Title

Author

The Rider

Adrian Benson

The Not Knowing

Ailsa Cox

Pass the Salt and Tell a Lie

Aine Greaney

Loose Ends

Aisling Maguire

River Walk

Alan Beard

Black Sheep

Alan Montgomery

Her Rings

Albert Howard Carter, III

The Great Indian Shave

Alex King

Herring Judgement

Alison Armstrong

Before Words Were Invented

Alison Key

Past Caring

Alys Cambray

The Yoga Teacher

Amana Khan

Raspberries

Amanda Fergusson

Viva Espana

Amanda Nicol

Round

Amy Shucksburgh

One Accidental Night

Andrea Watsmore

The Goodness of DIY

Andrew Fox

Obliviated

Angela Meyer

A Mineral WInd

Angus Gaunt

No For the Weans

Ann Jolly

Reaping Summer

Anna Byrne

Diving Through the Void

Anne Cleasby

Sunbird

Annie Kirby

Beat

Anthony Howcraft

One Page Ahead

Anthony Howcroft

No Space in Album 7

Austun Kenny

Fear

Beda Higgins

Undesirable Objects

Betsy Klein

Taxi

Blanche Le Marchant

Ugly Letters

Blynis Gertsch-Davison

Where Is Cheyenne and Who on Earth Wants to Go There?

Bonnie McCune

A Boy's Truth

Brent Condon

Rat Run

Brian Edington

How to Kill a Turtle

Brian Jones

Love, War and Friends

Brian McCulloch

A Friend in Paris

Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob

The Messenger

Carlo Dalessandro

A Servant's Eye

Carlo Farrelly

The Nature of Roots

Caroline Clough

Gingerbread

Cherry Potts

Something to Live For

Chris Barnham

Waltzing Across Texas

Christina Sanders

Ethnicities

Christine Benedict

Second Chances

Christine Kavanagh

All I Know

Christine O'Donovan

Writer-in-Residence

Clar ni Chonghaile

Bondage

Colette Dartford

Don't be S.A.D.

Colin Corrigan

White Goods

Courttia Newland

Muumuu

Cynthia Lelos

Happy and Whole

Daniel Degnan

Shallow Grave

Danielle McLaughlin

Rape

David Butler

Unless He is Born Again

David Butler

Mr Darkworld

David Dempsey

Amateur Dentistry

David Gleeson

The Ambassador's PA

David Kotok

Mother's Buoy

David Malone

The Dove

Dawn David

The Whipping Club

Deborah Henry

The Scent of Burning Peat

Deborah Hordon

The Importance of a Good Whistle

Deborah Murrish

The Art of Whistling

Deborrah Murrish

In Gerald's Blue Room

Declan Gorman

The Sleepwalker

Deirdre Grimes

Heaven Ltd

Denise O'Keefe

Snow Day

Dennis Anderson

Calling Time

Diane Simmons

Theatre Night

Diego Francisco Rincon Santana

Father Bob

Donal Wood

A Busker's Fate

Doug Pender

Running Through the Moon

E M Cunningham

Renewal

Edel Corrigan

Snapshots

Eileen Keane

Parallel Lines

Elizabeth Byrne

Ten Twelve

Elizabeth Sarkany

Cowboys and Stinians

Ephrat Livni

The Breadman of Raspberry Park

Erica Herd

Benny Wins Powerball

Erin Gough

Daleks

Erinna Mettler

Elemental

Estelle Birdy

The Story of my Leg

Eva Talmadge

Ripped and Holy

Ewan Gault

The Best Gift

Felicity Evans

The Parable

Finbar O'Flaherty

Frankie and Johnny

Frances Browner

The Verge

Frances Knight

Swang Song

Frank Dineen

Safari Moon

Frank McKenna

Safari Moon

Frank McKenna

Weak

Gail Rennie

Another Day at the Office

Gail Rennie

So Much for Charity

Gareth Shannon

Nobody Could Touch Us

Garvan Grant

Attack of the Cuckoo Clocks

Gary Malone

Frank

Gemma Marren

Malingering Effects

Gerald Lynch

Tumbling After

Geri Schear

The Whole Family

Gregory Papadogiannis

A Class Reunion

Greyham Stewart

How to Catch a Frog

Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown

Postcards

Hayley Katzen

Mainly Sharps

Hazel Osmond

The Captain's Wife

Heather Moore

Aeorstar

Helen Hooper

The Egg

Henry Shawdon

Chop Chop

Hilary Fennell

Too Much Happy

Hilary Fennell

The Preservation Dociety

Holly Dawson

Mr Butterfill's Misdemeanours

Ian Madden

The World Comes to Me

Ian Madden

Passing Through

Ian Schimmel

Christmas Light

Ian Scull

Ghost Wedding

Jacob M Appel

Songbird

Jacqueline P Haskell

My Name is Daniel

Jade Weighell

The Congo

Jaki McCarrick

Peter Sutcliffe's Hair

James Hillhouse

The Man Who Would Sing

James Sievert

Dead Reckoning

Jane Mullen

Bum First

Jane Seaford

Love

Jane Wilson

Private Passions

Janet Swinney

Jackal's Mate

Janey Huber

How to Fall in One Easy Step

Janice Lierz

69 Minutes on a Rainy Night in Limerick

Jason O'Donnell

Last Summer on the Farm

Jennifer Bailey

The Jungle Will Swallow Anything

Jennifer Mills

The Thirteen Man

Jess Richards

Feathers

Jessica Scalise

The Downstairs Family

Jill Haberkern

Evo-stick and the Bigamist

Jo Cannon

Shutters

Jo Cannon

The Sinking Ship

Joan Brennan

Lady of Sorrow

Joan Corwin

Details

Joan Corwin

Stopping the Traffic

Joanna Campbell

We All Fall Down

Joanne Hus

The White Rat

Joe Mclaughlin

The Spy on the Stairs

John Leahy

The Cleansing

John McCabe

Supergrass

John Mulligan

Suzanne

John Mulligan

Random Acts of Stealing

Jon Boilard

Mush

Jonaathan Priest

Tiny Camels

Jonathan Gibbs

The Funeral

Jonathan Stark

Entwining

Josephine Clarke

Precious Little

Joyce Russell

Ice Cream

Karen Haggarty

Magic in a Bottle

Karen Hunt

The Bird Guide Father

Karren Visser

Windowpanes

Kate Brown

A Secret Life

Kate Daniell

The Bike

Kate Hainsworth

The Buriel

Kate Miller

Cut Up

Kathy George

Astronaut Sister

Katriana Johansson

The Barber's Place

Kevin Leahy

The Insurrection

Kitt Harris

3-G

Kristi Thompson

Somehow, the Angel's Chosen Love Song

Kunthavai Jayadevan

Seven Man Song

Kunthavai Jayadevan

Plain Jane

L. A. Justice

Puppets in a Puppet Show

Laura Kinnear

Darkroom

Laura Windley

Shovel Therapy

Laurie Alberts

Pity Me Not

Leah Swann

How’s Your Glass?

Leanne Radojkovich

The Missing

Lesley Holmes

Homecoming

Liam Murray

Whatever Will Do

Linda Heuring

Holy Days of Obligation

Lizzie Shorrocks

Clay

Louise Sheffield

Father Mac

Lucienne Joy

From Space

Lynne Voyce

Dead Chickens Don’t Lay Eggs

Maeve McGowan

Tank Fish

Mandy Kohler

In The Tub

Manini Nayer

Chain Pier

Margaret Boyko

The Hungry Queen

Margaret Shafer

My Mother and Her Holy Men

Marian Fielding

A Caribbean Sailor

Mariko Iwasaki

The Homogonous Oneness of Everybody Else

Mark Collyer

Dead End

Mark Kreiger

The Hidden Moon

Mark McGlynn

Arrivals and Departures

Martin Childs

Clean

Mary Colvin

Life Goes On

Mary Howell

Between the Dark and the Daylight

Mary Mello

Keeping Fuchsia

Mary Moorkens

Makes Fire

Mase Tjhaba

Monastery Mystery

Maura Winters

The Wedding

Maurice Lewis

Horse Graveyards

Megan Williams

Grandmother

Melinda Davis

Saving Grace

Melissa Vallino

Choking

Michael Carson

Sometimes they don’t come back

Michael Forester

Iridescent Memories

Miranda Romano

Cláir Ní Aonghusa

Mrs Wilson’s Front Room

Brother Son

Nancy Dafoe

Interview with a Guilt Manager

Nancy Le Nezet

Somethin’ Aint Right

Narelle Hill

I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face

Natalie Adler

Withdrawl

Neil Cocker

Clean Round the Bend

Nina Milton

Collecting for the Lifeboats

Nora Morrison

George Everett

O C Ramsey

Nada

Olivia Rana

Procession

Paddy O’Reilly

Classical Drama

Paddy O’Reilly

Breakfast

Paige Michal

Three Minutes

Pascale Free

Foundlings

Paul Currion

Real Estate

Paul Duffy

Everything You Put in Your Mouth

Paul Michel

The Bag of Feathers

Pauline Mason

Grace Kelly

Penny Astor

The Moment of Touching

Penny Gibson

Death of a Mortal Woman

Persephone Vandegrift

A Tribute to Aine

Peter Beard

Meeting death in Copenhagen Airport

Peter Donnelly

Chasing Murakami

Philip Moyes

Life Drawing

Pippa Griffen

Taking Care of Business

Rachel Amphlet

Shifts

Rachel Crowther

The Boy Child

Rebecca Howard

Mrs Prendergast & Fifi

Richard Duncliffe

Books

Richard Holmes

Peace

Richard Holmes

Spores

Richard Howard

Blood

Robin Kearney

The Jailhouse Gourmet

Roger Jones

Time of the Wolf

Ron McLachlan

Nothing Changes

Rosey Darbishire

The Last Place

Ruth Davis

The Color of the Nile

Ruth Lilian

Fifteen

Sallie Bingham

Almost Shouting

Samuel Rutter

How to Love Your Cat & Subsequently the World

Sandi Sonnenfield

Hunger

Sandra Adelmund

Home Truths

Sarah Gilmartin

New Year’s Eve

Sarah Hegarty

The Waiting Room

Sarah Jane Checkland

Some Game

Sarah Leipciger

The Elk God

Sarah Miller

Nasty Weather

Sarah Weir

Killing the Laffeys

Seamus Scanlon

Mr November

Shane Culloty

Hello Lucifer

Shannon Corder

Peas in a Pod

Sheila Tortolano

God and the Runt

Sian Hughes

One is a Very Lonely Number

Siok Hoon Lim

Mary

Stefan Rimkus

Of Punks and Men

Stephen Wade

Management Thinking

Steve Smithson

Investment

Stuart Tallack

Becoming an Angel

Susan Scripture

A Long Way Down

Susan Stairs

Across the Rio Negro

Suzanna Cosgrave

The Psychometrist

Suzanne Willis

Big Night

T. Stores

Room 330

Tara Fennell

After the Cat

Teresa Stenson

The Girl Who Could Make Beds

Terry Lynch

Third Party

Thea Redmond

Footsteps

Thomas Kitrell

Hinterland

Thorunn Bjornsdottir Cacon

Moorings

Toby McGrath

Las Alasitas

Tom Scruton

Wasps

Tom Watts

Poltergeists, Rabbits and Craters

Tracey Jane

Graham’s Gift

Umi Sinha

Fish Eyes

Valerie McHugh

Embracing the Rain

Veronica Harvey

Change Comes – Sarah’s Story

Vicki Rogers

Touched

Virginia Woods

Captive

Warren Glover

Sailing Home

Wayne Faust

Wednesday’s Galoshes

Wednesday’s Galoshes

The Joy Chair Shockers

Wes Lee

Stockholm

Will Arnold

The Girl Who Was Afraid of Everything

William Davis

The Scottish Bastard

William Locke Hauser

A Departure

Xavier McCaffrey

The Taste of Red

Yael Nussbaum

Stories from the Longlist selected for the Shortlist

Title

Author

Fleur Smithwick

Play On

Vivienne Kearns

Hidden

Joanna Campbell

Bonanza Tully's Baby

Alison Key

Return Ticket

Rebecca John

A Question of Relevance

Frances Moldaschl

Mary Ward and the Schofield

Ian Madden

An Ancient World Excuse-Me

Michael Takemoto

The Siffler

Amy O'Neil

Skin

Jane Camens

A Matter of Luck

Eve Vamvas

The Birthday Book

David Gibson

Aliens

Paul Bassett Davies

If

Paul Brownsey

The Pleasures of the Other

Jessica Tuckwell

The Wall

Gabriel Valjan

Back in the Day

John Gray

The Enmity of Friendship

Leone Ross

The Woman Who Lived In A Restaurant

Richard Knight

Much Appreciated

Kristin Veel

Strawberry Jam

Hannah Hutchins

The Forest

Diana Louise Kwok

A Curious Creature

Karen Hunt

The Day I Lost My Skin

Catherine Chanter

You Come Here

Tom Tolnay

Ophelia of My Dreams

Ingrid Baier

The Best Laid Plans

Tanya Farrelly

Ophelia in the Park

Duncan Ross

Mud Brothers

Alison Napier

The Wreckers

Viv McDade

A Gift For My Mother

Adrianne Harun

The New Arrival

Amanda Fergusson

Kayla’s Story

Adrianne Harun

Swallow

Olivia Rana

Cholesterol Crushers

Anita Schmaltz

The Human Condition

Anthony White

Blown Away

Wes Lee

Fake Midnight

Michael Simpson

A Right Lovely Day

Virginia Woods

Touched (Version 2)

A Harsing

Difficult Times

Kristen-Paige Madonia

Polaroid

Alan Murphy

A Baggy Noose

Alison Irvine

Nightcalls

Amy Shuckburgh

Lumber

Amy Shuckburgh

Pudding and Pie

Laura Windley

Waltzer

Carys Davies

The Quiet

Jonathan Pinnock

rZr vs Napoleon

Sal Page

Hob Holes

Jarred McGinnis

Moi et Toi

Bruce Stirling

Best Ending Ever

Sarah Leipciger

In Kampuchea

Sharon Boyle

Reekie House

Kiki Denis

Me & the Insurrection Plan

Moira Macdonald

By Night's Candle

Fadhila Mazanderani

Snake Season

Michelle Lawford

A Boy And his trumpet

Deirdre Ni Dhubhlaoch

The Glass Room

Jacqueline P Haskell

Night Calls

Caroline Clough

They're Coming

John Pringle

Telly's Radio

Austin Duffy

Cheese

Joanne Riccioni

Can't Take the Country Out of the Boy

Amy Dowling

Street of Sighs

Susan Everett

The Boy From Far Away

Julian Tepper

Fridge

Aongus Murtagh

Last Journey to the Big Smoke

Kenneth Knight

The SUV

Alison Wells

All that thinking

Cameron Raynes

The Smell of Touch

Frosa Rhodes

Taffs Death and Mothers Atonement

Michele Powles

Caged

Alison Grove

Help Wanted

Gill Belchetz

No Time for Picasso

Alys Cambray

A Sea Change

James Pounds

Reggie, Late of the Royal Marines

Lyudmila Bryzzheva

On Rusted Wings and Wooden Dresses

Ann Jolly

A Malachite Sunbird

Adheesh Budree

African Son

Annie Thomson

The Tree House

Margot Demopoulos

Mourning

Aongus Murtagh

Things Fall Apart

Eleanor Hooker

Digging Holes

Chris Nicholson

Run, London, Run

Melanie Bishop

Trina Comes Home

Fiona Lynch

The Repair

Fiona Lynch

A Family Dance

Maya van den Heuvel - Arad

Sneaking In, Somehow

John Coffey

Where is George Webb?

Stephen McBride

Farewell My Little Red Friend

Kirsty Applebaum

Magnascope 1986

Andrew McMahon

The control of Aphids

Andrew McMahon

When Life Goes On

Andrew McMahon

When Winter Comes Early

Rachel White

Gatsby's Shirts

Sally Cranswick

Island Life

Nancy Fermanagh

And They Shall Inherit The Earth

Siobhán Harte

Steel on steel

Jean Rogers

The lavender beds

Toby McGrath

Disparate Dan

Leah Williams

After Sabra and Shatila

Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob

Mother

Bryan Dye

Spangles and Marvel Comics

Peggy Newman

A Polyester Coffin

Robert Domanski

The Conversion of George

Mike Fairbrass

A Bag For Life

J Mikosza

Flight

Simonne Michelle-Wells

The Tree

Robert Jackson

Wesley's Destination

Gabriela Blandy

Playing with guns

Michelle Inniss

The Ashes Disappeared

Roshi Fernando

Mrs Chatterjee's Indian Summer

Amanda Barnes

When the wind blows

Heather Challis

Home Isn't Where It Used To Be

Lucille Grant

The Scarf

Mira Dusho

Gallery of the Transcendental: A Visual Exposé

Mary Ann Hushlak

Living the Adventure

Stef Pixner

The Sort of Luck That Happens to Curtis

Stevan Rimkus

The Red Geranium

Valerie Waterhouse

The Shell Cabinet

Marliss Weber

The Rusalka's Song

Derick B. Donahoe

A Long Way From Somewhere

Russel Herneman

Vote Ebay

Stef Pixner

The Window Kisser

Barbara Wren

Word Made Flesh

EDEL QUINN

A Solitary Strip Of Light

Barbara Wren

Dusk

Anne Holbrook

"Another Chance"

Becky Cherriman

Close Pursuit

Gregory Papadogiannis

The City Beyond The River

Siobhan O'Connell

The Other Shoe

Matthew Mercier

Homemade Chapel

Janet Goldsworthy

The Birthday

Joyce Russell

Precious Little

Jacob M Appel

Ghost Wedding

Bernadette M. Smyth

Sightseeing in Louth

Wendy Dranfield

Blue