Writing Courses

Short Story Writing Course

10 modules designed to hone your writing skills within this exciting genre. This is an online course to be completed within 5 months. When you have enrolled on the course . . .

Memoir Writing Course

This tailored one-to-one course will guide and develop an ability to write from personal experience with literary purpose.
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Flash Fiction Writing Course

A series of lively and stimulating lessons online. All aspects of writing flash fiction will be explored, from sourcing material to shaping and producing a publishable work.

Poetry Writing Course

Each word has a little music of its own, which poetry rearranges so it can be heard. Delve deep into these arrangements, exploring poetic tools – symbolism, repetition, figurative speech, persona . . .

Playwriting Course

Complete a full-length play in your own unique voice. The work you create during the assignments will form the skeleton of your play, providing a solid foundation for you to develop it further at your own pace.

News & Articles

Short Story Prize 2023/24: RESULTS

10th April 2024

Winners Short-list Long-list On behalf of all of us at Fish, congratulations to all of you who made the long and the short-lists. Apologies for the delay in this announcement. The 10 winners will be published in the Fish Anthology 2024. The launch will be during the West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland – […]

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Flash Fiction Prize 2024: RESULTS

10th April 2024

Winners Short-list Long-list From all of us at Fish, thank you for entering your flashes. Congratulations to the writers who were short or long-listed, and in particular to the 11 winners whose flash stories will be published in the Fish Anthology 2024. The launch will be during the West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland […]

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Short Memoir Prize 2024: RESULTS

1st April 2024

Winners Short-list Long-list On behalf of all of us at Fish, we congratulate the 10 winners who’s memoir made it into the Fish Anthology 2024 (due to be launched in July ’24 at the West Cork Literary Festival), and to those writers who made the long and short-lists, well done too. Thank you to Sean […]

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Launch of the Fish Anthology 2023

12th July 2023

Tuesday 11th July saw the launch of the 2023 Anthology in the Maritime Hotel, Bantry. Nineteen of the fourty authors published in the anthology were there to read from their piece, travelling from Australia, USA and from all corners of Europe. Read about the Anthology More photos of the […]

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Poetry Prize 2023: RESULTS

15th May 2023

Winners Short-list Long-list Winners: Here are the 10 winners, as chosen by judge Billy Collins, to be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2023. The Anthology will be launched as part of the West Cork Literary Festival, (The Maritime Hotel, Bantry, West Cork – Tuesday 11th July – 18.00.) All are welcome! Second […]

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