The shortlist of 140 stories has now been selected, so congratulations to those writers who have been selected.
Well done to the writers who have made the longlist to the Fish Short Story Prize. There were 1,800 entries, and the list comprises about a fifth of that.
The final results as chosen by Ronan Bennett will be announced on 17 March on this page, and the anthology of winning stories will be launched at the West Cork Literary Festival on Wed 7 July. All are welcome.
The anthology will be available from Fish for 12 euro from July.
To check if your story has made it into the longlist or stortlist please click on the links:
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Bruce Sterling's story, 'Milk Run', runner up in the 2008 Fish One-Page Prize contest, is being made into a short film by director-producer Julian Grant (HBO, Lionsgate). Mr. Grant recently made Bruce's noir short story Screw the Pepperoni (Out of the Gutter, Volume 4) into a short film. Screw the Pepperoni is viewable at http://juliangrant.com/artwork/601513.html. The Family, a dystopian short story about London in 2058, has been selected to be part of an audio book produced by the Tate Modern with stories read by actor Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth, Gone in Sixty Seconds).
The launch of the 2009 Fish Anthology took place in St Brendan's Church, Bantry, Co. Cork. The audience of 200 was treated to a wonderful evening, with nineteen of the 29 writers from the anthology attending, from Japan, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland. All read from their work in a varied and scintillating series of readings. and the anthology was launched by Zimbabwian writer Rory Kilalea, who was giving a workshop at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Ian Wild, overall winner of the Fish Short Story Prize, showed his wide range of acting skills as he read from 'Ten Pint Ted', set in a north of England mining town in the Thatcher era, involving the often surreal relationship between a young man and a ventriloquist dummy.
Winner of the One Page Prize Bernadette M Smyth read her hilarious story - 'In the Car' - of two kids aping adult talk in a beautifully outrageous way
Poetry winner Annie Atkins read her winning poem 'The Locksmith' to a hushed house, and later read her One Page Story 'A Simple Mathematical equation' to much hilarity.
The Fish Anthology is available from bookshops in Ireland and can be ordered through bookshops in most countries, and through Fish Publishing.
RESULTS OF THE 2009 FISH POETRY AND ONE PAGE STORY PRIZES
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 Fish Poetry Prize, as judged by Peter Fallon, and of the 2009 Fish One Page Story Prize, judged by Arthur Mathews.
The 2009 Fish Poetry Prize
First Prize: The Locksmith by Annie Atkins
Runners-up: (Not in order)
I Am by Jane Clarke
I Can Move Stars by Mary O’Gorman
The Long Run by Adam Wyeth
This Corolla, Mama by Marcella Spruce
Highly Commended:
Gap Year by Helena Nolan
Factory Girl (Guangdong Province, China) by Marie Altzinger
Congratulations to these poets, who emerged from a field of 700 to be recognised and selected as winners. The winner and runners-up will be published in the 2009 Fish Anthology.
2009 Fish One Page Prize
First Prize: IN THE CAR by Bernadette M. Smyth
Second Prize: THEORETICALLY by Tom Glover
Third Prize: 71st STREET by Theresa Barnett
Runners Up: (Not in order)
APRIL FOOL AND THE FEMINISTAS by D K McCutchen
NIGHT GAMES by Gerry Galvin
THE LAST BULLET by Fia Kenzie
VIEW FROM LIMBO by Colette Dartford
A SIMPLE MATHEMATICAL EQUATION by Annie Atkins
REINCARNATION by Geraldine Walsh
PLAZA DE ARMAS by Rachel S Mann
The award ceremony for these competitions will be at the launch of the 2009 Fish Anthology, and all of the above poems and one page stories will be published in the anthology along with the winners of the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize. The venue is St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, Co. Cork, at 18.30 on Thursday 9 July. It will be part of the week-long West Cork Literary Festival. The Anthology will include unpublished work from Colum McCann and Peter Fallon.
Shortlist for the 2009 Fish One Page Prize
A promise is a promise
How could he?
Cydia Pornonella
CROWS
Hunting the Stag
Season of the Eclipse
Excavating Eve
Nothing
When a Man Wears a Dress
Corner to Corner
Cross With Ned
Jennifer's Legs
Ghetto Nanny
Palm Sunday
300 words
Inside
A final kiss
At the Restaurant
Apocalypse Later On
Argentina 1978.
Eight Whole Days
Wood Chopper
The Last Bullet
The Witness
Dear Auntie Bernie
Homo sirenae
Assignment
The Ashes
Death Can Get Away from You
The Parcel
Hooked On Fishing
The Princess and the Toad (with apologies to Philip Larkin)
Reincarnation
GULLS
Boom, Bust, Bewilderment
A Simple Mathematical Equation
Pit Tragedy
The Burden
Plaza de Armas
The Sparrow
The Rat Laid An Egg
APRIL FOOL & THE FEMINISTAS
Love and Sex with Robots
Verdun
A Green Christmas
A Night at the Pantheon
Breakwater
Cock up
Like No One's Watching
Fountain of Hope
Sigh Away Sunday
Theoretically
Some Things I Learned Along the Way
Binks
Uncertainty
Shining
artichoke hearts
In the blink of an eye
Nixon for President
Road Trip
The Lesson
Pen Imp
father and son
Scorched Earth
Tom Jones
Acceptance
The Raggedy Boys and the Wraith
View From Limbo
Dr. Pa's Neighborhood Grocery
Flotsam
Six degrees of expatriation
Somebody Get Me My Coat
Recovery
Living in a Shoe Box
Boy on a Train
Homecoming
THE MATTRESS
The Broken Areas
She is Mrs da Tanka
Christmas
Skydiving for Pearls
The Hand (Nonno)
transparency
And the crowd goes wild
sex maniac
Snow
"The Veil"
About Love
When Size Matters
Mr Parker
A Briefer History of Time
Happy Birthday Yer Maj
Virgin Flight 244, Chicago to Heathrow
New Dawn
Something New
Portrait of Zeus as a Young Boy
The Catch
Heat
Life Swap
He Stared Into Her Eyes . . .
Little Doll
Closure, Kind of
I Wait
Petals
The Beach
A Small Thing, but Crucial
Teaching Grandmothers
Jane Wilcox
In the Community
Three Legged Cat
Take Away
House
Scarred for Life
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Newsletter. March 2009.
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize, as chosen by Colum McCann.
First: Ian Wild: Ten Pint Ted
Second: Vanessa Gebbie: The Return of the Baker, Edwin Tregear
Third: Annemarie Neary: Painting over Elsa
Honorable Mentions/Runners-up:
Gerry Boland: Bridie’s Birthday Party
Mair Masuda: A Capitalist Adventure
Derek B. Donahoe: Lad
Elizabeth Kuzara: The Weight of Clouds
Dolores Walshe: Jesus On A Cross With Blu-Tack
Ann Ward: Chicken and Beef
Kathryn Fletcher: Epistle of a Doddery Old Bastard
Congratulations to these ten writers, whose stories were chosen from a field of over 1,500 entries. They will be published in the 2009 Fish Anthology, and awarded their prizes at the Launch on Thurs 9 July at the West Cork Literary Festival. This is a public event and all are welcome.
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The Fish One Page Prize closes on 20 March, and stories of up to 300 words can be entered on-line or by post. All details are on the web site. Arthur Mathews is judging and the winners receive cash prizes – 1,000 Euro for the winner and 100 each for nine runners-up, with all ten published in the 2009 Fish Anthology.
The Fish Poetry Prize closes on 30 March. The winners will be published in the Fish Anthology and there are cash prizes. The competition judge Peter Fallon (poet and owner of Irelands´ largest poetry publishing house – The Gallery Press – will read all of the entries.
Full details of postal and on-line entry, entry fees and rules for these two competitions is on the Fish Web site at www.fishpublishing.com
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Shortlist of the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize
We're pleased to announce the shortlist of 118 stories. This list was selected from an overall entry of over 1,500. Congratulations to all of the authors who have been shortlisted. We enjoyed reading all of the entries. The competition was tough and we were overwhelmed by the quality of the stories.
The final selection will be made by Colum McCann, and will be announced before 17 March on this page. The best ten stories will be published in the 2009 Fish Anthology which will be launched in July at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Bridie’s Birthday Party by Gerry Boland
Life During Wartime by Julia Van Middlesworth
Brain Trash by Sheila Tortolano
Love Sick by Billy O’Callaghan
Chicken and Beef by Ann Ward
Jesus on a Cross with Blue Tac by Dolores Walshe
Swan Teeth by JJ Harrington
Stopped by JJ Harrington
Sleepwalker by Beth Cardier
The Heat of the Moment by Patrick Farncombe
The Littlest One by Jasey O’Faolain
The Absent Friend by Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob
The Weight of Clouds by Elizabeth Kuzara
Dust to Dust by Denise O’Leary
Plastic Bags to Burn by Karren Visser
The Magic of Stories by Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn
The Words I’ll Never Say by Emma Sweeney
The Dead Zoo by Stacey Swann
Not Like Us by Hilary Fennell
Personal Development by Ronnie Nixon
Pink and White and Full of Teeth by Janey Huber
Nurses Are . . . by Richard Watkins
Irish Wolfhound by Patricia Jones
Wounded Moon by Gay Degani
Orca by Austin Duffy
Robin Hoodie by Garret Dwyer-Joyce
The Woman in the Loom by Tracey Jane
Dinner by Christopher Young
A Capitalist Adventure by Mair Masuda
Homesick by Cynthia Ann Cadenaro
The Bath by Joby Williams
Sheebeg by Conor McManus
The Dagger-like Bill of the Gannet by Chris Powell
Darkscapes and the Art of Navigation by Bronwyn Blake
Late by Jane Amanda
The Butterfly Collector’s Wife by Holly Dawson
Titli by Dipika Mukherjee
A Devil in Green Underpants by David Kotok
One Spark by Anthony Howcraft
Painting over Elsa by Annemarie Neary
In It To Win by David Gill
New Look by Jo Cannon
One’s Own by Helen Christine Geoghegan
Three of Swords by Hannah Hutchins
A thief or a Liar by Julie Beckham
Ghosts by Rosalind Brackenbury
The Brothers by Maria Murphy
Fifth Avenue by Alicia Shaw
Some Kind of Suicide by Takashi Kendrick
Transformer by Joan Kane Nichols
Cuthbert Henry Arkwirght by Julie Hetherington
The Night of the Leonid Showers by Mary Larkin
Tinshack by Sue Barmos
In Between by John Leahy
Houston and the Blinking What by Ladee Hubbard
Accidental Death by Kaalii Cargill
If You Can’t go Up by Shereen Pandit
Sticks by Celia Bryce
Softly and Suddenly Vanished Away by Gabriela Blandy
Hari-chigai by K Terumi Shorb
The Reclaimer by Louie Henderson
The Eye by Tina Romero
Candyfloss and Doughnuts by Kate Brown
Another City by Niall Ruddy
The Cheese Sandwiches by John McCabe
The Cleansing by John McCabe
Platypus Soup by Mary Moorkens
Guernica by Evelyn Walsh
Woe Hop on Mott Gai by Michelle Perez
Fast Women by Wes Lee
Length of Days by Joan Corwin
The Days He Had Seen by Matthew Weait
Finding Shelter by Eli Hastings
The Fox and the Placenta by Madeline D’Arcy
New Amsterdam by Brian Kirk
Out of Silence by Mairlis McDwyer
Letters to Loved ones, Auschwitz 1943 by RObert Piller
Trust by Thomas Bernard
Sunday Nights at the Shangri-La by Cindy Dale
Wheel of Fortune by Leanne Radojkovich
Happiness is a Warm Gun by Roy Scranton
Her Amber Eyes by Paul Kang
Emergency (Male) by Ian Madden
The Wrong Idea by Sarah MacLeod
The Vermin Episode by Jacob M Appel
Bear Country by Anna Britten
Room With Backside by Anne Stubbings
The Dancing Telemetrist by Trilby Kent
Roses by David O’Dwyer
The Weekend Job by Stacey Cavanagh
How I began Writing by Yael Nussbaum
Till the Amber Turns to Ashes by Stephen Wade
Together Forever by Susan Lanigan
Opposites Detract by James Fearn
Write by Ido Angel
Ten Pint Ted by Ian Wild
Ratio by Paul Michel
Girl with a Teapot by Coral Atkinson
The Return of the Baker Edwin Treagar by Vanessa Gebbie
Windfalls by Elizabeth Pepper
De Profundis by Tony Murfin
A Town called Fidelity by Adrian Searle
Harmony in Grey and Green, Miss Cicely Alexander by Julia Widdows
The Lucky One by Kathleen Ernst
End of the Rope by Majella Cullinane
Men of the Horse by Sanjay Chopra
Stalag XB by George Chuchla
Some Kind of Comfort by Loree Westron
The Emperor´s Concubine by Michele McGrath
Palais by Rob Smith
A Face From the Past by Andrew Clusker
A Biblical Tale by Owen McDevitt
Frangipani by Cheryl Rogers
JFK Night by Barry Troy
Nothin Neath the Wantin by Douglas Bruton
Elephant by Charlotte Wilby
A Trying Life by Mary D´Arcy
A Crime of Unprovoked Hunger by Patrick Curran
Doddery Old Bastard by Kathryn Fletcher
Lad by Derek B Donahoe
Fish Newsletter, Dec 2008. Fish One-Page Prize opens 17 Dec 2008
Contents:
Fish One-Page Prize.
Micro Fiction winners announced.
Fish Editorial Services.
Fish Short Story Prize update.
The Fish One-Page Prize (Flash Fiction), with Arthur Mathews as judge, is now open for entries.
The best ten stories will be published in the 2009 Fish Anthology in July.
First prize is €1,000, with €50 each for the nine runners-up.
Closing 20 March 09.
Results announced 30 April 09.
There is a limit of 300 words.
Winning stories must be available for the Anthology, and therefore not have been published previously.
Entry fee €12 per story on-line. Critique of story (optional) €25.
Postal entry costs €15 each, and €28 for a critique. Send to Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland.
There is no entry form. Entry is taken as acceptance of the rules of the competition.
For complete details and on-line entry www.fishpublishing.com info@fishpublishing.com
Micro-Fiction Showcase Winners
We are pleased to announce the overall winners of the Fish 2008 Micro-Fiction Showcase. The two winners will each receive a prize of €500, and will be published along with the runners-up in the 2009 Fish Anthology.
In the Prose, or Story category, the overall winner from the three months is Blown Away by Janine M Milicich, Busselton, Western Australia.
Blown Away
There is nothing like the feeling of a child sleeping on you; Like a paperweight, they keep you from blowing away.
As she laid his little body in that ghastly pine box, she was thousands of loose pages in a storm…
The overall winner of the Poetry category is Bottle by Angela Carr, Dublin, Ireland.
Bottle
From a million grains of sand, I poured.
In a fiery blasted womb, I froze.
On slithering metal lines, I danced.
Across jaded gilded throats, I bled.
On a rippled moonlit shore, I rest:
A prodigal return.
Fish Editorial Consultancy
Fish offers a full Editorial Consultancy Service. The Service is designed to provide writers with on-going, constructive feedback on their work, whether it is a complete novel or just the beginnings. All of the details and costs are on our web site –
http://www.fishpublishing.com/editorial-consultancy-service.php
Fish Short Story Prize Update
The competition closed on 14 December, and the stories are being read and shortlisted by Fish editors. Thank you to all who entered. This list will be posted on our web site in February, and the final result, as determined by competition judge Colum McCann, will be announced on 17 March 2009.
Clem Cairns
CLOSURE OF THE FISH KNIFE, SHORT HISTORIES, AND CRIMINALLY-SHORT SHORT HISTORIES PRIZES.
It is with regret that Fish has come to the decision to close these three copmpetitions. If you had a story in any of them, and for some reason have not received an email from Fish, please email us now at info@fishpublishing.com
All who entered are guaranteed entry into the Fish Short Story Prize with their short story, or into the Fish One Page Prize if they entered the Criminally-Short Short Histories Prize, or they can have their entry fee refunded.
I would like to apologize for any inconvenience and dissapointment that this causes.
Clem Cairns. (See personal note below).
Dear Writers.
After a two year absence from Fish, during which time I was developing the West Cork Literary Festival, it is a pleasure to return to the company that myself and Jula Walton started in 1994, and ran until 2006. I would like to thank Jock Howson for his stewardship over the past two years. Jock has moved on to other things, but remains as a consultant to Fish on the On-Line Entry Fish web site, which he instigated and steered through its design and construction when he joined Fish six years ago.
I am looking forward to further developing the Fish Short Story Prize and the Fish One Page Prizes, and the annual Fish Anthology of winning stories, and of making the winning writers involvement in them more worthwhile and rewarding.
Clem Cairns
THE WINNERS OF
THE 3rd FISH INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
ARE:
WINNER:
THE STOLEN SHEELA NI GIG or AGHAGOWER
SPEAKS
JEAN O'BRIEN - PORTARLINGTON, IRELAND
RUNNERS-UP:
DECEASED EFFECTS - SALLY ANNE ADAMS, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, ENGLAND
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE .. - MARY ANNE PERKINS, RICHMOND, ENGLAND
THE DAVID, OUR DAVID - SUSAN KEITH, EUGENE, OREGON, USA
OLD TOWN MAZATLAN - LAURENCE O'DWYER, TIPPERARY, IRELAND
NORTH LAKE - LELAND JAMES, FLORIDA, USA
THE WINNERS OF
THE FISH ONE-PAGE PRIZE 2008
ARE:
WINNER:
WE WILL GO ON AHEAD AND WAIT FOR YOU
MICHAEL LOGAN - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
RUNNERS-UP:
MY NAME IS FOR MY FRIENDS - KEVEN SCHNADIG, NEW YORK, USA
THE BASKET - NICK HODGKINSON, BRISTOL, ENGLAND
MILK RUN - BRUCE STIRLING, CONNECTICUT, USA
THE BUSTERS - FIONA RITCHIE WALKER, BLAYDON, ENGLAND
THE THEME FROM (LOVE STORY) - KURT ACKERMANN, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
BLEAR - ALAN MURPHY, DUBLIN, IRELAND
The Short Lists for the Fish One-Page Prize and the Third Fish International Poetry competition have now been announced.
For the Fish One-Page Prize 2008:
Ancestors - A Snake Awakes - Back There - Big Sister - Blear
Bloom Where You're Planted - Case History - House Gone Blind
Milk Run - My Name Is For My Friends - 100 Year Old Man
Origami - Red Tin of Tobacco - Tasting Pansies - The Basket
The Busters - The Meddler- They Say That belgium is a Nice country
(The Theme From) Love Story - Things About Comin' My Way - Tiptoes Revenge
Visiting Time - We Will Go on Ahead and Wait For You - What Happened Off Ecuador
For the Third Fish International Poetry Prize:
A ghazal is not a gazelle, it's a ghuzzle - A Land of Plenty - An Unequal Dialogue
As luck would have it - Banquet in the Hall of Happiness - Bread
Brief history of politics - Deceased Effects - First words - For her it is me
Instinct - Intelligent Design - In the midst of life . . .
Lies Beneath - Mahon Falls - Même Wars - Nipper, Buck And Me
North Lake - Old Town Mazatlan - On A Beach In Dublin - Roman Road
Safari - Seasons - Son Of The Soil - Straws and Camels - Swan Song
The Art of Becoming You - The Black Rose Turns To Red
The box of beautiful children - The David, Our David - The Good Word
The Stolen Sheela Ni Gig or Aghagower Speaks
The Long List for the Fish One-Page Prize is:
100 YEAR OLD MAN - 6´4"- ALL ARMS & LEGS - A BIT ON THE
SIDE
A SNAKE AWAKES - BACK THERE - BIG SISTER - BLEAR
BLOOM WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED - BLUE CHEESE - BOUCHIER AND CO
COMFORT FOOD - DARREN AND SAMANTHA - DINNER
EXODUS, RWANDA 1994 - FOOTBALL IN CROATIA - FORTY YEARS
FUTILITY - GETTING HOME - GONE DARK FOR A BIT - GREEN - GRIEF
HOUSE GONE BLIND - IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - JANE DOE
LAST B'DAY - (THE THEME FROM) LOVE STORY - LOVE YOU FOREVER!
MARS AND VENUS - MESSAGES - MILK RUN - MY NAME IS FOR MY FRIENDS
NATURALLY, FLOTSAM - OLD BOB - ONCE IN VENICE - ORIGAMI
PASSING SHIPS - PIGEON LOVE - RED TIN OF TABACCO
REVOLUTION IS NOT A TEA PARTY - SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNSAID
SOUNDSCAPE - STEALING MOMENTS - STELLA BY STARLIGHT
STUCK THROUGH THE BONES WITH LOVE - SUSPECT
THE BASKET - THE BUSTERS - THE CHAIR - THE EYES HAVE IT
THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING COM - THE MEDDLER
THE UNRECOGNISED CONTRIBUTION OF THE JACK RUSSELL TERRIER
THINGS ABOUT COMIN' MY WAY - THIS ONE DAY . . . IN ART CLASS
THREE-MINUTE CHILD - THEY SAY THAT BELGIUM IS A NICE COUNTRY
TIPTOES REVENGE - TOFU, NOT BONES - TWO BREATHS OF GREEN
VISITING TIME - WATERPROOF, LIGHTWEIGHT, GOOD IN SNOW
WE WILL GO ON AHEAD AND WAIT FOR YOU
WHAT HAPPENED OFF ECUADOR - WHEN SHE SPEAKS - YELLOW FEATHERS
Winners will be announced on the 30th of April
THE WINNERS OF
THE FISH SHORT STORY PRIZE 2007
ARE:
WINNER:
HARLEM RIVER BLUES - JULIA van MIDDLESWORTH, NEW JERSEY, USA
SECOND:
IN BETWEEN - JUSTINE MANN, LONDON, ENGLAND
THIRD:
SCHOTTISCHE - JOHN BOLLAND, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND
RUNNERS-UP:
ALL STATIONS TO EPPING - KELLY O'REILLY, LONDON, ENGLAND
LIFE AND LETTERS - PAUL BROWNSEY, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
SOON YOU WON'T SEE ME - WES LEE, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
THE HEN PARTY - JANIS FREEGARD, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
THE JOB OF SEX - SARAH DUNNAKEY - WEST YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
THE POINT OF IMPACT- GARY MALONE, NSW, AUSTRALIA
SHORT-LIST - The Fish Short Story Prize 2007
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying stories
for the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize short-list.
A Soldier of the Woods
All Stations To Epping
Babies' Breath
Brown Bird: Yellow Tree
Central Park
Cowboy Williams Dances
Crossover
Enki And The Smart Bomb
Fish Tale
Harlem River Blues
Hurrying Handbags to Kyleakin
In Between
Jacob's Ladder
Life And Letters
Scottische
Soon You Won't See Me
Stalking Sophie
Staying Power
The Burning
The Dyan's Daughter
The Hen Party
The Job of Sex
The Parcel
The Point of Impact
The Second America
This Moment Between Things
Wheat
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. . Words From a Glass Bubble
Vanessa Gebbie, runner-up in the Fish Short Story Prize 2006 has just had her new collections of short stories "Words From a Glass Bubble" published by Salt Publishing.
"Ruth Padel, in her latest book, described some poems as having "a taut cat's cradle of sonic echoing". Some stories here create a similar cat's cradle of concepts...Enough good pieces in enough styles for the book to be used as an anthology demonstrating how stories should be written nowadays". (Tim Love, on Tim Love's Literary References)
A small sample of Vanessa's writing is available to read in our Short Stories to Read on Line area and you can buy her book from Salt Publishing or Buy it now from Amazon.co.uk.
Vanessa has agreed to judge this year's Fish One-Page Prize and will be at this year's West Cork Literary Festival to present the prizes and to run a very, very short story competition of her own.
LONG-LIST - The Fish Short Story Prize 2007
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying stories for the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize long-list. Winners will be announced on 17th March 2008.
The Long-listed Stories are:
1959
A Clouded Yellow Year - A Cambodian Symphony: Four Movements and a Second Wind
A Lunar Number - A Matter of Control - A Soldier of the Woods
A Thousand Needles - A Wednesday Evening - Accidents Happen
All Stations to Epping - All The Roads That Lead From Home
An Accidental life - As the Buddha Lies
Babies' Breath - Bandstand in the Rain - Blind Drunk
Between Wave Crash and Silence - Brainsex and the Masculinists
Brown Bird: Yellow Tree - Brahman Black Eyes
By the River's Edge - Brim is Gorgeous
Can You Do A Dublin Accent? - ccggaagffeeddc - Central Park - Charnel Relations
Cold Turkey - Cotton - Counting - Cowboy Williams Dances - Crossover
Daddy - Day of Reckoning - Diminished - Dumb Noise - Dyads
Enki and the Smart Bomb
Falsely Accused - Fields of Gold - Finding Treasure - Fish Tale
For Love of The Pierre Bonnard - Foul play
Go Back, Gorgeous - God's Breath
Harlem River Blues - How To Stay Lost - Howling of a Dog
Hurrying Handbags to Kyleakin
In between - Istiraha Café
Jacob's Ladder
Life and Letters - Losing it
Meat - Melton: the place to be... - Mrs Success - Her First Attempt
New Shoes - Nietzsche and the Cleaning Lady
Old Dog Barking - One of Those Days - Out of Season
Patricia Doheney - Port Fairy
Quitting
Regrette Rien
Sadie's View - Scottische (To the tune of A Trip to Sligo )
Serafina - Shakespeare's Garden - Someone New to Care For
Soon You Won't See Me - Stalking Sophie - Staying Power
Stein(ed) Rose - Stella - Spread the word
The Badly Madly Lodger - The Beach in the Garden - The Blackmail Letter
The Cellist's Hands, The Barmaid's Shoes - The Cat Meat Man
The Chip-Shop Girls - The Day of the Bear - The Emperor's New Underwear
The Errand - The Expatriate - The Fishwife - The Front Seat Passenger
The Gift - The Hanging Basket - The Hen Party - The Intruder - The Job of Sex
The Never Fair - The Parcel - The Preservation Society - The Point of Impact
The Recycler - The Rumourmonger - The Samurai's Cry - The Second America
The Silver Stopper - The Shadow - The Traffic Tuner - The True History of Paul Bunyan
They Know I Am Beneath Them - Things That Make Me Sweat
This Moment Between Things - This is Where I Leave My Heart
Together Forever - Town Car
Vostock VI
Wake - Wailing - Walking Backwards - Wheat
Wingbeat - Words From The East End , July, 1903
Keith
Souter, 2006 winner of the Fish Historical Short Fiction Prize has just
had his latest novel published by Robert Hale.
Read a recent interview with Keith (One of our judges for the 2007 Summer
Competitions!) and "The
Pardoner's Crime" a historical crime novel set around
the beautiful Sandal Castle.
Congratulations to Keith from everyone here at Fish Publishing.
THE WINNERS OF
THE FISH-KNIFE AWARDS 2007
ARE:
WINNER:
THE DYAN'S DAUGHTER- LINDA EVANS, HIGH WYCOMBE, ENGLAND
RUNNERS-UP:
TO BE AN ANGEL - DOUGLAS BRUTON, WEST LINTON, SCOTLAND
BABIES' BREATH - KATHY COOGAN, CINCINNATI, OHIO
WHO PICKED KRIVOKAPIC'S BRAIN? - ANDREW GEDDES, SIDCUP, ENGLAND
ANYTHING FOR YOU - SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD, DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA
WHITE CRAYONS - GORDON HOPKINS, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
THE WINNERS OF
THE SHORT HISTORIES AWARDS 2007
ARE:
WINNER:
THE BURNING - CLARE GIRVAN, EXETER, ENGLAND
RUNNERS-UP:
TAKING THE KING'S SHILLING - MIN LEE, GERS, FRANCE
THE TRUE HISTORY OF BONA LOMBARDA - VAL WATERHOUSE, SONDRIO, ITALY
THE SILVER STOPPER - SARAH LINE LETELLIER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
THE SONS OF CAIN - PATRICK HOLLAND, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
TYMES OF MONSTERS - LYNDA McDONALD, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
THE WINNERS OF THE
CRIMINALLY-SHORT SHORT HISTORIES AWARDS 2007
ARE:
HISTORY WINNER:
KILMAINHAM DAWN - MICHELE McGRATH, ISLE OF MAN
JOINT CRIME WINNERS:
WOMAN WANT - BRUCE STIRLING,
CONNICTICUT
MIDNIGHT MARK - RAY SPARVELL, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
HISTORICAL-CRIME WINNER
FALL RIVER, AUGUST 1892 - SARAH HILARY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
RUNNERS UP:
TRAIN OF THOUGHT - ELIZABETH KUZARA, WYOMING
THE BENEFITS OF ARSENIC - NIAMH RUSSELL, Co. WICKLOW
THE EYAM STONES - SARAH HILARY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
THE SANDMEN OF SYRACUSE - STUART DELVES, EDINBURGH
As usual the crime stories have split our judges so, as with last years
Fish-Knife Award, we have joint winners of the Crime section of the
Criminally-Short Short Histories Award. Each winner in this section
will receive 250 Euro in prize money and 10 copies of the Fish Anthology
2008. Our other winners will receive 500 Euro each plus the anthologies,
and the runners-up will each receive 100 euro and 5 copies of the Anthology.
All these winning stories will appear in the 2008 Anthology and all
of the winners will be invited to read their stories at the Book Launch
and Awards Ceremony in July of 2008.
Congratulations to all the winners and runner's-up, and especially to
Sarah Mellor who won the Historical-Crime section and also was runner-up
in the Historical section, and so will have two stories in the Fish
Anthology 2008.
Winning Fish Author CARYS DAVIES has her first short-story collection published!
The Short-lists for the Fish Summer Competitions have now been announced.
They are:-
For The Fish-Knife Award:
Anything for You
Babies' Breath
Breaking it
Liar, Liar
Magic Beans
Salem Witch Hunt now on the Internet
The Death of the Aardvark
The Dyan's Daughter
The Last Campaign
The Madness of History
To Be An Angel
White Crayons
Who Picked Krivokapic's Brain? *
For Short Histories III:
A Fallen Man
A Fallen Soldier
Fortune and Men's Eyes
How Arif Learned to Hear
Succubus
Taking The King's Shilling
The Burning
The Silver Stopper
The Sons of Cain
The True History of Nona Lombarda
Tymes of Monsters
Viseons of the Apocalypse
For the Criminally-Short Short Histories Award: **
Two Marquises
Morning Hate
Train of Thought
Last Will
The Nurse
Bobo's Hobby.
The Sandmen of Syracuse
Radio Day
Picasso and Fernande
A Stubborn Flaw
The ten unfortunate incidents in Egypt
No Butts
Eviva Il Coltello
The Benefits of Arsenic
Things About Comin' My Way
Historical Research is Easy on the Internet
Long Nap By The Pool
Kilmainham Dawn
Time Crime
Midnight Mark
The Death of Fetterman
The Long And The Short Of It
Woman Want
Old School Ties
The Eyam Stones
Fall River , August 1892
Accessory
* Who Picked Krivokapic's Brain? was originally long-listed under the Short Histories Listings, because it was submitted there accidentally.
** The Short list and the Long list for the Criminally Short Short Histories Award are the same because we felt all of the finalists were good enough to go for final consideration.
The ultimate winners of this summer's very short fiction
competitions have now been announced.
The final winners were decided by the votes of many hundreds
of Fish Authors and the, in the poetry section in particular, the competition
was very close, but the final winners were:
Don't Just Lie There .........................The Offering
Andrew Irvine - London, England ............G.S. Westfield - Florida, USA
The long-lists for the Fish Summer Competitions have also just been released. The stories under review, listed by title only to retain anonymity, are:
For The Fish-Knife Award:
Magic Beans
The Last Campaign
Babies' Breath
White Crayons
The Dyan's Daughter
liar, Liar
To Be An Angel
The Heart of the Matter
Untethered
Breaking It
High Tariff
Sonata
Nikita's Revenge
The Death of the Aardvark
ANYTHING FOR YOU
Foul play
....to Roost.
Mr Butterfill's Misdemeanours
Salem Witch Hunts now on the Internet
The Madness of History
The Mermaid's Song
THE CAILLEACH
An Opportunity Seized
Anniversary Cruise
Hidden Among Leaves
For Short Histories III
Who Picked Krivokapic's Brain?
Caught
The True History of Bona Lombarda: A 15th Century Woman of Arms
Recognition
Fortune and Men's Eyes
A Fallen Man
Succubus
The Picture of his Mother
The Preferable Pedro
Viseons of the Apocalypse
How Arif Learned to Hear
Mare Nostrum
Memento Maori
A Fallen Soldier
Rocket Science
The Pearl
Tymes of Monsters
Wakes Week
The Silver Stopper
The Sons of Cain
Taking the King's Shilling
To The End of the Night
Boucher's Girl
Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon
The Burning Com
Straight from the Mouth of Harry J Flint
The Passing
For The Criminally-Short Short Histories Award:
Two Marquises
Morning Hate
Train of Thought
Last Will
The Nurse
Bobo's Hobby.
The Sandmen of Syracuse
Radio Day
Picasso and Fernande
A Stubborn Flaw
The ten unfortunate incidents in Egypt
No Butts
Eviva Il Coltello
The Benefits of Arsenic
Things About Comin' My Way
Historical Research is Easy on the Internet
Long Nap By The Pool
Kilmainham Dawn
Time Crime
Midnight Mark
The Death of Fetterman
The Long And The Short Of It
Woman Want
Old School Ties
The Eyam Stones
Fall River , August 1892
Accessory
We have been delayed by a significant computer progam, so our apologies to everyone out there aho are still on tenter-hooks. We will get the final short lists out as soon aspossible and we still hope to announce the winners at the end of November
The Fish Anthology 2007 was launched
in the Maritime Hotel, Bantry on Friday 13th July 2007. Their were well
over two hundred guests, and Authors arrived from all over the world
to read from their winning stories and poems and to accept their prizes.
The prizes were awarded by two of the judges, Clem Cairns and Michael
Collins, and the evening was hosted by Jock Howson, Editor of the Fish
Anthology, "A Paper heart Is Beating A Paper Boat Sets Sail."
You can buy the Anthology now from the
Fish On-Line Bookshop.
The wiiner of the Fish Art-Work Prize 2007 was
William
Ferrante, Paper Boats on Paper
Reading, England
The Runners-up are:
Sandra
Gorter - Coming Round the Bottom End
Aukland, New Zealand
J.J. Ferguson- Heart Beat
Glasgow, Scotland
Nancy
Bohm - I Drag My Boat Across The Ocean
Denver, Colorado, USA
Rebecca
Remme - Dreamboat
Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
John
Donaldson - A Distant Tide
Perth, Scotland
The WINNER of the
Second Fish International Poetry Prize
is:
TIM LENTON - WITH HIS POEM
The Island Grows On Me
Norwich, England
Tim
Lenton was born in 1945, is married with an adult son and two grandchildren.
He has lived in Coventry and London and in the Norfolk countryside,
but is now back in the centre of Norwich, the city where he was born.
"Although I've written poetry off and on most of my life, I've only
really been concentrating on it for the last four years, after taking
early retirement from my job as a journalist on the Eastern Daily Press
in Norwich, for whom I still write a fortnightly semi-humorous commentary
page." www.back2sq1.co.uk
"I am a member of InPrint, a visual arts and poetry collaborative group based in Norwich and its members have been a big inspiration to me. www.inprintartsandpoetry.co.uk This particular poem was sparked by a recent holiday with friends on the island of Captiva , Florida . As well as writing, I get a kick out of chess and hill-walking (not easy in Norfolk ). Among my favourite poets are: W.B.Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen, and Gerard Manley Hopkins"
The Runners-up are:
Nancy Burke - Philosophy
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Debra Shulkes - Where
Prague, Czech Republic
Allan Wyer - On the Concourse
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, USA
Susan Keith - A Festive Holiday Photo
Eugene, Oregon, USA
The WINNER of the
Fish One-Page Prize 2007 is:
PATRICIA MIDDLETON - WITH HER VERY SHORT STORY
SKATERS
Saint Mathieu, France
Patricia
was born and educated in north Yorkshire and read English at Leicester
University. Then she worked as a teacher and librarian in Essex and
Devon.
She has three grown-up children and has lived in France for four years with her tame artist husband and four semi-feral cats who are no use as paper-weights.
Paricia has written short stories, poetry, radio and stage plays, but so far no novels. Her favourite book is 'Madame Bovary', and her heroes are Nelson Mandela and Freddie Flintoff.
The Runners-up are:
Claire Anderson-Wheeler - Body Beautiful
Dublin, Ireland
Vicky Grut - Two Brothers
London, England
Richard Holeton - Calling Fruits and Vegetables
Montara, California, USA
Julie Koh - HELENA J. GINSBURG (1980-2007)
Concord West, NSW, Australia
Antonia Fenton - Always Read The Label
Crawley, West Sussex, England
The WINNER of the
Fish Short Story Prize 2006/7 is:
KATHLEEN MURRAY WITH HER STORY
A Paper Heart Is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail
Dublin, Ireland
From Carlow originally, Kathleen traveled for a while around Asia, Canada
and the US, but has now lived in Dublin for a good number of years.
She graduated with a Psychology Degree and a Masters in Women's Studies
from Trinity College, and works as an independent social researcher.
In the autumn of 2004 she attended a creative writing course with Nuala
Ni Dhomhnaill and only through this did she start to write short stories.
"A few of my stories have written themselves and some I have to put a lot more work into. A Paper Heart Is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail arrived as an end, and then a beginning, and I had to put most effort into filling up what happened in between. I am a great reader- novels, short stories, comics, poetry, anything, and I think good writing gave me the inclination to attempt to write. I am delighted and astounded to win The Fish Short Story Prize at only my second attempt. I was long-listed last year and I was very shook and completely thrilled when I came to believe that I had actually won this time. ( I thought it was a nasty E-mail trick! ) I feel that it is the story itself that has won though, not me, and I am pleased most of all for the story itself!"
Runner-Up*
Lane Ashfeldt with her story
Dancing on Canvey
* Lane's story was entered into the Fish Short Story Prize as the winner of Short Histories II. (See Below.) The Judges awarded her Second place in the 2006 Fish Short Story Prize. Unfortunately the rules state that you can only win one prize, so Lane has decided to accept the Short Histories Award, and her story will be published in the Fish Anthology 2007 as the winner of Short Histories II
Second Place Prize Winner
Vanessa Gebbie with her story
Words From a Glass Bubble
East Sussex, England
Vanessa was the result of a series of small collisions between a travelling
salesman called Eric and a student nurse. She was given away at birth,
brought up by a wonderful Welsh family and spent her child -hood in
Wales and the West Country. She now lives in East Sussex and has been
writing fiction for four years. She writes to try to make sense of life's
ups and downs. [More]
Vanessa teaches Creative Writing, and particularly enjoys working with those on society's margins. She has her own magazine for writing by those whose lives have been touched by addiction, at www.tomsvoicemagazine.com .
Her first novel is gestating. For further information: www.vanessagebbie.com
Third Place Prize Winner
Merryn Glover with her story
Rush of Water
Kingussie, Scotland
Born
in Kathmandu, Merryn grew up in Nepal, India and Pakistan. After a teaching
degree in Australia (the country of her passport), she moved to Scotland
in 1993 and worked freelance as a drama/dance artist and teacher. She
and her husband later returned to Nepal where Merryn taught English
at an international school and started writing in earnest. Back in Scotland
since 2001, Merryn's writing time is now squeezed in and around the
lives of two young sons.
Her first major work was the play The Long Way Home, staged in '97 and broadcast on Radio Scotland the following year. She has published several articles and short stories and is working on a novel.
In 2004 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Bursary for a series of stories set in Nepal. Rush of Water is one of that series.
The Runners-up are:
Stuart Tallack* - The Nucker Hole
West Sussex, England
Wayne Price- Everywhere Was Water Once
Aberdeen, Scotland
Janey Runci - The Caravan
Maldon, Victoria, Australia
Jo Cannon - Insignificant Gestures
Chesterfield, England
Lily Mabura - Man in Ultramarine Pajamas
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Paul Byall - Rookie of the Year
Savannah, Georgia, USA
* Stuart Tallak also features as a runner-up in Short Histories II
All these stories will be published as part of this year's bumper edition of the Fish Anthology, along with the winners of Short Histories II, the Historical One-Page Prize, and The Fish-Knife Award
Short list and Long-list for the Fish Short story Prize 2006
You can order your copy of the Fish Anthology 2007 NOW! For delivery in July. Simply call into the FISH SHOP
SHORT-LIST - The Second Fish International Poetry Prize
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying poems for the Second Fish International Poetry Prize short-list. Winners was announced early 10th May 2007,
The Gift of Flight - M. Lee Alexander
You're Not From Here, Are You? - Graham Allen
Philosophy - Nancy Burke
Thunder - Nancy Burke
Beyond Worth - Laura Chan
Listening to Death - Emer Fallon
A Life - Aideen Foley
Executrix - Eilis Foran
Changing Cadence - Sheila Hanrahan
The Gods Must Be Crazy - Luisa Igloria
The Labour of Sympathy - Ruth Johnson
A Festive Holiday Photo - Susan Keith
The Island Grows On Me - Tim Lenton
Lakin Street Thrift Shop - Tony Luebbermann
Greetings from the Funny Farm - Alan McMonagle
November Day Trip - Helena Nolan
A Bite Out of the Moon - Nancy Norton
Lost Crickets - Paul Ó Colmáin
St. Michaels - Karen O'Connor
New York Winter - Patricia Mansfield Phelan
New Moon - Treekisser Random
Travel Scrabble - Catherine Roantree
Flying with Fins - Marlin Santoso
Where - Debra Shulkes
Girls with Sideburns - Victor Tapner
The Ambassador and His Wife Take Afternoon Tea at the Orient Hotel - Victor Tapner
Flannery O'Connor - Billie Travalini
First Born - Eithne Walsh
On The Concourse - Al Lee Wyre
SHORT-LIST - The Fish One-Page Prize 2007
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying stories for the 2007 Fish One-page Prize short-list. Winners will be announced on 1st May 2007, when the full short list of Author's will be published.
Claire Anderson-Wheeler - Body Beautiful
Val Banister - STARS
Michele Boylan - Furlough
David Cox - Blobs
Kevin Crespo - Last
Liz Davey - The Beginning of the End
David Frankel -The Hatchling
Vicky Grut - Two brothers
Helene Heaney - Losing My Religion
Julie Henson - Turban Wallah
Richard Holeton - Calling Fruits and Vegetables
Kellie Jackson - In Her Pocket
Julie Koh - HELENA J. GINSBURG (1980-2007)
Maria Lane - St Ant'ny's Runt
Tracy Lee - Staying Alive
Devin Liddell - Bureau of Dominions
Valya Dudycz Lupescu - "We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground"
Virginia Matthews - All Expenses Paid
Patricia Middleton - SKATERS
Bernadette Owens - The Afterclap
Jane Paterson - Always Read the Label
Cynthia Reeves - The Uneaten Pear
Katherine Reynolds - Rainy Sunday
Marlin Santoso - On Air
Wendy Storer - Too much too little too late
Anne Stubbings - A milky instant
Yvonne Eve Walus - The Upgrade
Christie Watson - Starfish
LONG-LIST - The Second Fish International Poetry Prize
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying authors for the 2007 Fish International Poetry Prize long-list. Winners will be announced on 1st May 2007.
Diana Adams - M. Lee Alexander - Graham Allen - Alba Barrie - Nancy Burke
Anne Calton - Laura Chao - Marie Coveney - Andrew Clarke - Davina Curoopen
Emer Fallon - Michael Farry - Aideen Foley - Eilis Foran - Peter Gesovic
Sheila Hanrahan - Luisa Igloria - Ruth Johnson - Susan Keith
Brendan Carey Kinane - Maria Lane - Tim Lenton - Tony Luebbermann
Gita Mammen - Alan McMonagle - Erin Murphy - Helena Nolan - Nancy Norton
Paul Ó Colmáin - Karen O'Connor - Anne O'Malley - Pat O'Shea
Patricia Mansfield Phelan - Tim Quinlan -Treekisser Random - Janice Rebibo
Catherine Roantree - Marlin Santoso - Debra Shulkes - Victor Tapner
Billie Travalini - Eithne Walsh - Laura Williamson -Allan Wyer
LONG-LIST - The Fish One-Page Prize 2007
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying authors for the 2007 Fish One-page Prize long-list. Winners will be announced on 1st May 2007.
Claire Anderson-Wheeler - Val Bannister - Jackie Blake - Chris Boothby
Michele Boylan - Becky Bradford - Maire Cooney - Kay Cotton - David Cox
Kevin Crespo - Dave Curtain - Mark Dalligan - Liz Davey - Mary Dewhirst
Alan Falkingham - Julie Farnworth - David Frankel - Vicky Grut
Fernanda Habermann - Sheila Hanrahan - Helene Heaney - George Hebden
Julie Henson - Richard Holeton - Clare Hunter - Kellie Jackson
Glenn Erik Johannessen - Vic Joyce - Julie Koh - Maria Lane - Tracy Lee
Wes Lee - Devin Liddell - Annie Lindberg - Amaali Lokuge
Valya Dudycz Lupescu - Virginia Matthews - Maria McAteer
Patricia Middleton - Richard Molloy - Christine O'Neill - Bernadette Owens
Jane Paterson - Gina Perry - John Piggott - Ruby Radburn - Cynthia Reeves
Dan Reilly - Katherine Reynolds - Mark Rickman - Rosemarie Rose
Nollaig Rowan - Marlin Santoso - Wendy Storer - Anne Stubbings
Mark Sutz - Eleanor Taylor - Fiona Thackeray - Eve Thomson - Kate Tough
Yvonne Eve Walus - Sarah Ward - Christie Watson - Alan Wilson
Winners of the Fish-Knife Award 2006
For the first time Fish are announcing JOINT WINNERS of one of our writing awards. The judges were unable to decide between two great stories so the joint winners of the inaugural FISH-KNIFE AWARD are:
EWAN GAULT and ORLAITH O'SULLIVAN
Orlaith O'Sullivan - Gilt
Madeira, Portugal
This
year Orlaith sold up and moved from Devon to Madeira to give herself
time and space to write fiction. Before that, she completed a Ph.D.
at TCD, lectured in English literature, and curated a private book collection
in Michigan. She has worked on Wall Street and for Devon County Council.
She is the author of academic articles, and editor of several British
Library publications. ´Gilt´will be her first piece of fiction
published. She was born in Dublin to Cork parents.
In addition to short stories, she is working on a trilogy of novels
and a screenplay. The abundance of local wine is not helping matters.
Ewan Gault - Honeysuckle and Cat's Piss
Tokyo, Japan
Ewan was
born in Kuwait in 1981, grew up in lots of different places but mainly
Scotland and graduated from Glasgow University`s creative writing
masters course with a distinction this summer. The story, Honeysuckle
and Cats Piss is one of the chapters of his recently completed novel
The Fine Young Blades, which he is hoping to find a publisher for.
Other chapters have been published as runner up prize in last years
Scotsman/Orange short story competition and in an anthology of
Scottish writing called Outside of a Dog.
The Runners-up are:
Linda Evans - Normal service will be resumed shortly
Buckinghamshire, England
Polly Nelson - Air Cowboys
New Jersey, USA
Martin Bott - Luz
Zurich, Switxerland
Marc Phillips* - Caye Caulker Tides
Texas, USA
( *Winner - The Fish Short Story Prize 2005)
These stories will be published as part of this year's bumper edition of the Fish Anthology, along with the winners of Short Histories II, and the Historical One-Page Prize.
The Fish-Knife Award prize will be split evenly between Ewan and Orlaith
each receiving €800 and 10 copies of the Anthology, together with
an engraved Silver Fish Knife each.
The runners-up receive €100 each and will also be published in
the Anthology.
Winners of the Historical Short Fiction Prize 2006
The overall winner of this year's Historical One-Page Prize is:
Keith Souter with his very-short story "The Villain's Tale"
Keith
Souter was born in St Andrews, Scotland and educated at Dundee
University. He is a part time general practitioner, newspaper columnist,
medical author and novelist (under two pen-names).
He has lived and worked in Wakefield for twenty-seven years, within arrow-shot of Sandal Castle, hence his interest in matters historical.
He is married to Rachel and they have three grown up children and a granddaughter.
The Runners-up are:
Jessie J. Ellis - Knoxville 1899
Michigan, USA
Kimball Ann Richards - The Morning We Started To Leave
Vancouver, Canada
Rosemarie Rose - Shapes
Cwmbran, South Wales
Zoe Sinclair - That Sweet May Morning
Kent, England
These stories will be published as part of this year's bumper edition of the Fish Anthology, along with the winners of Short Histories II, and the inaugural Fish-Knife Award.
Keith receives the winners prize of €1,000 and 10 copies of the Anthology. The runners-up receive €100 each and will also be published in the Anthology.
Winners of Short Histories II
The overall winner of this year's Short Histories II competition is:
Lane Ashfeldt with her story "Dancing on Canvey"
Lane
Ashfeldt was born in London to Irish parents, and grew up in Dublin.
She has travelled widely and currently lives in Holloway, north London.
Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, in the online fiction
magazine Pulp Net, and in the Irish literary journal Southword.
Another story, 'Off the Map', came second in The Guardian Sci-Talk prize. Lane is currently completing a first novel towards which she was awarded an Arts Council England grant. Her next project will be a collection of short fiction.
The Runners-up are:
Jo Campbell* - A Journey to the Sun
London, England
( *Winner - Short Histories 2005)
Leslie Patterson - The Medical Glance
Colorado, USA
Margaret Mulvihill - A Goose of a Swan
London, England
Carys Davies - Waking the Princess
Lancaster, England
Stuart Tallack - Cerulean
West Sussex, England
These stories will be published as part of this year's bumper edition of the Fish Anthology, along with the winners of the Fish One-Page Prize, and the inaugural Fish-Knife Award.
Lane receives the winners prize of €1,500 and automatically goes forward to the final short list for this year's Fish Short Story Prize. The runners-up receive €100 each and will also be published in the Anthology.
SHORT-LIST - The Fish Short Story Prize 2006
Here, in alphabetical order, are the qualifying stories for the 2006
Fish Short Story Prize short-list.
.
- Jacob M. Appel - Invasive Species
- Lane Ashfeldt - Dancing on Canvey ( Winner of the Short Histories Award 2006)
- David Busis - Pink Elephant
- Paul Byall - Rookie of the Year (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Jo Cannon - Insignificant Gestures (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Douglas Danoff - The Trader Thief
- Eleanor Edmond - Messers
- Skye Farrah - Rules for Moving
- Ewan Gault - Honeysuckle and Cat's Piss (Joint Winer of the Fish-Knife Award 2006)
- Vanessie Gebbie - Words from A Glass Bubble (2nd Prize Winner Fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Merryn Glover - Rush of Water (3rd Prize Winner Fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Beatrix Jenness - The Beginning, The End, The Beginning
- Malcolm Johnson - Eel Stew
- Elaine Lambert - The Prince of Lisnamore
- Brendan Landers - The Scholarship Class
- Miranda Lewis - Joze's Book
- Lily Mabura - Man in Ultramarine Pajamas (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Natalie McNabb - Afters
- Kathleen Murray - A Paper Heart
is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail
( Winner Fish Short Story Prize 2006 )
- Paul Newman - The Bee Cathcher's Mother
- Orlaith O'Sullivan - Gilt (Joint Winer of the Fish-Knife Award 2006)
- Wayne Price - Everywhere Was Water Once (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Robyn Rose - Mauritius Tangerine and Onion
- Nollaig Rowan - Absence
- Janey Runci - The Caravan (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- T. Stores - Fisher
- Stuart Tallack - The Nucker Hole (Runner-up fish Short Story Prize 2006)
- Eleanor Thom - Italian Verbs
LONG-LIST - The Fish Short Story Prize 2006
Here, in approximate alphabetical order, are the qualifying authors
for the 2006 Fish Short Story Prize long list. (Authors whose name appears
twice have two entries on the long-list.)
Winners will be announced on 17th March 2007.
Susan Allen - Jacob M. Appel - Catherine Avery - Barry Baldwin
Malcolm Bish - Gabriela Blandy - David Busis - Paul Byall - Jo Cannon
Jo Cannon - Justin Carroll - Leslie Carter - R.N.Homer Christensen
Joan Christie - Finn Clarke - Terence Clarke - Gordon Collins
Adam Connors - Rosemary Conry - Sandy Critchley - Judy Crozier
Douglas Danoff - Carys Davies - Rianna Dear - Julie De Fina
Christine Donovan - Michael Dugdale - Eleanor Edmond - Grace Edusei
Owen Egerton - James Ellis - Rob Ewing - Rob Ewing - Skye Farrah
Michael J. Farrell - Ray Flanagan - Dave Freda - Merryn Glover
Sara Goff - Owen Goodwyne - C.O. Gorman - Liz Granirer
Pippa Griffin - Jonathan Haylett - Tania Hershman - Phil Jell
Beatrix Jenness - Malcolm Johnson - Maria Kaplun - Mikki Katz
Susi Klare -Elaine Lambert - Brendan Landers - Susan Lanigan
Julia LaSalle - Wes Lee - M. A. Leighton - Miranda Lewis
Lily Mabura -Billy Maddox -Pat Maher - Robin Marsden
Fred McGavran -Toby McGrath -Natalie McNabb
Rosalind Minett - Lucy Moore - Carole Morin -Brian Mullally
Christine Murphy - Kathleen Murray - Polly Nelson - Paul Newman
Anthony O'Keefe - Heather Peace - Elizabeth Pienaar - Joanna Piucci
S.C. Pribil - Wayne Price - Gaby Pritchard - Benedict Quinn
P.M. Rae - Jean Rafferty - LeAnne Ray - Jeffrey Roesgen
Robyn Rose - Leone Ross - Nollaig Rowan - Janey Runci
Ahmad Saidullah - Laura Santina - Mark Scott - Myra Sherman
Bridget Shirley - Jill Siddall - Daniel Smith - Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn
James Stark - Connla Stokes - T.Stores - Stuart Tallack
Travis Taylor - Chris Teear - Eleanor Thom - Polly Tuckett
Christopher Watson - Jane Watson - Sarah Weir - Erin Wilcox
Tobias Williams - Lyn Willmott -Pia Wilson -Yiqing Zhao
"Fish Publishing - what can I say? You are legend. Just keep doing what your doing. You are a model of success for publishing and literary festivals. I certainly wish you increasing fame and am singing your praises over here. Winning the Fish Prize is a validation. I'm one of those writers who is often wracked with self-doubt and definitely need a nod from people whose opinions I respect. The Fish Prize is a big YES stamp. Yes, Katie, keep writing, you can do it. I'm off to start my next story. It has a dog in it and that's all I'm telling you."
- Katie Henderson, from Auckland, NZ, winner of the 2005 Fish Short Story Prize
Alumni Page
We have an Alumni page here on the website. We would like to hear from all the past Fish winners and finalists about what they're up to now. Email us with an update. Visit the Alumni page to see what other winners have been up to.