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The Annual Fish Anthology contains the winning stories and poems from it's literary prizes.
All anthologies are listed below along with a selection of other publications from Fish.

For more information about a particular book click on the title.
Click on the book image for the on-line Fish Book Shop.

 

Only two of the Fish Anthologies are still available in hard copy - Harlem River Blues (2008) and A Paper Heart is Beating A Paper Boat Sets Sail (2007). These two Anthologies are also available from Amazon and can be ordered through book shops. Other books from the Fish catalogue will shortly be available to download to your computer from the on-line Fish Book Shop.

We hope you enjoy browsing through our catalogue. You can see some stories from these Anthologies in our Short Stories to Read Online section. If you have any queries about our previous short story collections you can email us at info@fishpublishing.com


On-line Book Shop2008 Harlem River Blues

The entries into this year's Fish Short Story Prize were universally strong
and good and from these the judges have selected winners, we believe,
of exceptional virtue.
- Carlo Gebler

 


On-line Book Shop2007 A Paper Heart Is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail

I was amazed and delighted at the range and quality of these stories.
Every one of them was interesting, well-written, beautifully crafted and, as a short-story must, every one of them focused my attention on that very curtailed tableau which a short-story necessarily sets before us.
- Michael Collins
(Read extracts on-line)


On-line Book Shop2006 Grandmother, Girl, Wolf and Other Stories

These stories voice all that is vibrant about the form. - Gerard Donovan

Very short stories pack a poetic punch. Each of these holds its own surprise, or two. Dive into these seemingly small worlds. You'll come up anew.
- Angela Jane Fountas

Stimulating and interesting. The poems are terrific - Michael McCarthy



On-line Book Shop2006 All the King's Horses - Anthology of Historical Short Stories

Each of the pieces here has been chosen for its excellence. They are a delightfully varied assortment. More than usual for an anthology, this is a compendium of all the different ways that fiction can succeed. I invite you to turn to 'All the King's Horses'. The past is here. Begin.
- Michel Faber

On-line Book Shop2005 The Mountains of Mars

Literary anthologies, especially of new work, act as a kind of indicator to a society’s concerns. This Short Story collection, such a sharp and useful enterprise, goes beyond that. Its internationality demonstrates how our concerns are held in common across the globe. - Frank Delaney

Fascinating and enjoyable. - Julia Neuberger

On-line Book Shop2004 Spoonface

From the daily routine of a carer in ‘Spoonface’, to the powerful, recurring image of a freezer in ‘Shadow Lives’. It was the remarkable focus on the ordinary that made these Fish short stories such a pleasure to read.
- Hugo Hamilton



 

On-line Book Shop2003 Feathers & Cigarettes

In a world where twenty screens of bullshit seem to be revolving without respite… there is nothing that can surpass the ‘explosion of art’ and its obstinate insistence on making sense of things. These dedicated scribes, as though some secret society, heroically, humbly, are espousing a noble cause.
- Pat McCabe

 

On-line Book Shop2002 Franklin's Grace

It’s supposed to be a short form, the good story, but it has about it a largeness I love. There is something to admire in all these tales, these strange, insistent invention. They take place in a rich and satisfying mixture of places, countries of the mind and heart.
- Christopher Hope

On-line Book Shop2001 Asylum 1928

There are fine stories in this new anthology, some small and intimate,
some reaching out through the personal for a wider, more universal perspective, wishing to tell a story - grand, simple, complex or everyday,
wishing to engage you the reader.
- Kate O'Riodan

On-line Book Shop 2000 Five O'Clock Shadow

I feel like issuing a health warning with this Fish Anthology ­ these stories may seriously damage your outlook - Here the writers view the world in their unique way, and have the imagination, talent, and the courage to refine it into that most surprising of all art forms ­ the short story. - Clem Cairns.
Every story is interesting, facinating, haunting in one way or another.
- Julia Darling

 

On-line Book Shop1999 From the Bering Strait

Every story in this book makes its own original way in the world. knowing which are the telling moments, and showing them to us. And as the narator of the winning story casually remarks, 'Sometimes its the small things that amaze me'
- Molly McCloskey
The Stories in this book are wonderful - fresh and invigorating.
They are a fine sample of what is best in writing today. - Frank McCourt

 

On-line Book Shop1998 Scrap Magic

The stories here possess the difference, the quirkiness and the spark. They follow their own road and their own ideas their own way. It is a valiable quality which makes this collection a varied one. Read it, I hope you say to yourself like I did on many occasions, "That's deadly. How did they think of that?"
- Eamonn Sweeney

 

 

On-line Book Shop1997 Dog Days

Really good short stories like these, don't read like they were written. They read like they simply grew on the page.
- Joseph O'Connor



On-line Book Shop1996 The Stranger

The writers in this collection can write short stories . . .
their quality is the only thing they have in common.
- Roddy Doyle




On-line Book Shop1995 The Fish Garden

This is the first volume of short stories from Ireland's newest publishing house. We are proud that fish has enabled 15 budding new writters be published in this anthology, and I look forward to seeing many of them in print again.
Read this book - their talent speaks for itsef.
- Clem Cairns.


 



Other Publications from Fish Publishing

 

On-line Book ShopAltergeist - a novel by Tim Booth

You only know who you can't trust. You can't trust the law, because there's none in New Ireland. You can't trust the Church, because they think they're the law. And you can't trust the State, because they think they're the Church And most of all, you can't trust your friends, because you can't remember who they were anymore.

On-line Book ShopSmall City Blues numbers 1 to 51 - a novel by Martin Kelleher

Kelleher is a craftsman, moving effortlessly between
love and violence, hope and despair, sadness and humour.
This is a notable debut.
- Eamonn Sweeney

A memoir of urban life, chronicled through its central character, Mackey. From momentary reflections to stories about his break with childhood and adolescence, the early introduction to the Big World, the discovery of romance and then love, the powerlessness of ordinary people, the weaknesses that end in disappointment and the strengths that help them seek redemption and belonging.

On-line Book ShopThe Woman Who Swallowed the Book of Kells

Ian Wild's stories mix Monty Python with Hammer Horror, and the Beatles with Shakespeare, but his anarchic style and sense of humour remain very much his own in this collection of tall tales from another planet. Where else would you find vengeful organs, the inside story of Eleanor Rigby, mobile moustaches, and Vikings looting a Cork City branch of Abracababra?
- Eamonn Sweeney.

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