX |
Remembering Nan |
Tracy Lloyd |
For You, Dad, You |
William Gee |
Love in a Time of War |
Winsome La ne |
Shilling Shenanigans |
wolfgang eulitz |
Days When |
Zara Katharine |
SHORTLIST Fish Short Memoir Prize 2013
81 memoirs shortlisted
(810 memoirs submitted in total)
Measuring Up |
Aileen Hunt |
The Sea-Bright Child |
Alison Walker |
Lapsed |
amy klein |
Origins |
Andrea Rosenhaft |
World Without End |
Angela Finn |
Ripples |
Angela Wray |
Fire! |
Art Lester |
APPLES IN THE CELLAR OF DREAD AND DESIRE |
Barbara Knott |
Moments |
Beth Grosart |
The Gift |
Bo Niles |
Julie |
Carolyn Pearce |
Cynic |
Chris RB Fay |
Space - Time |
claire hernandez |
Serenade in Squalls |
Courtney Zoffness |
There Are Spiders Inside |
Cynthia Hyde |
LEAVING THE CITY BEHIND |
Daphne Sola |
A drop of peace |
David Lynch |
The Mermaid. |
deborah murrish |
A Meditation on the Existential Threat of Violence Brought Home |
Dermot O'Lynn |
How We Each See It |
Diane Dolphin |
Moving on. |
Dolores McCloskey |
An Indian Woman's Hair |
Donna Ward |
Tarantulas, Southern Comfort, a Place to Shut My Eyes |
Dorene O'Brien |
JUMPY JEWISH FEMALE SEEKS... |
DORIS FERLEGER |
Feral |
Dwayne Magee |
What It Is Like In Words |
e.g. Jönsson |
Ashes |
Elisabeth Winkler |
No One Plays Boxing |
Emily Bullock |
Golfball in the Sun |
Federay Holmes |
The Typewriter |
Fionnuala Enright |
BLOOD SUCKERS |
Frances Kenny |
First Day |
Gail Anderson |
Payne Whitney, NYC 1972 |
Gail Waldstein |
There But For The Grace |
gavin vance |
advanced systems... |
Helen Geoghegan |
Knock on Effects of Dad's Wisdom |
Iris Woodford |
'Some brightness to hold in trust' |
Jane Buekett |
NO DECENT GIRL |
JANE HAYWARD |
Mzungu on the Rebel Road |
Jesse Thornburg |
Seas |
Joan Kerr |
Every Picture Tells a Story |
judith pickle |
My Father, the Magician |
Katherine Palmer |
Belated Urgency |
Kathleen Langstroth |
Velvet |
Kieran Bates |
The View From Under the Table |
Kristin Gleeson |
Jack |
Laura Creber |
The Story About The Cat |
Laura Fanning |
Hide on Holly |
Leonard McDonnell |
Four and Three Quarters |
Lesley Quayle |
Memory Pocket |
Mariad Whisker |
Boston Tattoo |
Marie Gethins |
Luscus |
Maureen Boyle |
And Johnny Ray Cried |
michael collins |
Not My Life |
Michael Li Cha Zi |
Once More With Feeling |
michelle brock |
Some Kind of Magic |
Mike Carson |
Just One of the Guys |
Mike Gadell |
Hell Run |
Niamh O'Sullivan |
Erotomaniac |
Nick Leach |
St Anne's |
Nicki Heinen |
Dorchester Park. Drumming our way to the future. |
Orla McAlinden |
Top Drawer |
Paul Michel |
The hyacinth under the stairs |
paula cunningham |
Nothing Changes |
Phyllida Clarke |
Then and Now |
Pip Newling |
Looking Back |
R Kinnish |
Schr-r-r-r |
robert mason |
A Servant to Servants |
Roberta George |
Duck paté and the First Law of Thermodynamics. |
Roger Lightfoot |
Learning to Dress my Mother |
Rosemary Jones |
Things Can Get Lost |
Rosie Jackson |
A Letter from My Mother. |
rueyn |
Collapse |
Saffron Marchant |
Weighty Issues |
Sarah Jones |
A Place For Everything |
Sean Hardie |
Heroes |
Sheila Llewellyn |
Taming Tigers |
stephie hart |
The Visit |
Susan DuMond |
Snapshots of a Cold War Childhood |
Terri Favro |
The Present from America |
Terry Lynch |
The Jesus in the Purple Jacket |
Tim Lash |
WINNERS Fish Short Memoir Prize 2013
Judge, Molly McCloskey, has chosen the following memoirs to be published in the 2013 Fish Anthology.
Winner - Luscus by Maureen Boyle
This is a memoir in which the author strikes a wonderful balance between absolute control of her material and the achievement of a lightness and fluidity, as though the writing of it were happening easily and naturally; in fact it’s a highly crafted piece of writing. The author tells of losing an eye in a childhood accident; of the man who made her the succession of eyes that, as she grew, replaced her own; and of the world of doctors’ offices, with their wooden trays of eyes. The prose is restrained and unshowy and yet moves with a quiet power; with a wonderful concreteness, it roots us in the experience. The ending, about so much more than the narrator, the doctor, or the story at hand, moved me to tears.
2 – Collapse by Saffron Marchant
This memoir tracks the psychological unspooling of a senior in a law firm dealing with high finance. Style and content are perfectly matched – the writing is pacy and sharp, and judders along, like the world depicted. There are great images that come out of nowhere and aren’t made a fuss of. As an account of that moment when a life turns, it’s compelling and extremely well written.
3 - World Without End by Angela Finn
This is a brave and very carefully crafted account of a topic little talked about – the emotional aftermath of a pregnancy termination. There is great sadness, and a terrible ache, suffusing this piece, but it is contained and shaped in carefully crafted prose. The author has been disciplined in what she has chosen to include and what she has omitted, and it is this process of selection, wisely carried out, that can give a piece of memoir such power. This is not the sort of piece that is easy to write without lapsing into judgement or sentimentality, but the author has done it, producing a searing piece of writing.
Honorary Mentions
Ashes by Elisabeth Winkler
Then and Now by Pip Newling
What it is Like in Words by e.g. Jönsson
The Visit by Susan DuMond
Dorchester Park, Drumming Our Way to the Future by Orla McAlinden
The Gift by Bo Niles
Spaghetti a Cacio e Pepe by Barry Troy
FLASH FICTION PRIZE 2013 Longlist - Shortlist - Winners
LONGLIST Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2013
317 flash stories longlisted
(1,407 submitted in total)
Short Time |
adrienne hurgeton |
The Sensei |
Agnes Van Zyl-Pandur |
A Girl and a Vineyard are Hard to Guard |
Agnes Van Zyl-Pandur |
Siren Song. |
Alan Keogh |
Silence |
Alex Bruty |
Falling Down |
Alexandra Grey |
Two Birds, One Stone |
Alexandria Radogna |
On the Buses |
Alice Nuttall |
Kelp |
Alicia Bowes |
The Boy with Clown Feet |
Alison Clibbens |
Clown |
Amanda O'Callaghan |
Mama, I Was Nine |
Amber Bruce |
TUNDRA |
Amy Louise Meguira |
The Linoleum Man |
Andrea Davies |
Secret Maneouvres |
Andrea Hughes |
Bed Head |
Andrea Hughes |
Elements of a Truncated Genealogy |
Angela Rojter |
Elements of a Truncated Genealogy |
Angela Rojter |
The Intruder |
Ann Groves |
Nothing to declare |
Anne-Marie Hoeve |
Immaculate |
Anne-Marie Hoeve |
Gourmet Grub |
Annette Renner |
On Prestatyn Sands |
Annie Kilmartin |
Space |
Anniken Blomberg |
Twitch Switch |
anthony powers |
house afire |
Ashley Kunsa |
Phoenix |
Ashley Zhou |
Clean |
Averil Meehan |
LOSS |
Barbara Bridger |
Pea in a Pod |
Barbara Unkovic |
Knock, knock |
Barbara Unkovic |
The Long Wait |
Barbara Unkovic |
All Tangled Up |
Barry North |
LEOPARD |
Beda HIggins |
Excuse me |
Bev Clark |
Bruised Legs |
Bev Smith |
The Cellist |
Bina Shah |
Lucky |
Bob Thurber |
The tin |
Bonny Westmore |
Spring feeling |
Bonny Westmore |
Banks ? ... No Thanks |
Breda Nathan |
GAIA |
Brian Luby |
GAIA |
Brian Luby |
GAIA |
Brian Luby |
Going Home |
Bridget O'Hanlon |
Clouds |
Bronwen Griffiths |
The Great Debate |
Bruce Stirling |
The Duel |
Bryan Collins |
Bodied |
Caedra Scott-Flaherty |
Week Six |
Caitlin O'Connell |
Modern Perceptions |
Carlie Lee |
Pierced |
Carmel Lillis |
The wooden spoon |
carmela chaill |
Ruminant |
Carol Caffrey |
Requiem for a Risen King (Who Spies the Globe Theatre) |
Caroline Greene |
So, I get this voicemail from the wife. |
Cassie Gonzales |
Hoarse Chesnut |
Cat Totty |
Traffic |
Catherine Arra |
First Communion |
Catherine Hannken |
Elmina |
Catherine Watkins |
Detoxification |
Cathriona Slammon |
The Tutor |
Cathy Lennon |
Aftermath |
Cathy Leonard |
Clearing Hurdles |
Christina Eagles |
The Club |
Christina Sanders |
Attack on Central City |
Christopher Allen |
The Mercy of a Stranger |
Ciara Ryan Harte |
Rocky |
Claire Brown |
Kaboom! |
Colin Hopkins |
Old School |
Colin Watts |
Spaghetti and Meat Balls |
Colin Watts |
Getting the Wires Crossed |
Cynthia Hyde |
Blanc Bling |
Cynthia Hyde |
High Impact/Low Probability |
Dale Ritterbusch |
My Shoes |
Daniel Smith |
Resurrection |
Danielle McLaughlin |
"Keeper of the Gloom" |
David Bayless |
Debts |
David Fanthorpe |
The Cop and the Kid |
David Hardy |
CHANNEL 566 |
David Lipowski |
Unsaid |
David McGrath |
They're On Your Head, Stupid |
David Salter |
Best Taken With a Pinch of Salt |
Dawn Anderson |
The Gathering |
Dawn Lowe |
Human Jam |
Dean Poland |
Virtue |
Deanna Ludwin |
Actions |
Deborah Todd |
Patty Walsh 1921-1985 |
Dennis Pells |
Shoe, shoe, shoe recurring |
Don Wells |
The Man and the Moon |
Dor Tabi |
Birth: Truth-Telling |
E.M. Killaley |
Birds in the Sky |
E.M. Killaley |
Flying |
Elaine Donnelly |
Redundancy |
Elinor Lobban |
Into the Hornets' Nest |
Elisheva Stanton |
Lenten Sacrifice |
eliza homan |
Flying Steerage |
Elizabeth Simpson |
Stairs |
Ellen Barr |
Mirror Cuts |
Ellen Kelly |
An Unusual Morning |
Emilia Rudzinska |
Misadventure |
Emily Pease |
Birthday |
Emily Pease |
Hog Killing |
Emily Pease |
Now I Know Hector |
Emma Ignaszewski |
Status Update |
Emma Lindsay |
Badger |
Emmaleene Leahy |
Deeply Regretted |
Eoin Devereux |
SCRUFF |
Eric Weber |
And Then Nothing |
Erik Lofroth |
Anxious Moments |
Esme Hillis |
Letters to Santa |
Esther Newton |
Look back |
Eva Holland |
Improper use |
Eva Holland |
Memory in Morning |
Evan Daly |
The Small Stuff |
Fiona Carey |
IN A POCKET |
Fiona Clark Echlin |
View From the Bridge |
Fiona Drury |
The Tax Collector |
Fiona Whyte |
Moose |
Fiora Elbers-tibbitts |
Where's the last stop? |
Frances Keane |
The Cat's Meow |
Frances Kenny |
TOUGH to LOVE |
Frances Kenny |
Samuel's Cup |
Frances Spies |
Livelong |
Franco Alonso |
Scanned |
Franco Alonso |
Within a Whisker |
Frank Woods |
Naked Truth |
Frank Woods |
Now Hear the Word of the Lord |
Frank Woods |
I'm a celebrity gladiator; Get me out of the arena |
Gareth Wood |
Chance Corner |
Gavin Eyers |
Champagne |
Geraldine Clarkson |
Union |
Geraldine Clarkson |
The Ferryman's Wife |
George Keithley |
Malicious Intent |
Gerry Norton |
Autumn |
Gillian Haigh |
Battle |
Gillian Haigh |
New rules |
Gregory Jackson |
There for the races |
Hannah Shepard |
Accounting Error |
Harold m |
Famished |
Heather Herrman |
Tipping-Point |
Helen Holmes |
The Last Tooth |
Henrietta McKervey |
Oldie |
Herbert DaCosta |
One Last Family Tradition |
Herbert Lindee |
Number Five |
Holly Bruce |
Escape Velocity |
Ian Jones |
A perfect couple |
Ilaria Mirabile |
London Blue |
iris ansell |
The Model Ship |
Isabel Roper |
Lunch in the library |
islwyn williams |
Bullyboys |
islwyn williams |
The Performance |
J. Kirsch |
His Perfect Planet |
Jack Timlin |
Flash Gordon vs Herr Death |
Jacqueline Henry |
Flurry |
Jacqueline Winn |
A Long Distance Affair |
Jacqueline Winn |
Jack |
Jacqui Halpin |
Her day |
Jamie Walters |
The Sermon |
Jane French |
The Cat Rescuer |
Jane Kim |
Wash Days Are Saturdays |
Jane Roberts |
Credit Crunch |
Jay Arnott |
There, By the Sea |
Jean Coulombre |
Express |
Jennifer Burke |
Rasputin's Dog |
Jessica Argyle |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Gertrude Stein? |
Jessica Argyle |
How You Helped Kill Me Early |
Jessica Felleman |
Hunter |
Jo Dale |
Blue-Eyed Boy |
Joan Conran |
The Find of a Lifetime |
Joanna Bury |
The Wasp Next Door |
Joanne Leonard |
A Silent Prayer of Hope |
Joe Baxter |
Incident On A Windswept Hill |
joe kilgore |
Da's Belt |
Joe Walsh |
Michael |
John Hogan |
The V-word |
John Karter |
The Truck Story |
John Keefe |
Last Flight |
John Robinson |
The Belfast Train |
John Walshe |
Looking Normal |
Jonathan McCabe |
Confirmation |
Jonathan O'Brien |
Rocks along the track |
Jonathan O'Brien |
Party |
Joy Manne |
Machinations |
Jude |
Ida Sucks |
Jude Higgins |
Late Call |
Judith Panny |
Only Once? |
Judith Panny |
Beans on Toast |
Judy Binning |
Rue |
Julianna Holland |
Broken Toys |
Julie Duffy |
Rain |
Kalysta Strauss |
Death or Escape |
Kalysta Strauss |
Final Flash |
Kane Niwa |
Imagine This... |
Kara Wickwire |
Wall |
Karen Ashe |
Giving It All Away |
Karen Hart |
The Bathroom |
Karen Hollands |
Nativity Play |
Kate Allan |
It's just a fucking Painting |
Kate Brown |
The cane |
Kath O'Sullivan |
Today I Confessed to Murder |
Kati Bumbera |
No. |
Katie Zeigler |
Killing |
Kay Cotton |
Erasmus Darwin, Frail and Studious, Has an Opium Dream of the Future |
Ken Taylor |
Preschool |
Ken Taylor |
Another Coffee |
Kevlin Henney |
Lists |
Khiara Ortiz |
Lovebirds |
Kieran Lyons |
Lighten |
Kieran Lyons |
What Astronauts Do in Their Spare Time |
Kim Schroeder |
Split Decisions |
Klara Flynn |
Peach Stones |
KM Elkes |
Jennifer's Piano |
KM Elkes |
Sisyphus And The Black Holes |
KM Elkes |
Transportation |
kris fletcher |
What I Thought I Would Have Done |
Kristi-Ly Green |
Nature Lover |
kristine simelda |
Mustard Heart |
L.A. Craig |
The Sober Reality |
Laurie Duniam |
Love with a Side of Butterscotch |
Lee Reilly |
The First Time |
Lee Sheridan |
Shards |
Lesley H |
At the edge of the bed |
Lewis Harrison |
Role Reversal |
Liam Kelly |
The Boiler Man |
Linda Foster |
Their Love |
Linda Moser |
In Darien |
Linda Rathburn |
Dexter's Lover |
Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn |
The First Rule |
Lindsey McLeod |
Knots |
Lisa Derrick |
Missed Call |
Lori Schafer |
Old Colonel |
Loris Clements |
Sweet Revenge |
Lorna Cooper |
Bone |
Louisa Scott |
Hirsute Economics |
Louise Cole |
Transfusion |
Lucho Payne |
Food, Booze, Sex and Sorrow |
Lucho Payne |
She waves |
Lucy Montague Moffatt |
Tiny Bellows |
Luke Temple |
Weed |
Lynn Blair |
The Lost Art of Victorian Hairwork |
Lynne Beckenstein |
Blood bond |
M Gethins |
Nudge |
M Gethins |
The Age of Sleeplessness |
Mai Nardone |
Birch |
Mandy de Waal |
Unclaimed |
Mandy de Waal |
Sins of the Heart |
Mandy de Waal |
Home |
Mandy de Waal |
Little The Penguin |
manly banister |
Sippin’ the Blood o’ God Almighty |
Margaret Sinclair |
Every Dog Has Its Day |
Margaret Sinclair |
A Wee Pink Shirt an' All |
Margaret Sinclair |
No Second Chance |
Margaret thomson |
Exit Plan |
Margaret Wimberley |
Big Issues |
Margie Wilson |
Locked In |
Maria Powell |
'We' |
Mark Arnold |
The Tourist |
Mark Arnold |
The Spider |
Mark Arnold |
Chasing Tomorrow |
Mark Arnold |
Those Lucky Nick Nacks |
Mark Fiddes |
TWO GIRLS AND A MAN |
Mark G |
Streethearts |
Mary Moorkens |
All those special days |
Matthew Nicholls |
Drawn to flaws |
maureen flynn |
Bird |
Megan Kaiser |
The First |
Michael Barrett |
Devil on the Dashboard |
Michael Griffin |
MAX / VANESSA / AMY |
Michael Morrissey |
The Snow Garden |
Michael Packman |
Public Enemy |
Michael Wells |
Window Dressing |
Michael Wilson |
Three Inches Of Skin |
Michelle Allford |
Night-time Sonata |
michelle brock |
Aquinas, Acid and Me |
Michelle Elvy |
Snapper: A New Zealand Love Story |
Michelle Elvy |
The digger |
Miranda Galloway |
THE RAMA'S REVENGE |
mirian bethancourt |
She Was Dying |
Myra Sherman |
Max |
Nancy Ludmerer |
The Last one |
Natalie Tompkins |
On Ludlow and Rivington |
Nathan Senge |
The Eagle, The Earth And The Dawn |
Nerryn Bennett |
Try again later |
Niall Herriott |
Break the Cycle |
Niamh O'Sullivan |
Thirteen |
Niamh O'Sullivan |
HUNTING BIG CAT |
Nigel Rowe |
GRANDPA GEORGE |
Nigel Rowe |
Amerikana Dreaming |
Nikita Nelin |
Crocodile |
Nikolaj Volgushev |
NO COMMENT |
Noel Wills |
His Majesty |
Noreen Hyde |
The Flying Man |
P.A. Jackson |
The Last Time at 83 |
Pam Poole |
Memory |
Pamela Medcalf |
Many Worlds |
Panayotis Pakos |
Empty Spaces |
Patricia Cunningham |
The Auld Fella |
Patricia Demery |
some mythology |
patricia kim |
The Chair |
Patrick Lynch |
X-mas |
Patrick Seaman |
The Beard |
Paul Bassett Davies |
Happiness |
Paul Currion |
Tomorrow |
Paul Downton |
The Bungee Bird |
Paul Ennis |
A Quiet Night In |
Paul Ennis |
Redemption |
Paul Michel |
Nether land |
Paula Catherine Taylor |
Where have you been? |
Pauline Slater |
The Death Of Poetry |
Peter Findlay |
Like Ink Into Water |
Peter Herring |
Edinburgh Contradictions |
Peter Jump |
Sweet Dreams |
Peter Williams |
Getting a nose for writing |
Phil Carter |
And So To Bed |
Phyllida Clarke |
Binding Light |
Pina Musto |
Leaf |
Polina Shipkova |
Control |
Rachael Dunlop |
Dark Spaces |
Rachel Adair |
Sleepwalking |
Rachel Altizio |
Her Story of Us |
Rachel Lee Glass |
Homeland |
Rahul Paul |
The Last battle |
Ranjit Bhaskar |
The Fear of Creation Myths |
Rebecca Gimblett |
Den Pirazi |
Rebecca Hall |
White Girls 101 |
Rhiana Perry |
The Singing Group |
Rhoda Greaves |
The C-Word |
Riba Taylor |
Baited Breath |
Richard Lutman |
CHANNEL LOVE |
Robert Perchan |
The Best Defence |
Robert Thayer |
Complex Equations |
Romi Jones |
The favourite daughter |
Rosalynn Lewis |
The Last Straw |
Rosie Cullen |
The Cycle of Life |
Ruby Speechley |
Mistaken |
Ruby Speechley |
The Madman |
Safia Shah |
Cronbach's Alpha |
Sally McGuire |
Awake at Swallow Bay |
Sandra Lloyd |
Sloe Gin For Christmas |
Sarah Baxter |
A Touch of Glamour |
Sarah Garford |
Council flat living |
Sarah Rice |
Ink |
Sarah Sayed |
Checkmate |
Saskia Christ |
Life will grow again |
Scarlett Amber |
The Dream |
Sean W Murphy |
Timeless Shape-shifter |
Shana Thornton |
Moments |
Shannon O'Reilly |
Ode to a Nightmare Nurse |
Sharon Boyle |
A Routine of Small Delights and Irritations |
Sheena Cook |
I Already Knew my Next Victim |
Sheila Hooks |
Freedom |
Sheila Llewellyn |
The Staircase |
Shenaya Chinoy |
The Inheritance |
sian hughes |
The Treatment |
Simon Lewis |
My word, my bond |
Simon Stott |
Anchorhold |
Sinead O'Hart |
The Toaster |
Sinead Gillett |
Food |
Stella Turner |
Imprint |
Stephanie Scott |
Home |
Stephanie Scott |
We Must Do Something about Dad |
Stephen Pullman |
Papa and Pussy |
stevan rimkus |
The Gallic War |
Steven Wolfe |
Last Innings |
Sue Banister |
In the Dead of Night |
Susan Fixter |
Out of Sight |
Susan Howe |
The Gift |
Susan Thomson |
The incredible Rubber Man |
Suzanne O'Sullivan |
Addiction |
Sylvia Jobar |
One for the Road |
Sylvia Young |
Just As I Am |
Talya Boerner |
Soon Again There Would Be Dancing |
Ted Sheehy |
Soon Again There Would Be Dancing |
Ted Sheehy |
Entrepreneurship 101 |
Terraka Jones |
If They Would Let Me |
Theresa Coulter |
It happens |
Thomas Elliott |
The End |
tim briggs |
Trespasser |
Tom Scruton |
Culinary Graduation |
Tony Beet |
Ninotchka |
Tony Tysoe |
I noticed |
Tracey Jennings |
The Voice |
trish leake |
The Gloryhole |
trish leake |
HITTING THE WALL |
Umi Sinha |
GOGGLES |
Umi Sinha |
Veneers |
Ursula Mallows |
Death Rehearsal |
Ute Carson |
Lost Balls |
Veronica Bright |
Away with the fairies |
Veronica Bright |
Virginia Beach |
Victoria Kelly |
A Ride to the Forest |
Vito Racanelli |
Nowhere |
Wendy Ann Greenhalgh |
Footprints |
Xenia Meath |
No, Jeff, No |
Yael Nussbaum |
Thank-you. |
zena ladd-whiting |
SHORTLIST Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2013
79 flash stories shortlisted
(1,407 submitted in total)
Anxious Moments |
Esme Hillis |
Nudge |
M Gethins |
A Girl and a Vineyard are Hard to Guard |
Agnes Van Zyl-Pandur |
Silence |
Alex Bruty |
Falling Down |
Alexandra Grey |
Kelp |
Alicia Bowes |
Mama, I Was Nine |
Amber Bruce |
Bed Head |
Andrea Hughes |
Elements of a Truncated Genealogy |
Angela Rojter |
The Intruder |
Ann Groves |
Nothing to declare |
Anne-Marie Hoeve |
Immaculate |
Anne-Marie Hoeve |
All Tangled Up |
Barry North |
GAIA |
Brian Luby |
Going Home |
Bridget O'Hanlon |
Modern Perceptions |
Carlie Lee |
The wooden spoon |
carmela chaill |
Ruminant |
Carol Caffrey |
Hoarse Chesnut |
Cat Totty |
Aftermath |
Cathy Leonard |
Rocky |
Claire Brown |
"Keeper of the Gloom" |
David Bayless |
Best Taken With a Pinch of Salt |
Dawn Anderson |
And Then Nothing |
Erik Lofroth |
The Cat's Meow |
Frances Kenny |
TOUGH to LOVE |
Frances Kenny |
Scanned |
Franco Alonso |
Now Hear the Word of the Lord |
Frank Woods |
Tipping-Point |
Helen Holmes |
The Last Tooth |
Henrietta McKervey |
Number Five |
Holly Bruce |
The Performance |
J. Kirsch |
A Long Distance Affair |
Jacqueline Winn |
The Sermon |
Jane French |
Express |
Jennifer Burke |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Gertrude Stein? |
Jessica Argyle |
The Find of a Lifetime |
Joanna Bury |
The Wasp Next Door |
Joanne Leonard |
Da's Belt |
Joe Walsh |
The Belfast Train |
John Walshe |
Only Once? |
Judith Panny |
Death or Escape |
Kalysta Strauss |
No. |
Katie Zeigler |
Erasmus Darwin, Frail and Studious, Has an Opium Dream of the Future |
Ken Taylor |
Preschool |
Ken Taylor |
Jennifer's Piano |
KM Elkes |
Sisyphus And The Black Holes |
KM Elkes |
Love with a Side of Butterscotch |
Lee Reilly |
The First Time |
Lee Sheridan |
Role Reversal |
Liam Kelly |
Dexter's Lover |
Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn |
Knots |
Lisa Derrick |
Sweet Revenge |
Lorna Cooper |
The Age of Sleeplessness |
Mai Nardone |
Sins of the Heart |
Mandy de Waal |
Home |
Mandy de Waal |
A Wee Pink Shirt an' All |
Margaret Sinclair |
Those Lucky Nick Nacks |
Mark Fiddes |
MAX / VANESSA / AMY |
Michael Morrissey |
The digger |
Miranda Galloway |
Max |
Nancy Ludmerer |
On Ludlow and Rivington |
Nathan Senge |
His Majesty |
Noreen Hyde |
Redemption |
Paul Michel |
Nether land |
Paula Catherine Taylor |
The Death Of Poetry |
Peter Findlay |
Getting a nose for writing |
Phil Carter |
Binding Light |
Pina Musto |
White Girls 101 |
Rhiana Perry |
The Singing Group |
Rhoda Greaves |
Complex Equations |
Romi Jones |
Mistaken |
Ruby Speechley |
Life will grow again |
Scarlett Amber |
Freedom |
Sheila Llewellyn |
We Must Do Something about Dad |
Stephen Pullman |
In the Dead of Night |
Susan Fixter |
Addiction |
Sylvia Jobar |
Away with the fairies |
Veronica Bright |
Virginia Beach |
Victoria Kelly |
WINNERS Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2013
10 winners as chosen by Peter Benson, will be published in the Fish Anthology 2013
(1,407 submitted in total)
1st Prize: Ken Elkes |
Jennifer’s Piano |
2nd Prize: Katie Zeigler |
No |
3rd Prize: Ken Taylor
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Preschool
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Honorable Mentions |
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Carol Caffrey |
Ruminant |
Ken Elkes |
Sisyphus and the Black Holes |
Margaret Sinclair |
A Wee Pink Shirt an' All |
Cathy Leonard |
Aftermath |
Joe Walsh |
Da's Belt |
Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn |
Dexter's Lover |
Claire Brown |
Rocky |
POETRY PRIZE 2013 Longlist - Shortlist - Winners
LONGLIST Fish Poetry Prize 2013
560 poems longlisted
(1,500 submitted in total)
Redress |
A. M. Cousins |
Autumn Sestina |
Adam Tamashasky |
April 27, 2011 |
adrienne hurgeton |
Where I am from |
Agnieszka Ogloza |
Of the essence |
Aideen Sloan |
Allotment |
AILEEN GORMAN |
Saturday Night Out |
AILEEN GORMAN |
Homecoming, Winter 2011 |
AILEEN GORMAN |
The Diplomat |
aine mcgoey |
I Was Lost |
Alan Murphy |
Single Parent |
Alec Solomita |
Catching The Wind |
Alex Coppock-Bunce |
Better Than Sex |
Alex Osborne |
Slant |
Alison Leonard |
Nativity rap |
Alison Leonard |
The Old Days |
Alyn Fenn |
Tamar |
Alyn Fenn |
Molehills and Mountains |
Amali Rodrigo |
Waiting for the Axe to Fall |
Amali Rodrigo |
The Eye |
Amali Rodrigo |
Human Sacrifice, Mt Eden |
Amanda Kennedy |
An Alhambrian Idyll |
Amanda Williams |
All I Have to Do Is Dream, side B |
Amy Williamson |
sunset |
Andreea Laptes |
Alien with a Cough |
Andy Jenkins |
Men Going to the Factory |
Andy Jenkins |
Kirk and His Wife |
Andy Jenkins |
A & E (Biology Lesson) |
Andy Jenkins |
Against Forgetting |
Andy Kissane |
To the people in the room |
Angela Hickey |
The Runner |
Anirudh Jain |
Desertification |
Anirudh Jain |
SWAN SONG |
Ann Connolly Dinan |
It's good to have something to look forward to |
Anna Coogan |
Teresa |
Anne Coughlan |
Where Are You Now, Amelia? |
Anne-Marie Fyfe |
The Sect which Pulls the Sinews: I’ve Seen You Handle Cocoons |
Annie Christain |
To the cords of the past you wound round me while crossing 14th street |
Anthony Buckley |
Snowfall |
anthony powers |
5 For Forgetting Humanity, What Is, What Used To Be, What It Used To Be |
Aoife Casby |
Stone Cold Sober |
Ashley Holmes |
Ricardian 2125 |
Barrie Walsh |
Black and Blue (One night in Cuba) |
Barry Finegan |
A place for fathers and their sons |
Barry Finegan |
This is not the Poem |
bern butler |
ICU, Holy Thursday |
Bernadette Ulsamer |
Bed |
Beth Somerford |
Shortly After He Died |
Bill Herring |
cuba |
Brad Geyer |
Out of Syria |
Breda Joy |
Survivors |
Breda Joy |
To Paul, a Refutation |
BREDA WALL RYAN |
Second Wife's Tale |
BREDA WALL RYAN |
Summer's End |
BREDA WALL RYAN |
Twirling |
Brendan McCormack |
John the Baptist |
Brianna Sulzener |
Romeo and Juliet - 21st Century. |
Brigid O'Connor |
Advice for the Cold-blooded |
Bronwyn Lovell |
Chrysalis |
Bronwyn Lovell |
Running into your Ex |
Bronwyn Lovell |
Sewing |
Bronwyn Lovell |
Do Over |
C. Wade Bentley |
Once Were Warriors |
C.P. O'Donnell |
Back Again |
C.P. O'Donnell |
At the Marina Hotel |
Cahal Dallat |
THE GAP IN THE HILLS |
Cahal Dallat |
Do Not Be Angry If You Hear Me Snore |
Caitlin Doyle |
God Always Geometrizes |
Caoilinn Hughes |
South Pacific Time |
Carmine Dandrea |
Yes, There Are Slefish Mothers |
carol cahalane |
"Dance" - after Yehudit Arnon |
Carol Dine |
Supplication to Homeland |
Cassia Bardos |
Wish You Were Here |
Cathal O'Riordain |
Listening to the Morning |
Catherine Bateson |
Imperfection |
Catherine Bateson |
Wraith |
Catherine Bateson |
ROUND PEG [SQUARE HOLE] |
Catherine Lawson |
Mother |
cathy-melissa whitefield |
WOodland 7-2257 |
Celeste Gainey |
Mind What You Say: The 1911 Census |
Celia McGovern |
We reclaimed Strath Rannoch |
Charlie Gracie |
Defective |
Charlie Gracie |
Love and the Space Between |
Chloe Firetto-Toomey |
Sandpit |
Chris Edgoose |
Rain Shadow |
Chris Wilde |
We took her to the beach |
Christian Cook |
Their Ambiente |
Christine Heine |
The Noblest Of Fairytales |
Christos Daskalakis |
Rock Lane |
Ciara Doorley |
In The Ring |
cindy dale |
Liberty Lines |
Clare Whitej-Sullivan |
Elation |
Colette Mary |
Deposition |
Colette McAndrew |
Our Morning Ritual |
Colleen Bloch |
Fishing |
Colleen Callahan |
Seeing |
Connie Roberts |
The Shortening Days |
Dan Reid |
Take My Face. I Don't Need It Anymore. |
Dan Speers |
The Last Soldier Out |
Dan Speers |
The Apple Tree |
Dana Robbins |
Good Friday |
Daniel Gustafsson |
Nativity |
Daniel Gustafsson |
Bottled Water |
Daniel P. Stokes |
Verdigris |
Darragh O'Toole |
Fold |
Dave Rudden |
Emily Dickenson’s Joke Book |
David H W Grubb |
The Leg Shaver’s Convention |
David H W Grubb |
The Scourge of Spain |
David lightbown |
Tower of the Flies |
David lightbown |
The Yawp of Nothing |
David Oprava |
Glacier |
Davoren Howard |
Blue Moon |
Davoren Howard |
Cellular Explosions |
Dean Poland |
"Sounds Bouncing From Stones" |
Deborah DeNicola |
Obsessive Sinner |
Deirdre Murray |
In No Time |
Deirdre Shanahan |
Walking up Heath Street |
Deirdre Shanahan |
At The Marine Hotel |
Deirdre Shanahan |
Backyard Blues |
Deniz Oygur |
The Missing |
Des Kavanagh |
Retail Therapy |
Des Kavanagh |
Dreamsicle Sleep |
Diane Smith |
Bridge |
Dinesh Sairam |
Insomnia |
Dobrina Manolova |
La Belle Dame's Feathers In The Lake |
DOLORES WALSHE |
Early morning |
Don Urwin |
Sprout |
Donnelle McKaskle |
Old Men in the Mesquite |
Donnelle McKaskle |
Anticipation |
Doris Metzger |
Storm |
E. Alex Pierce |
Mikeen Dan |
Eibhlís Carcione |
Eavesdrop |
Eithne Hand |
Winter |
Eithne Hand |
Government Of The Air |
Eithne Hand |
The Catch |
Eithne Reynolds |
Family Reunion |
Eithne Reynolds |
Runway |
elaine lambert |
The Present |
Eleanor Hooker |
My Angel |
Eleonora Bianchi |
1990 |
Elizabeth Alphonse |
Mala Aria |
Elizabeth Bodien |
In and Out |
Elizabeth Helen Tran |
Better Red than Blue? |
Elizabeth Rose |
Marriage Is Another Country |
Emily Bludworth de Barrios |
Playing Atttention |
Emma Clohessy |
Untethered |
Emma Harding |
Describing the sea to someone who has never seen it. |
eoin hegarty |
Opening a giant water melon |
eoin hegarty |
The Regular Ego |
Eric Pitty |
Memories & Hunger, a survey |
Eric Pitty |
First Time |
Eric Yao |
Skylark |
Eriko Tsugawa-Madden |
The Big Bang |
Evan Nordstrom |
Departure |
Fae Stewart |
Landscape |
Fae Stewart |
Deer Blind |
Fae Stewart |
Virtually |
Fidelma Mahon |
A Dusting of Snow |
Finnian Mulloy |
Cutting them down |
Fionnuala Enright |
Island Work |
Frances Corkey Thompson |
The Plea of A Black Woman |
Francis Robertson |
Articles of Faith |
Frank Farrelly |
On Coolnamona Bog |
Frank Farrelly |
A Ponsonby Road menagerie |
Frank Russo |
The Blind |
Gaetano Lo Coco |
Father Drives Off in the Buick |
Gary Dop |
Silent Gliss |
Gemma Mills McGrath |
The Lyric Frame of Sorrow |
gene fendt |
"Prague" |
George Held |
Raid |
Geraldine Mitchell |
Dealing with Bears |
Geraldine Mitchell |
A Thousand Bars |
Geraldine Mitchell |
Meditation #17 The Air Does Not Willingly Serve Us Breath |
Gerard Beirne |
Genesis |
Gerard Grealish |
red clock |
Gerry Boland |
Christmas Eve |
Gillian Haigh |
Tangle |
Ginny Lowe Connors |
Bodily Defiance |
Gloria D. Gonsalves |
Door #4 |
Grainne Murphy |
Song of Orpheus |
Gregory Bell |
Catherine of Aragon |
Gregory Jackson |
Grouse |
Gregory Jackson |
Not Quite Nineveh |
Gretchen Friel |
Truth of a Story |
Gunilla Kester |
When Odysseus Sleeps the World Stops |
Gunilla Kester |
I am fat and somehwat old |
H Falconer |
PARTITA |
Helen Gaynor |
Waves |
Helen Newdick |
Leading Ladies |
Helena Nolan |
Confessional |
Helena Nolan |
Silver combination microwave oven and grill |
HelennHebe |
Cosmetically-Improved Real Estate |
Holly Stone |
Visiting Mother's Grand Canyon |
Holly Stone |
TOAST |
Honor Somerset |
Now and Then |
Iain Napier |
Shell Bay Herm |
Ian Graham Tew |
Neat Thoughts |
Ingrid van Dijk |
Seduction |
Ingrid van Dijk |
Fair Exchange |
Ingrid van Dijk |
After 53 Wonderful Years |
Ingrid van Dijk |
After the Deluge |
Iris Woodford |
Minders |
islwyn williams |
...Paul/wants a job in the Post Office/selling stamps... |
Ita O'Donovan |
Freesias |
Jacqueline Corcoran |
Amelie |
Jacqueline P Haskell |
Mother and Child |
Jacqueline P Haskell |
The Ghosts of Mothers |
James Allan Kennedy |
Waiter, Istanbul |
James Andrew |
New Year’s Day, 1981 - BE HAPPY |
James Bullis |
Dusk |
James Ellis |
Dear Heart |
James Ellis |
Shadow |
James Ellis |
Scan |
james O'Hare |
The Fallen Athlete |
james O'Hare |
Climbing Beans |
Jane Fraser |
Diversify or Die |
Jane Fraser |
Call of the Isle |
Jane Fraser |
Involuntary encounter |
Jane Marchant |
Greater love |
jane williams |
Fish story |
jane williams |
Old Friends |
jane williams |
If |
janet Hall Bennett |
The Jumble Hole |
Janet Lees |
Barley Sugar and Green Ink |
Janice Windle |
You won't remember |
Jayne Walter |
A Year Later |
Jean Tuomey |
The Gannets |
Jed Myers |
Standing Outside the Old Place |
Jed Myers |
Snippet |
Jed Myres |
On contentment |
Jen Taaffe |
He Made Promises She Never Forgot |
Jennifer Compton |
Overview Effect |
Jennifer Kivikko |
The Betrayal |
Jennifer Kivikko |
The Classroom |
jenny pollak |
Currawong |
jenny pollak |
Him |
jenny pollak |
Nothing Sacred |
Jessica Glover |
Purgatory |
Jessica Traynor |
My Aunt Reads the Tarot |
Jessica Traynor |
Choosing |
Jillian Sullivan |
A kiss in the rain |
Jo Barril |
Shapes of Autism |
Joan Goodreau |
Home for the Weekend. |
Joan Morrissey |
Photograph |
Joan Renino |
Following Tina |
Joan Renino |
Grandma Is Napping In A Four-Poster |
Joan Renino |
Diabolique |
Joan Renino |
Missy's Corsage |
Joanna Campbell |
The keeper |
Joe Ruane |
The "Hair" Word-Clique |
John A Carter |
I've Seen Paris Hilton |
John A Carter |
Tae Lane |
John FItzgerald |
My Princess |
John Ger O'Riordan |
He is old now |
John Gredler |
God-damned nervous breakdown |
John Halstead |
ACHILL |
John Kelly |
Chisel |
Jonah Sullivan |
Comb |
Jonah Sullivan |
Skavsta |
Jones Irwin |
The Snakehandler's Word of God Mark 16: 17-18 |
Judith Krause |
foehn |
Julia K. Stein |
Expectations |
Julia K. Stein |
Calvary |
Julie Watts |
Let me out. |
Kara Wickwire |
The Warrior |
karen mcsorley |
The Lift |
Karen O'Connor |
Taken |
Karen O'Connor |
Frida Kahlo Roots (or Self Portrait on Rocky Ground) |
karina tynan |
For Frida Kahlo (with Diego on her mind) |
karina tynan |
A Song of Leaving |
karla morton |
Picking Fish |
Kat Bernhardt |
The Ballad of Reading Road |
Kate Allan |
The Nick of Time |
Kate Newmann |
A Father’s Mystique |
Katherine Hoffman |
Street Sleeping |
Katherine West |
The Lost World |
Kathleen Spivack |
Labours |
Kay Cotton |
The Dark of the Night |
Kelly Kavanaugh |
Silhouette |
Kerensa Jennings |
Burnt grass of the long acre |
kevin connelly |
The Thoughtful Cockroach |
Kim Schroeder |
The Dawn |
Kimberley Schmitt |
Our Walk Within the Clouds |
Kimberley Schmitt |
Sonnet for my son, aged six |
Kirsty Seymour-Ure |
Chagall's Village |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
That Which is Wanting |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Darting Light |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Pins |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Darting Light |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Beyond Fort Worth |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Missing in Brunswick |
koraly dimitriadis |
In Charge (My Wendy, With Cancer) |
Kristina Borjesson |
Oh. |
L Komar |
A quick back and forth movement of the camera. |
L Komar |
Widow's Walk |
Laura Lucas |
Villanelle for Pi |
Laura McKenna |
Stalemate |
Laura Synnott |
Stalemate |
Laura Synnott |
To Remember |
Laura Synnott |
Motion Passed |
Laurence McKeown |
Roadkill |
Laurie Cousseau |
Which Why What Where and When in Ireland |
Lavinia Kumar |
The Rabbits |
LeAnn Bjerken |
How Easy to Love |
Leland Whipple |
The Dead |
Lenora Oderkirk Steele |
Margie Miller |
Lenora Oderkirk Steele |
Flow |
Leonard McDonnell |
a lake that seems like a sea |
Lia Lockert |
Allegro |
Liam Geoghegan |
Sibling questionnaire |
Liam Maloney |
Absent sister |
Linda Grieve |
Equally Odd |
Linda HIllringhouse |
Catalan Moon |
Linda HIllringhouse |
Catalan Moon |
Linda HIllringhouse |
Looking Through Photographs |
Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson |
This Newfound Note |
Lisa Jacobson |
Vanishing Point |
Lisa Jacobson |
Hanging out with the Stars |
Liz Mellon |
Traces |
Lois Elaine Heckman |
Emprisonnement Volontaire (on viewing "Le baiser de la muse" by Paul Cézanne) |
Lois Elaine Heckman |
Domiciliary Care Allowance Application |
Louise Byrne |
Wild |
Louise McKenna |
Raw Footage |
Luellen Fletcher |
The blatant exposure of internal organs |
luigi marchini |
"Controlled Crying" |
Lyndon Walker |
My Eyes Go Out Like A Cry |
Lyndon Walker |
JOUISANCE: The Train To Pain & Joy |
Lyndon Walker |
His Arms Are Full of Broken Things |
Lyndon Walker |
We Just Want To Get To Know You |
M. A. Yates |
Why |
M. G. Stephens |
The Chorus |
Madeline Collins |
The Swallow |
Maire Ryan |
An ode to the humble Conker |
Mairead Doohan |
Valjean's Lament |
manly banister |
Dante and the Man of Blood -- 5th Nov. 2012 |
Manny Blacksher |
Iambe |
Manny Blacksher |
hanging out the crows |
Maresa Sheehan |
Letters to Santa |
Margaret Eddershaw |
Some Kind of Greed |
Margaret Milardo |
The Cloud-Horse |
Margaret Moran |
If Elvis was a Sycamore |
Maria Mc Guinness |
Headlines written with chalk on the asphalt in front of a house of an American Poet in a Muslim Country |
Maria Teutsch |
Up To Scratch |
Marie Cadden |
Disturbing the Queen |
Marie Cadden |
On a November night |
Marissa van der Vorm |
They're not eye bags |
Mark Fiddes |
Exit at St Mary's |
Mark Fiddes |
El Pacto de Olvido (The Pact of Forgetting) |
Mark Fiddes |
A Vulva for the Pope |
Mark Fiddes |
Revenge of the Polter-grannies |
Mark Fiddes |
Passing the Dalles |
Mark Jensen |
On the T |
Mark Jensen |
Lament for a Sailor |
Martin Hulton |
Mid Flight |
Mary Fitzpatrick |
If Salt Loses Its Taste |
Mary Madec |
Autumn Evening |
Mary Madec |
For Something to Say |
Mary Madec |
A Baby Cried For You and the Heat of Your Burning Breasts While Cherry Trees Blossomed |
Mary Mullen |
Temple Dancer |
Mary Seymour |
Travelling to Roundstone (after Seamus Heaney) |
Mary Smith |
i need to see a man about a scythe |
mary woodward |
Incunabula |
Maureen Boyle |
Pillow |
Maureen Browne |
Leaving |
Maureen Browne |
This talk about the Gathering |
Maureen Harkin |
Her side of the bed |
max merckenschlager |
Donegal |
Meghan Flaherty |
Dali's Horse By the Window In the NGV, January Afternoon |
Melanie Steynberg |
Night Repairs |
Melissa Reider |
Dried Dates |
Michael Maul |
Potato Sangha |
michael murphy |
Unintended Metaphors |
Michael Sukach |
Poetry Critic: a Found Pastoral |
Michael Sukach |
Ingenuity |
Michael Sukach |
Platoon |
Michael Sukach |
Wróbel |
Michael Swan |
In front of the stone |
Michael Swan |
Beyond the Lintel |
micheal o'flaherty |
They Steal Things |
michelle brock |
"There Should be a Better Word for an Orgasm" |
Mike Absalom |
rain dancing |
mike casey |
time in hand |
mike casey |
So You, On Quill and Daw |
Mil Norman-Risch |
Urban Birdsong |
Millicent Danker |
Worship at the Universal Church of Hardware |
Mimi Whittaker |
Sisters |
N. Nye |
Searching for my home |
Nadia Wood |
Patches |
Nancy Burke |
Bass |
Nancy Lewis |
Moonflower |
Natalie Holborow |
Toscana |
Nathan Senge |
Fast Backward |
Niamh Cronin |
The Vine |
Niamh Prior |
IBM Selectric |
Niamh Prior |
SIMI |
Nick McCarty |
SIMI |
Nick McCarty |
on the level |
nick pemberton |
Dying |
Niki Nymark |
A Daughter's Kaddish |
Niki Nymark |
Things Unseen |
Nila Jones |
Winter Nuptials |
Noel Monahan |
Down At The End Of The Bar |
Noel Wills |
A New Place |
Noel Wills |
People Watching People |
Noel Wills |
The Knife Sharpener |
Nora McGillen |
Bloody Sunday |
Nora McGillen |
saint catherine's |
Norm Neill |
aged four |
Norm Neill |
unjust deserts |
Norm Neill |
The Awakening |
Padraic O'Dowd |
Ed's 24th year of knowing |
pamela leeson |
It was a different life, it was far off but near |
Pat Galvin |
Aleppo - A Song for the Living and for the Dead |
Pat Morris |
MRI |
Patricia Demery |
A Gift From the Dead Sea |
Patricia O'Heare |
To Those With Hope |
Patrick Griffin |
Silverfish |
Patrick Kincaid |
Moving Day |
Patti Trimble |
Might the Waves? |
Paul Beardsell |
for all those who wait for loved ones to die |
Paul Bregazzi |
Rus in Suburbe |
Paul Bregazzi |
After We Met |
Paul Currion |
Busselton Jetty |
Paul Currion |
every object can be detected |
Paul Currion |
Defence of the Realm (A Mobile Text). |
Paul Higgins |
Spiritual S&M |
paul kindlon |
Cubits |
Paul Michel |
La Haute Borne |
Paul Nash |
The Pottery |
paul sonderman |
Bullpen: US General Life |
Paula Brancato |
homeless, more or less |
paula cunningham |
Making Strides |
Pauline Hall |
Your Favourite Blue Dress |
Pauline Mc Namee |
The Labcoats |
Penny Shutt |
Portrait of Jean Rhys, 1979 |
Peter Bakowski |
Snapshot |
Peter Blair |
Statues |
Peter Branson |
Poet, all we Ask |
Phyllis Jean Green |
Immaculate |
Rachel Fenton |
The Break |
Rachel Fenton |
Pure Water Poured |
Rachel Heimowitz |
Movement |
Rachel Heimowitz |
Games Lesson |
Rachel Twyford |
Whodunit |
Radhika Chadha |
Shirts |
Raphael Woolf |
Another old dialogue |
RAYMOND SHEEHAN |
just visiting |
RAYMOND SHEEHAN |
Without You, I'm an Out-of-Work Engineer |
Rebecca Olander |
You are With Us |
Rhoda Twombly |
Paris |
Rhonda Collis |
Exit Interview |
Richard Scarsbrook |
Rule of Three |
Richard Scarsbrook |
Haiku (for the Ravenous) |
Richard Scarsbrook |
Album |
rob mooney |
Mist descended.. |
Rob Murphy |
Grandfather’s Collars |
Rob Wallis |
Leaving St Fillans |
Robert Arnott |
A Sort of Love Poem |
Robert Headley |
Singing to Irish Cows |
Robert Headley |
The Lexus Driver |
Robert Headley |
Connemara, 1998 |
Robert Headley |
I leave my bed |
Robert Watson |
A parley of crows |
Robert Watson |
Fifty-six |
Robert Watson |
Early winter evening |
Robert Watson |
It is that moment |
Robert Watson |
Garavogue session |
Robyn Rowland |
The easy way |
Robyn Rowland |
Mayo Mead |
Robyn Rowland |
Not a hint of brogue |
Rocky Griever |
Two Satans |
Rocky Griever |
Competition at the Prince of Wales Opera House |
Rocky Griever |
Nil all |
Roisin Phillips |
Harry Clarke's Windows at Newport |
Ron Carey |
Starfish |
Ron Carey |
The Fields |
Ron Carey |
Jazz Sonnet In Spring |
Ron Howland |
boole |
ronan goggin |
Iphigenia |
Rosa Watkinson |
Skinning a Rabbit |
Rosamund Taylor |
Loving Pop - Letter from a Grandson |
Ross Donlon |
What suffices possession |
rowland anthony corr |
The Meander Field |
Sally Flint |
Musa Nana |
sandra longley |
Derma Blues |
sandra longley |
Miscarraige |
sandrab63 |
∞ ∞ ∞ |
Sara Deniz Akant |
absence |
Scott Elder |
THE BROCHURE |
Seamus Harrington |
MAGIC |
Seamus Harrington |
My Galway German Girl |
Seamus Scanlon |
lake |
seppo odell |
Just Quietly Care |
Sharon Fishwick |
carrik-a rede |
sharon flynn |
Prognosis |
Sharon Foley |
I hope to hear a loon call |
Sharon Foley |
Widow |
Sharon Foley |
Widow |
Sharon Foley |
Brighton Cabin |
Sharon Foley |
Leaving |
Sharon Foley |
Widow |
Sharon Foley |
Dandelion |
Sharon Foley |
Frontiers |
Shaw Stephens |
On the Election of Francis I |
Sheila Mannix |
Proposal |
Shirley McClure |
Pioneer of Dunsink |
Simon Lewis |
Canal Walk |
Simon Lewis |
Infinite Loop |
Simon Lewis |
Trying to Keep Quiet |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
Hawking's Next Equation |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
And a Man Stepped Out |
Sinéad Cotter |
My Manifesto |
siobhan dempsey |
Lunchtime |
Siobhan Gavin |
Your Second Mother |
Siobhan Harte |
China Doll |
Siobhan Harte |
Israeli Invasion,March2002 |
Stephanie Brennan |
Sea Bells |
Stephanie Shields |
The first time the Earth went round by the Sun |
Stephen Moran |
I Am A Friend Of The Beach Chickens |
Stephen Pullman |
Stripped and Fingered |
Stephen Pullman |
In the Middle Atlas |
Steven Berrier |
Precious Little |
Steven Duggan |
Imagined Christmas |
Steven Willis |
The Black Rabbit of Didcot Parkway |
Steven Willis |
I'm Late! |
Steven Willis |
Welcome Back! |
Steven Willis |
The Departure |
Sue Butler |
All Art is Analogy |
Sue Cartledge |
Down the Rabbit Hole (after Dali) |
Sue Morgan |
Sartor Resartus |
Susan Azar Porterfield |
Critical Thinking |
Susan Browne |
Great Blue Heron |
susan hudson |
Sea Windows |
Susan Wallace |
Caleb Aero |
Susana Hazelden |
White Snake in Coober Pedy |
Suzi Mezei |
Fishing With Father |
Tanvir Bush |
False Alarm |
Tara Reapy |
The Last Hour |
Tenia Barnett |
Wendy's Wake |
Terence Hadert |
Salt Marsh Express |
Terry Dawson |
The Champions of Run-Down |
Tess Barry |
The Ice Harp |
Tessa Kale |
For Love |
Thomas Harrison |
Return from the Front |
Tim Goulding |
The Still Yard |
Toby Corballis |
A River |
Tom Handford |
Edge of Town |
Valerie Hannan |
The half-life of fathers |
Vanessa Gebbie |
Indoor Scene |
Wayne Price |
The stones of the terraced houses |
Wayne Price |
The Secret |
Wayne Price |
Loyalties |
Wayne Price |
Gifts |
WEN-SHAN SHIEH |
In The Convent Kitchen |
Wende McCabe |
Sometimes |
Will Fish |
How to make it |
Will Johnson |
First Thunder |
Yevgeny Salisbury |
Tok Tak Tic |
Yunha Hwang |
Viagra |
Zach Knox |
Here Lies Truth |
Zachary Eversole |
SHORTLIST Fish Poetry Prize 2013
117 poems shortlisted
(1,752 submitted in total)
Autumn Sestina |
Adam Tamashasky |
Nativity rap |
Alison Leonard |
All I Have to Do Is Dream, side B |
Amy Williamson |
sunset |
Andreea Laptes |
Kirk and His Wife |
Andy Jenkins |
A & E (Biology Lesson) |
Andy Jenkins |
Against Forgetting |
Andy Kissane |
Summer's End |
BREDA WALL RYAN |
Back Again |
C.P. O'Donnell |
God Always Geometrizes |
Caoilinn Hughes |
"Dance" - after Yehudit Arnon |
Carol Dine |
Wraith |
Catherine Bateson |
Mind What You Say: The 1911 Census |
Celia McGovern |
Rain Shadow |
Chris Wilde |
Liberty Lines |
Clare Whitej-Sullivan |
The Last Soldier Out |
Dan Speers |
The Apple Tree |
Dana Robbins |
Good Friday |
Daniel Gustafsson |
Nativity |
Daniel Gustafsson |
Emily Dickenson’s Joke Book |
David H W Grubb |
The Leg Shaver’s Convention |
David H W Grubb |
At The Marine Hotel |
Deirdre Shanahan |
Backyard Blues |
Deniz Oygur |
Retail Therapy |
Des Kavanagh |
Old Men in the Mesquite |
Donnelle McKaskle |
Untethered |
Emma Harding |
Opening a giant water melon |
eoin hegarty |
Memories & Hunger, a survey |
Eric Pitty |
On Coolnamona Bog |
Frank Farrelly |
Tangle |
Ginny Lowe Connors |
Not Quite Nineveh |
Gretchen Friel |
I am fat and somehwat old |
H Falconer |
Waves |
Helen Newdick |
Visiting Mother's Grand Canyon |
Holly Stone |
After the Deluge |
Iris Woodford |
...Paul/wants a job in the Post Office/selling stamps... |
Ita O'Donovan |
Mother and Child |
Jacqueline P Haskell |
Fish story |
jane williams |
Old Friends |
jane williams |
A Year Later |
Jean Tuomey |
Standing Outside the Old Place |
Jed Myers |
The Betrayal |
Jennifer Kivikko |
Missy's Corsage |
Joanna Campbell |
Chisel |
Jonah Sullivan |
Comb |
Jonah Sullivan |
Calvary |
Julie Watts |
The Warrior |
karen mcsorley |
Taken |
Karen O'Connor |
A Song of Leaving |
karla morton |
Picking Fish |
Kat Bernhardt |
The Nick of Time |
Kate Newmann |
The Lost World |
Kathleen Spivack |
Pins |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Darting Light |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
Beyond Fort Worth |
Kita Kita Shantiris |
In Charge (My Wendy, With Cancer) |
Kristina Borjesson |
Widow's Walk |
Laura Lucas |
How Easy to Love |
Leland Whipple |
Margie Miller |
Lenora Oderkirk Steele |
Vanishing Point |
Lisa Jacobson |
Wild |
Louise McKenna |
We Just Want To Get To Know You |
M. A. Yates |
El Pacto de Olvido (The Pact of Forgetting) |
Mark Fiddes |
A Vulva for the Pope |
Mark Fiddes |
Revenge of the Polter-grannies |
Mark Fiddes |
On the T |
Mark Jensen |
i need to see a man about a scythe |
mary woodward |
Incunabula |
Maureen Boyle |
Platoon |
Michael Sukach |
They Steal Things |
michelle brock |
SIMI |
Nick McCarty |
SIMI |
Nick McCarty |
on the level |
nick pemberton |
A Daughter's Kaddish |
Niki Nymark |
Winter Nuptials |
Noel Monahan |
The Knife Sharpener |
Nora McGillen |
Bloody Sunday |
Nora McGillen |
aged four |
Norm Neill |
unjust deserts |
Norm Neill |
The Awakening |
Padraic O'Dowd |
A Gift From the Dead Sea |
Patricia O'Heare |
Moving Day |
Patti Trimble |
Defence of the Realm (A Mobile Text). |
Paul Higgins |
Cubits |
Paul Michel |
Bullpen: US General Life |
Paula Brancato |
Portrait of Jean Rhys, 1979 |
Peter Bakowski |
Statues |
Peter Branson |
Poet, all we Ask |
Phyllis Jean Green |
The Break |
Rachel Fenton |
Haiku (for the Ravenous) |
Richard Scarsbrook |
Leaving St Fillans |
Robert Arnott |
Mayo Mead |
Robyn Rowland |
The Fields |
Ron Carey |
Jazz Sonnet In Spring |
Ron Howland |
Iphigenia |
Rosa Watkinson |
My Galway German Girl |
Seamus Scanlon |
carrik-a rede |
sharon flynn |
Leaving |
Sharon Foley |
Widow |
Sharon Foley |
Dandelion |
Sharon Foley |
Trying to Keep Quiet |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
Hawking's Next Equation |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
And a Man Stepped Out |
Sinéad Cotter |
China Doll |
Siobhan Harte |
Precious Little |
Steven Duggan |
All Art is Analogy |
Sue Cartledge |
Down the Rabbit Hole (after Dali) |
Sue Morgan |
Critical Thinking |
Susan Browne |
Great Blue Heron |
susan hudson |
Sea Windows |
Susan Wallace |
Fishing With Father |
Tanvir Bush |
Salt Marsh Express |
Terry Dawson |
The half-life of fathers |
Vanessa Gebbie |
The Secret |
Wayne Price |
Loyalties |
Wayne Price |
Sometimes |
Will Fish |
How to make it |
Will Johnson |
WINNERS Fish Poetry Prize 2013
1st Prize: Andy Kissane 2nd Prize: Wayne Price |
Against Forgetting The Secret |
3rd Prize: Wayne Price
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Loyalties
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Honorable Mentions |
|
Ginny Lowe Connors |
Tangle |
Mary Anne Losee Yates |
We Just Want To Get To Know You |
Frank Farrelly |
On Coolnamona Bog |
Noel Monahan |
Winter Nuptials |
Dana Robbins |
The Apple Tree |
David H. W. Grubb |
The Leg Shaver's Convention |
Breda Wall Ryan |
Summer's End |