SHORTLIST Fish Short Story Prize 2014/15

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103 stories shortlisted
(1,575 stories submitted in total)

Story Title	Author
The Overman	Alan Timmons
Our Eliza	Andrew Murphy
And Then We Ran	Andy Wilson
She	Angelita Bradney
Tom	Ann Butler Rowlands
These Silver Fish	Anne O’Brien
Small Stones	Beth Cardier
Pyramid	Bill Davis
Blind White Worm	Bill Davis
JFK’S LAST INTERVIEW	Bob Reynolds
This Is Not Me	Bridgett Kendall
Rainbow’s End	Carol Jones
The Inner Exiles	Caroline Lea
Penguin	Carolyn Power
Tribe	Caron Tate
The Book of Bruises	Catherine McNamara
Snowstorm	Catrin Kean
Ice Man	Charles Evans
Break Character	Chloe Wilson
The Pace of Change	Chris Weldon
The Shawl	clare jarrett
Kicking the Habit	clare O’reilly
The Walker	David Martin
A Little Trouble with the Spirits	Deborah Cameron
Over-the-Rhine	Dedria Barker
Collect Your Cards	Eamon Murphy
Under the Tree	Eileen Herbert-Goodall
Frozen Tears	emma purcell
Eleanor	Eva Lomski
Roundabout	Federica Lugaresi
In My Shoes	Fiona Drury
Her Own Kind	Fiona Whyte
after all . . .	Frank Cossa
Jerry	Franny French
Siren	Georgina Eddison
A DEAD LIKENESS	Gerald Benedict
Down to the black Sullán	gerard galvin
The Developing World	Gerry McKeague
American Holiday	grace french
Marching Season	Grahame Williams
Wrung	Hannah-Fleur Fitz-Gibbon
The Last Fix	Helen McGoldrick
Telling the Bess	Helen Morris
Hereafter	Hilary Fennell
Revenge	howard russell
The Empty Jacket	J Mulligan
After The Angelus	Jack McAuliffe
Thieving in a Minor Key	Jacob Appel
Dust & Bones	James O’Sullivan
Breathless	Jane Roberts
HOME	Jean Rogers
Pumpkin Head	Joshua Sabatini
White Cube	Joy Manne
Death of a Stoveman	Judith Brown
The Kid	Julie Kearney
THE MIRROR	KALLIOPI PASXALIDOU
Two Funerals	Kara Moskowitz
PLATEAU	Katayoun Medhat
The Journey	Kate Mahony
Combat	Katherine West
Hourglass	Kathryn Phelan
Healing Waters	Keeley Mansfield
Tomorrow	keren heenan
Lessons in a foreign language	Lezanne Clannachan
Clean	Lisa Harding
November Dead List	Louise Kennedy
The Light in the Attic	Luke Temple
The Long Room	Manus Boyle Tobin
Two Sheets to the Wind	marie kennedy
The Firemen	Marina Marinopoulos
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog	Marius O’Shea
The Accumulation Of Small Wounds	Mark Smith
Norah	Mary Moylan
An Exam for Mister Mortenson	Mary Winsor
At the Edges	Maureen Connolly
Dear Mumsey	nick wright
Criminal	Ofir Oz
Of things that fall from the sky	Omar Al-Khayatt
The Sinking	Patrick Dixon
Eureka	Paul Michel
Unfinished Business	Pauline Brown
Deliverance	Petra McNulty
Desray	Pippa Gough
Dog	Pippa Gough
The Engagement – Belfast 1975	Raymond Watson
Between My Ribs	Riba Taylor
When I Was a Dog	Riba Taylor
Some Strange Moon	Riona Judge McCormack
Girlfriend	Rosemary Jones
Looking Back	Rosie Dastgir
The Griffin	Ruby Soames
Oviparous	Sam Sudar
Dominoes	sinead roarty
The Descendent of Byron’s Parrot	Stephanie Norgate
Dancing With The Mountains	Susan Schadler
The Painter’s Child	Suzanne Frankham
The Danger	Suzy Knights
Ya Mama	Taabta Sharran
A Reunion at The Hotel Meurice	Terence Cady
Cold Storage	Terence Cady
The Parlour	Teresa B. Reilly
L Is For Laura	Tom Billings
Twisted	Tracy Fells

LONGLIST Fish Short Story Prize 2014/15

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356 stories longlisted
(1,575 stories submitted in total)

Story Title	Author
Miller	Aidan OKeeffe
I Want You	Aisling Campbell
The Overman	Alan Timmons
A SLICE OF PARADISE	Alex Reece Abbott
Falling Up	Alice Jolly
The Faithful	Alice Jolly
July for the Canada Geese	Alison Earls
Creels	Alison Lock
(Un)familiar	Allie Rogers
Somebody Else’s Child	Amy Jomantas
Collection Day	Andrew Fox
69	Andrew Judd
Starlight	Andrew Judd
Our Eliza	Andrew Murphy
And Then We Ran	Andy Wilson
Book, kitchen, shelf	Angelita Bradney
She	Angelita Bradney
Tom	Ann Butler Rowlands
The Grave Digger	Ann Cahill
Ill Omen in Kabylia	Ann Dufaux
The Gift	Ann Mooney
Reconstruction	Anna Freyberg
Through a Cracked Lens	Annabel Abbs
The man with no hands	Anne Aylor
Misunderstanding	Anne Cleasby
Love and Living Dangerously	Anne Cleasby
These Silver Fish	Anne O’Brien
Fragile	Annette Dunne
The Note	Ariel Gil
Hatch 9 New Applicants and enquiries	audrey corr
A Betting Man	Barbara Fried
Burial	Barbara Tarrant
Shelley’s Boys	Benjamin DaSilva
Small Stones	Beth Cardier
Twenty Pence	Beth Tyrrell
A Voice	Bill Davis
Pyramid	Bill Davis
Blind White Worm	Bill Davis
JFK’S LAST INTERVIEW	Bob Reynolds
The Irish Twins	Bonnie McCune
Love in an Abattoir	Brendan Gill
This Is Not Me	Bridgett Kendall
Heliophobia	Carol Farrelly
Rainbow’s End	Carol Jones
The Inner Exiles	Caroline Lea
Penguin	Carolyn Power
Tribe	Caron Tate
She Says Yes	Carrie Alexander
Everything is Lighter	Catherine Bateson
Strange Currents	Catherine Donnelly
Sheep	Catherine Kirwan
The Book of Bruises	Catherine McNamara
Shrinking From Life	catherine talbot
Poor Carol and Other Amusing Stories	Cathy Layne
Snowstorm	Catrin Kean
Ice Man	Charles Evans
Love in the Time of Electronics	Charlie Neuner
Of Small Consequence	Charlotte Seden
Break Character	Chloe Wilson
Bookworm	Chris Dooley
The Pace of Change	Chris Weldon
The Poor Dead	Christina Dowling
Bubbles	Claire Constant
Heatwave	Claire Hennessy
I NEVER TOLD	Claire McNamara
The Shawl	clare jarrett
Castaway	Clare Le May
Song for Solomon	Clare O’Dea
Hey Presto	clare O’reilly
Kicking the Habit	clare O’reilly
Secrets	Clarrie Pringle
KEEP THE FAITH	Colin Burns
The Pictures	Connie Gaind
Rogey	Daniel Murphy
The Small Print	Daniel Schweimler
Alone	Darren Ryding
Here there are no stars	David Bausor
The Free Brontosaurus	David Berkeley
Where the pine trees fall	David Higgins
WHEREVER, WHATEVER	David Jay
The Walker	David Martin
Dorothy	David Mathews
Kodak Memories	David ODwyer
10,000 Miles from Home	David Slater
Laying my Ghosts	David Slater
A Little Trouble with the Spirits	Deborah Cameron
JELLYFISH DREAMING	Deborah McCutchen
Somebody’s Girl	Debra Curtis
Over-the-Rhine	Dedria Barker
Goblin Market	Donna Triggs
Collect Your Cards	Eamon Murphy
Under the Tree	Eileen Herbert-Goodall
Under the Tree	Eileen Herbert-Goodall
Gateway to the Starry Sky	Eleanor O’Reilly
His Own Man	Elizabeth Jane Corbett
The Lost and Found	Emma Balmforth
Frozen Tears	emma purcell
Eleanor	Eva Lomski
Jonnie Through the Glass	Faith Mimnall
Roundabout	Federica Lugaresi
In My Shoes	Fiona Drury
The Seaview	Fiona Skepper
Postcards From Berlin	Fiona Whyte
Her Own Kind	Fiona Whyte
Emma	Franco Alonso
after all . . .	Frank Cossa
Chronicle of a Death Forestalled	Frank Rizzuto
Jerry	Franny French
Mixed Reviews	Fuchsia Fishbourne
In the Land of the Dinosaur	Garret Dwyer-Joyce
Sin	Georgina Eddison
Yana	Georgina Eddison
Some Days Even the Goldfish . . .	Georgina Eddison
Quite	Georgina Eddison
Siren	Georgina Eddison
A DEAD LIKENESS	Gerald Benedict
Jaundice	gerard galvin
Down to the black Sullán	gerard galvin
Ducks and Geese	Gerry Dorrian
Tigers	Gerry McCullough
The Developing World	Gerry McKeague
Crossing The Line	Gillian Holland
Grand Finale	Glynis Gertsch
The Anniversary	gordon parker
American Holiday	grace french
Marching Season	Grahame Williams
Lowmans Road	Gráinne O Toole
Into the Light	Gregory Hanafin
Wrung	Hannah-Fleur Fitz-Gibbon
All the rules we could ask for	Heather Richardson
Pennyboy	Heather Richardson
A Slut and a Liar	Helen Dann
The Treat	Helen Hogan
I Had a Little Nut Tree	Helen Hogan
The Last Fix	Helen McGoldrick
Telling the Bess	Helen Morris
Not LIke Us	Hilary Fennell
Hereafter	Hilary Fennell
Red Kites Over The M40	Hilary O’Sullivan
The Materialist	Horatio Potter
The Spirits of Whiskey Row	howard russell
Revenge	howard russell
To Spain And Back	Iona Coulter
Dig deep, and throw well back	J Mulligan
After The Angelus	Jack McAuliffe
Thieving in a Minor Key	Jacob Appel
Washing with the May Dew	Jacqueline Nolan
The Irresistible Decline of hope in the Kingdom of Shadows	James Gargan
Dust & Bones	James O’Sullivan
Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche	james woolf
R v Sieger – additional documents disclosed by the Crown Prosecution Service	james woolf
SAFE ARRIVAL	James Yeo
M’boosa and the Spirit of Fire	James Yeo
The Gower Explorer	Jane Fraser
Breathless	Jane Roberts
The Look Out	Janet Swinney
The Queen of Campbeltown	Janet Swinney
The Menace at the Gate	Janet Swinney
HOME	Jean Rogers
Way station	Jennifer Salkin
The Well at the End of the World	Jill Gientzotis
BROTHERS	Jin Baker
Buttons	Jo Barril
Rehearsal	Joan Christie
The Visit.	Joan Morrissey
Smoothin’	Joanna Campbell
Enzo Ponza	joanna walsh
Judo For Jesus	Joe Golombek, Jr.
9678	Joe Golombek, Jr.
The Crossing	John Inglis
Bury My Heart	John McHugh
The Left Side	John O’Donnell
Financial Engineering or Whatever Shall We Do With Grandma?	Jonathan Pinnock
Pumpkin Head	Joshua Sabatini
The Artists	Josie Turner
White Cube	Joy Manne
Death of a Stoveman	Judith Brown
Reader I Married Him	Julie Kearney
Dangerous Beauty	Julie Kearney
The Kid	Julie Kearney
Louise and Louisa	k Lockwood Jefford
THE MIRROR	KALLIOPI PASXALIDOU
Two Funerals	Kara Moskowitz
Unravelling	Karen Hollands
Hidden Depths	Karen Laffan
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME	Karen Wolff
The Invisible Woman	Karen Woods
PLATEAU	Katayoun Medhat
The Journey	Kate Mahony
Combat	Katherine West
The Man in the Suitcase	Kathleen Hansen
Stone Sett	Kathryn Burke
Residue	Kathryn Burke
Hourglass	Kathryn Phelan
Alma	Kathy D’Arcy
Healing Waters	Keeley Mansfield
Tomorrow	keren heenan
Pigeon Blood	Kerry Barner
Water Music	Kim Murdock
SG642975	Kirsten Pell
Aurora	Lela Tredwell
Lessons in a foreign language	Lezanne Clannachan
Clean	Lisa Harding
The Red and the Dark	Lorna Cooper
Skeleton Leaf	Louisa Lester
November Dead List	Louise Kennedy
The Crossing	Louise King
The Orange Step	Louise Swingler
Hell Is Other Gods	Lucie-Gabrielle Jolicoeur
The Light in the Attic	Luke Temple
Other Side of the River	Lyn Broadhurst
Alien Big Cats	M J Jackson

Abel’s Mountain	Madeline Moran
Six Cans	Maggie Hill
Don’t Bury Me In Doonaree	Maggie Murphy
The Thaw	Maire Mulhern
High Noon	Malachi O’Doherty
Mr. & Mrs. Mort	Manus Boyle Tobin
Blossom	Manus Boyle Tobin
The Long Room	Manus Boyle Tobin
Lucky Strike	Margaret Ries
As Simple As That	Mariam Haji
Two Sheets to the Wind	marie kennedy
The Firemen	Marina Marinopoulos
Merry Christmas, Charlie	Marion Loughe
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog	Marius O’Shea
Things Fall Apart	Mark Arnold
COMPREHENSIVE COMPREHENSION	mark cole
The Caretaker	Mark Klassen
Universe, Sea	Mark Liddington
White Wings	Mark Patton
The Accumulation Of Small Wounds	Mark Smith
Steps	Martin Hulton
Something Beginning	Martin Hulton
Full Tilt	Martin Keating
Blackie	Martin Keating
Campaign for Light	Mary Bilan
The Herbalist of Baghdad	Mary Fox
Going Home	Mary McKeone
Twice Singular	Mary Moorkens
Norah	Mary Moylan
An Exam for Mister Mortenson	Mary Winsor
At the Edges	Maureen Connolly
Grift Bred in the Bone	Maureen Millea Smith
Neuroplasticity	Melanie Cheng
Silent as Storks	melanie whipman
Portrait Show	Michael Barrett
An audience of cranes	Michael Bird
The Warlord of Aisle Nine	Michael Logan
Dover, Japan	Michael Milton
Polack is Warming Now	Michael Morrissey
Weights	Michelle Scorziello
The Widening Gyre	Miranda Bowen
Life Happens!	Muraledharan Pillai
Bench	Nawapak Lerthirunvibul
Flame	Niamh MacCabe
A Jog	Niamh MacCabe
Memory Foam	Niamh MacCabe
Polyxena and Achilles	Nicholas Angel
Dear Mumsey	nick wright
Marks	Nicolas Bellorini
Peephole	Oana Aristide
Criminal	Ofir Oz
Watermelon	Omar Al-Khayatt
The Downfall of Keith Alpen	Omar Al-Khayatt
Knuckleheads	Pamela O’Brien
The Barn	Pat boran
Battery Hens	Pat Davis
Baxter	patria hatami
Blind Encounter	Patrick Courtney
The Sinking	Patrick Dixon
Murmurations	Paul McMichael
Big Night	Paul Michel
The Piebald Buck	Paul Michel
Eureka	Paul Michel
Rajasthan	Paul Saville
Unfinished Business	Pauline Brown
Shh	pauline clooney
Nothing to Tell	pauline rooney
Tablecloth	Pauline ryan
Now…	Peter Jones
Deliverance	Petra McNulty
Traitor	Philip O Neill
Desray	Pippa Gough
Dog	Pippa Gough
Little Bears	Ray Prowse
The Duel Carraigeway	Raymie Watson
The Engagement – Belfast 1975	Raymond Watson
Between My Ribs	Riba Taylor
When I Was a Dog	Riba Taylor
Ma’s Pavotitti	Richard Lysaght
Stafford Street	Riona Judge McCormack
Some Strange Moon	Riona Judge McCormack
The Gift	Robert Lumsden
Santa Claus	Robert Mundy
The Mute	Roisin Donovan
Wicklow Cowboy	Rory McArdle
Mrs Frank and the Red Chair	rosemary gerring
Girlfriend	Rosemary Jones
Looking Back	Rosie Dastgir
Live Meat and Freedom	Rowena Macdonald
The Griffin	Ruby Soames
Glossolalia	Ruth Frendo
And Each One of Her Bones Shall be Broken	ruth gilligan
King Mikey	Ruth Thorlby
Oviparous	Sam Sudar
Steve Wright in the Afternoon	Sandra Ireland
A Thousand Grains of Sand	Sarah Hegarty
The Green Gumar	Sarah Kilfeather
STARS ON THE CEILING	Seamas Keenan
THE FLYING FIFTY-TWO	Seamas Keenan
Driving Lessons	Shannon Azzato Stephens
The Pigs and Patrick	Simon Broad
The Goldfish and the Button	simon poore
Dominoes	sinead roarty
things You Discover in the Smallest Room	Siobhan Harte
Drift	Siobhan Harte
The Descendent of Byron’s Parrot	Stephanie Norgate
Partitions	Stephanie Scott
Waiting for Gadjo	Stéphanie Sébileau
Cathedral Streets	Stephen Flanagan
The Two Trials of Aller	Steve Wade
Trouble in the Forest	Steve Wade
The bus	susan lloyd
Dancing With The Mountains	Susan Schadler
The Painter’s Child	Suzanne Frankham
The Danger	Suzy Knights
Ya Mama	Taabta Sharran
Sartre’s Lobster	Tamara Jones
Sweating Checkov	Tanvir Bush
ة (ta marbuta)	Tendayi Bloom
A Reunion at The Hotel Meurice	Terence Cady
Cold Storage	Terence Cady
The Parlour	Teresa B. Reilly
Marks On My SKin	Teresa OBrien
Compulsion	Tessa Robinson
Blood Orange	Theodore Johnston
Portrait of an American Girl	Thomas Carney
A MAN ABOUT A DOG	Thomas Turner
Hokkaido no Yuki	Thomas Watson
The Jimmy Walk	Tim Booth
My Kentucky Mountain	Timm Holt
Absolutely	Timothy Moloney
The Party	Toby Corballis
The Cost Of Not Living	Toby Roebuck
L Is For Laura	Tom Billings
Meeting Constance	Tom McElligott
What Does the Eagle Think?	Tony Lindsell
Twisted	Tracy Fells
The Watcher	Valerie Ryan
Hunted by Dreamlight	Virginia McRae
MAKING A BREAK FOR IT	Viv McDade
Mrs Hennie Vervoerd	Wendy Archer
Little White Lie	Winifred Scheffler
No More	wolfgang eulitz
Voices From Upstairs	wolfgang eulitz

WINNERS Fish Poetry Prize 2014

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FIRST
Chris Stuart Andrews	Pacific Rim
SECOND
Jacqueline P Haskell	Alice Like The Wind
THIRD
Helena Goddard	Parliamo Daisy
HIGHLY COMMENDED (in no particular order)
Laila Farnes	Rainstick
Kita Shantitis	That Which is Wanting
Molly Vogel	The Child Dreaming in a Poet’s House
Penny Ouvry	Diagnosis
Philip Miller	Alone With His Longing, He Lies Down on the Bed
Breda Wall Ryan	If What Is, Is Other
Jacqueline P Haskell	Amelie

SHORTLIST Poetry Prize 2014

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96 poems shortlisted
(1,300 poems submitted in total)

Two Hearts	Akiho Schilz
Phoenix	Alan Lawson
From beyond the waiting room door	Andy Jenkins
Murmuration Over Gretna	Ann Thompson
Living with Adult Children in Times of Recession	Bernadette Crawford
Cilleen	Bernadette Crawford
If what is, is Other	BREDA WALL RYAN
The Color of Guinness	C. Wade Bentley
My Mother	Catherine Bateson
AFTER THE MOVIE AT THE REX	Charles Tisdale
THE IMPETUS OF WATER UNDER OTHER WATER	Charles Tisdale
Pacific Rim	Chris Andrews
She did not	Connie Golden
Seeing	Connie Roberts
Love.	Denise Pattison
VALUE OF EMPTY SPACE	DORIS FERLEGER
Lament	Eamonn Lynskey
Slave Sense	Elaine Feeney
The Self-test Law	Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
Fall Weather Talk	Evangelino Balanon
I was reading Rumi	Felicity Notley
Epidauri	George Harding
Feathers	George Harding
Travellers Rest	Gerry O’Donnell
Please Forward	Giles Newington
In Truth	Gráinne O Toole
Ashes	Gráinne O Toole
The Decorum of the Social Wasp	Grainne Tobin
Catherine of Aragon	Gregory Jackson
Since Adam	Gretchen Friel
Parliamo Daisy	Helena Goddard
Winter Term	Helena Nolan
Popular Mechanics	Helena Nolan
Mother’s Day	Helena Nolan
Out walking with Seamus Heaney	Hugh Breslin
red flag	Irene Mosvold
Amelie	Jacqueline P Haskell
Alice like the wind	Jacqueline P Haskell
I can’t help it really	James Heaney
I watch him, my husband	Jay Kidd
Lost Duet	Jean Tuomey
Neptune’s Bells	jenny pollak
My dear departed	jenny pollak
The Sacred Book or Recycled Library	Joan Phillip-Allan
Glory	Joan Renino
Tidbits	Joe Ruane
The Minds Eye	John D Kelly
Citoyens du Monde	John Wheway
Lines from an Ape	Jonathan Pinnock
Lorcan’s Reverie	Joyce Sheehey
Poinsettia	Julie Sheridan
My Father	Karen O’Connor
Private Wasteland	Kate Dickson
Poolbeg	Kathryn Phelan
Plunder	Katie Dickson
Riddling Insistence in an Original Voice	Kevin Griffin
That Which Is Wanting	Kita Kita Shantiris
Consonants	Kita Kita Shantiris
Rainstick	Laila Farnes
Solitude for Molly	Liam Maloney
Mt. Fuji	Linda Nemec Foster
Lobster	Lucy Maxwell Scott
Early traces of artistic endeavour	Lucy Maxwell Scott
Double Tap A Lifetime	Majella Kelly
To the Naked Eye	Marie Cadden
Bowl	Marjorie Kennedy
Come the Resolution	Mark Fiddes
The Wigs	Mary O’Donnell
Forest, Snow, A Train	Mary O’Donnell
Names	Michael Swan
For Cordelia, from Falcon Court	Michele Pizarro Harman
The Child Dreaming in a Poet’s House	Molly Vogel
Holy Terror	Mona Lydon-Rochelle
Achilles	Natalie Holborow
Itch	Nicki Heinen
Bloody Sunday	Nora McGillen
Coming of Age	Patrick Diarmuid Donnelly
A Village in Kosovo	Paul Dolan
Training	Penny Ouvry
Diagnosis	Penny Ouvry
Letter to Pope	Philip Brady
‘Alone with his longing he lies down in his bed’	Philip Miller
Actaeon and Artemis	Ray McNiece
Three Hundred Words	Richard Scarsbrook
scenes form a gay life	rob wallis
Business Trip	Ruth Coffey
Tongue/Fire/Eclipse/Groove	Sarah Stern
Alone in a Crowd	Seth Insua
Mandala	Seth Insua
Matilda	Seth Insua
The Mermen	Seth Insua
TRIP THE LIGHT	Susan Muehlberg
Winter Blue	Wende McCabe
Sweet Dreams	Wiebo Grobler
The Angels’ Share	Zoe Green
GORGON	Zoila Bergeron

LONGLIST Poetry Prize 2014

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347 poems longlisted
(1,300 poems submitted in total)

Father away on business	Adnan Mahmutovic
Kairos	Akiho Schilz
Two Hearts	Akiho Schilz
the metamorphoses	akil contractor
Mammock beach	Alain Speed
The bus conductor	Alain Speed
A month in the attic	Alain Speed
Street Bird	Alain Speed
Phoenix	Alan Lawson
Secret Life of the Charity Shop	Alison Thomas
Gravity Is Always Attractive	Amy Greacen
Lviv, February 2014	Andrew Dawson
Acceleration due to gravity	Andy Jenkins
From beyond the waiting room door	Andy Jenkins
Queen Victoria’s Wedding Dress	angela Readman
Of Tea Tasters and Book Keepers	Anirudh Jain
Murmuration Over Gretna	Ann Thompson
Not Waiting But Drowning	Anna Whyatt
Summer Shower in Suburbia	Anne Coughlan
Snipe	Anne O’Malley
Dream with Two Muses	anne swannell
Red Towel	Arne Weingart
Taking on the Shape	Astrid van der pol
A Life	attracta kennelly
“2 double-O over 7” prestigitation	Barrie Walsh
I am Not	bern butler
The Yard Brush	Bernadette Crawford
Living with Adult Children in Times of Recession	Bernadette Crawford
Cilleen	Bernadette Crawford
The San Fermin Sonnets	Bert Beckmann
Sudden Mushrooms	Bill Hoagland
Now Point	Bill Hogan
Asyourhazeleyesrotate …!	Bill Hogan
Engaged to Stillness	Bogusia Wardein
Persons Unknown	Bogusia Wardein
Self-Portrait as a She-Wolf	BREDA WALL RYAN
No that the White Bear is Gone	BREDA WALL RYAN
Becoming the Ancestor	BREDA WALL RYAN
If what is, is Other	BREDA WALL RYAN
Rwanda	brenda fitzpatrick
A Fallen Oak	Brian Murphy
A July Evening in Bantry	brigid johnson
The Color of Guinness	C. Wade Bentley
Autumn leaves tour	Carly Roberts
Moon Man	Carmen Feliciano
N.	carolyn waudby
Aerialiste	carolyn waudby
My Mother	Catherine Bateson
Rococo and Cocoa	Catherine Wylie
The last of the tribe	Catherine Wylie
See what we can see	Cathy Dreyer
Tomorrow	Charles Evans
AFTER THE MOVIE AT THE REX	Charles Tisdale
AFTER THE MOVIE AT THE REX	Charles Tisdale
THE IMPETUS OF WATER UNDER OTHER WATER	Charles Tisdale
remembering	cheryl fraser
Pacific Rim	Chris Andrews
The Ever Changing Definition of Youth in Revolt	Christopher Meehan
Thirst	clare O’reilly
Edgar’s Fridge	Claudine Toutoungi
Knowing We’ll Be Mostly Wrong	colin channer
The Basement	Connie Golden
She did not	Connie Golden
Seeing	Connie Roberts
Fill The Empty Space	Corey Ramsey
Lines	Csilla Toldy
Massage	Cynthia Grover
The Missionaries of All Hallows College	Dan Reid
Good Friday	Daniel Gustafsson
Nativity	Daniel Gustafsson
The Two Hand Tale	Daniel P. Stokes
The White Camellia	Davnet Heery
Seed	Davnet Heery
Hunger Winter	Dawn Smith
Birthday	Denise Nagle
Love.	Denise Pattison
There Was A Man	Devo Cutler-Rubenstein
A Brief History Of Ink	Devreaux Baker
Resurrection	Diana Howard
Nihilism Means Nothing to Me	Dicko King
VALUE OF EMPTY SPACE	DORIS FERLEGER
Lament	Eamonn Lynskey
fish publishing poems	Eileen Murphy
Slave Sense	Elaine Feeney
Irrepressibly Bare	Eleanor Hooker
The Self-test Law	Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
“Blue Frog”	Elizabeth Wolf
Brandon Bay	Emer Fallon
Playing Attention	Emma Clohessy
For Bill	Eric Pitty
Fall Weather Talk	Evangelino Balanon
I was reading Rumi	Felicity Notley
An Indifferent Wind	Fran Graham
Like the Animals	G.G. Silverman
Epidauri	George Harding
Feathers	George Harding
snow rules	Geraldine Clarkson
St Rose of Lima’s Revenge	Geraldine Clarkson
Travellers Rest	Gerry O’Donnell
Burrow Beach, Dublin	Giles Newington
Please Forward	Giles Newington
World Without End	Grainne Murphy
In Truth	Gráinne O Toole
Ashes	Gráinne O Toole
The Decorum of the Social Wasp	Grainne Tobin
Grouse	Gregory Jackson
Catherine of Aragon	Gregory Jackson
Since Adam	Gretchen Friel
An Assortment of Poetry	Helen Picard
Parliamo Daisy	Helena Goddard
Winter Term	Helena Nolan
Popular Mechanics	Helena Nolan
Mother’s Day	Helena Nolan
Repellent	Holly Minogue
Dad’s Cap	Honor Somerset
Out walking with Seamus Heaney	Hugh Breslin
red flag	Irene Mosvold
in loco parentis	J. C. Robertson
Harvest	Jacqueline P Haskell
the greening	Jacqueline P Haskell
The Warrior of the Falling Fire	Jacqueline P Haskell
Fledgling	Jacqueline P Haskell
Amelie	Jacqueline P Haskell
Alice like the wind	Jacqueline P Haskell
I can’t help it really	James Heaney
The Depression	James Patterson
[elegy]	James Patterson
L’Abbaye du Lieu Dieu	James Patterson
Writing Poetry at 5 A.M.	James Patterson
Geyser	Janis Freegard
Sing me to Sleep	Jasmine Holmes
The Roach Men	Jasmine Holmes
I watch him, my husband	Jay Kidd
Winter Hides the Gardener	Jean Tuomey
Lost Duet	Jean Tuomey
One Small Scratch	Jed Myers
Wish You Were Here	Jed Myers
Lock Up Your Pelargoniums	Jennifer Compton
“A Dictionary of Venery in the Voice of Artemis”	Jennifer Militello
Timing	Jennifer Quinlivan
Eleanor Rigby’s Dream	Jenny McRobert
By the sea communing with my dead great grandfather	jenny pollak
Neptune’s Bells	jenny pollak
My dear departed	jenny pollak
Mitochondrial	Jessica Traynor
Elizabeth and the Globe	Jessica Traynor
The Sacred Book or Recycled Library	Joan Phillip-Allan
Adagio	Joan Renino
Glory	Joan Renino
Tidbits	Joe Ruane
The Minds Eye	John D Kelly
Rien de Rien	John D Kelly
Philoctete’s Wound	John D Kelly
Not Alone on a Goat’s Path	John D Kelly
The Collectors	John FitzGerald
Cross-Country	John FitzGerald
Luminosity	John Murphy
Ebb Tide	John Robinson
Bombers’ Drive to Dublin May 1974	John Walsh
The Interlopers	John Wheway
A Fairy Tale	John Wheway
Citoyens du Monde	John Wheway
On Going to Watch a YouTube Video of Charles Bukowski and Being Forced to Sit Through an Advert for Fucking Saga Holidays	Jonathan Pinnock
Lines from an Ape	Jonathan Pinnock
Lorcan’s Reverie	Joyce Sheehey
Drinking with my Dead Brother	Judith Barrington
After Dusk	Judith Barrington
UP AT NIGHT	Judith Krause
1001 Voices	Judith Sloan
on a still day	Judith Taylor
Too old friends at the shore	Julian Green
Poinsettia	Julie Sheridan
Each Time	Karen O’Connor
Blind Casting	Karen O’Connor
My Father	Karen O’Connor
A Walk in The Woods	kate Ennals
Forty Shades of Fog	Kathleen McCoy
The Chosen One	Kathleen McCoy
Second day of spring	Kathryn Lomer
You, Once	Kathryn Phelan
Poolbeg	Kathryn Phelan
Losing It	Kathy Chan
Privaate Wasteland	Katie Dickson
Plunder	Katie Dickson
Riddling Insistence in an Original Voice	Kevin Griffin
Death in the Afternoon	Kevin Smith
The mystic crucifixion by Tintoretto	Kim Garcia

Franco’s Lost Children	Kimberly Burwick
That Which Is Wanting	Kita Kita Shantiris
Consonants	Kita Kita Shantiris
Beyond Fort Worth	Kita Shantiris
Trevelyan’s Rhinoceros	Kristina Blaine
It is as if the answer lies in the Ashes	Laila Farnes
Rainstick	Laila Farnes
The Cake Mixture	Leah Larwood
Heart Foundation	Liam Maloney
Tea, hands	Liam Maloney
Solitude for Molly	Liam Maloney
Mt. Fuji	Linda Nemec Foster
Screen Shot	Linda Norton
Reading to My Stepson	Linwood Rumney
The Sign Said “Apples”	Lisa Boone-Berry
Ireland and the economy of neighbours	lisa Johnson
Concert Pianist on Desert Island Discs	Lorna Liffen
True Angels	Louise McKenna
Something else	Lucy Maxwell Scott
Lobster	Lucy Maxwell Scott
Early traces of artistic endeavour	Lucy Maxwell Scott
LAST MINUTE	Madelaine Nerson Mac Namara
Fisherman’s Wharf	Maeve Kelly
A Romance	Maggie Jackson
CHI	Mago Wells
Leannán Sí	Majella Kelly
Badger in a Bag	Majella Kelly
Double Tap A Lifetime	Majella Kelly
Rowan Woman	Mandy Haggith
thistles	Maresa Sheehan
To the Naked Eye	Marie Cadden
Human Zoo, Female Wing, AD 3010	Marilyn Annucci
Childhood	Marjorie Kennedy
Bowl	Marjorie Kennedy
Transcendence Comes in Gigahertz	Mark Fiddes
Come the Resolution	Mark Fiddes
Blood Ties	Mary Ann Hushlak
BEE	Mary O’Brien
Markings, 2060	Mary O’Donnell
The Wigs	Mary O’Donnell
Forest, Snow, A Train	Mary O’Donnell
Under Blue Blankets	Matt Miller
Dreaming Mum	Maureen Cullen
Aspirations	Maureen Harkin
Misadventure	Michael Dooley
Anagnorisis	Michael Dooley
THE PALESTINE CIRCUS SCHOOL	Michael Poage
The Monster’s Photograph Album	Michael Swan
Names	Michael Swan
For Echo, from Lander Ave.	Michele Pizarro Harman
For Mopsus, from Hull Ave.	Michele Pizarro Harman
For Cordelia, from Falcon Court	Michele Pizarro Harman
What the Archaeologists Found	Mil Norman-Risch
Gentle Visit	Mo Rahimi
The Child Dreaming in a Poet’s House	Molly Vogel
Come Home	Mona Lydon-Rochelle
Holy Terror	Mona Lydon-Rochelle
Epistle	Natalee Dawson
Achilles	Natalie Holborow
Sleeping Arrangements	Natalya Anderson
Instead I’ll Peel Clementines	Natalya Anderson
Bath Bubble	Natalya Anderson
Portrait of a Lady	Natasha Deonarain
Seven Days in St Lucia	Nicholas Bowlby
Drowning	Nicholas Bowlby
Shipwrecked	Nicki Heinen
Melancholia	Nicki Heinen
Itch	Nicki Heinen
Casting for Sea Trout	Noel King
Hedge Setter	Noel King
Takis	Noel Manning
Bloody Sunday	Nora McGillen
pride comes before	Norm Neill
homelessness	Norm Neill
The Daisy Girls	O’ Connell Claire
Full Moon at Monemvasia	Olive Broderick
In Mary’s Garden on a Summer’s Evening	Olivia Kenny McCarthy
THE VIRGIN MARY TELLS HER SIDE OF THINGS	Patricia Mansfield Phelan
ANNIVERSARY	Patricia Mansfield Phelan
The Darkest Day	Patrick Diarmuid Donnelly
Coming of Age	Patrick Diarmuid Donnelly
Terrible Hair	Patrick Sexton
A Village in Kosovo	Paul Dolan
LAST TO LEAVE	Paul Nash
A DARKER BLUE	Paul Nash
KILKENNY LONDONER	Paul Nash
SLOW-WORM BASKING	Paul Nash
Paula	Paula Brancato
Sand Castles in Gaza	Pearse Murray
The Latin Tutorial	Pearse Murray
Training	Penny Ouvry
Diagnosis	Penny Ouvry
Five Owls	penny turner
Wasp and Peach	Peter Flynn
Emery House	Peter Kent
Waterstones	Peter Kent
The Universe Within	peter lindley
A Second Cappucino	peter lindley
‘Translations through Grief’	Peter Mitchell
What is this thing called string?	Peter Tonkin
Letter to Pope	Philip Brady
‘Alone with his longing he lies down in his bed’	Philip Miller
Debris	Rachael Smart
Into the You Beaut Country	Ray Liversidge
Actaeon and Artemis	Ray McNiece
Dear Saraswati	Rebecca Gimblett
Three Hundred Words	Richard Scarsbrook
Angels of Ashes	Rob Davies
scenes form a gay life	rob wallis
No hint of brogue	Roger Vickery
Borderlands	Roisin Kelly
Business Trip	Ruth Coffey
Tessa at eighteen months	S A Jones
six o’clock news	samuel Burnside
You Can Never Go Home	Sanda Ionescu
Four Swans	sandra ireland
It is still January.	Sandra McTurk
Prisoners of War: Dachau’s Song	Sarah Conolly
Song of Gratitude	Sarah Rice
Dogs of Ecuador	Sarah Sleeper
Tongue/Fire/Eclipse/Groove	Sarah Stern
Thank you very much	Seth Insua
A Young Cartographer	Seth Insua
The Sense of Lying	Seth Insua
Conversations in Spain	Seth Insua
Alone in a Crowd	Seth Insua
Mandala	Seth Insua
Matilda	Seth Insua
The Mermen	Seth Insua
A tear drop	Seth Koen
Assignation	Sharon Black
Backwash	Sharon Foley
Ten	Sharon Foley
Cumberland Farm	Sharon Foley
War	Sighle Meehan
Venus	Simon Eastman
A Request for Color and Spice #3	Simon Peter Eggertsen
Boy With a Live Bearded Vulture, Kabul, 1973	Simone Littledale
Abu Dhabi Mums	Sinead Ni hArgain
I return	Sofia Buchuck
The Leopard	Stephanie Scott
TRIP THE LIGHT	Susan Muehlberg
Fall Equinox On Double Bluff Beach	Suzannah Dalzell
The Path to Rodel	Tarn Painter-MacArthur
Emptied of All but Wildness	Tess Barry
The Galvanised Bucket	Tim Carroll
The Railway	Tom Moore
Red Bricked Fox	Veronica Szczygiel
Grumpy Moon	wayne cresser
Winter Blue	Wende McCabe
Sweet Dreams	Wiebo Grobler
The Water Pipes	Will Martin-Smith
Of endless triumph	Will Moorfoot
A Family More I Miss: The Boy	William Fell-Holden
The Bhikkhu and the Body	William Johnson
Space Invader	Wilma Scharrer
The Masterpiece	Yvonne Jackson
INVITING ENLIGHTENING LOBOTOMY Freak Show	Zach Knox
The Angels’ Share	Zoe Green
GORGON	Zoila Bergeron

WINNERS Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2014

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First Prize:
Sally Ashton	A Theory of Relativity
Second:
Robert Grossmith	First
Third:
Christina Eagles	Thirteen
Honorary Mentions:
Jude Higgins	The Lottery
Grant Gerald Miller	Mr Words
John D Kelly	Untethered
Katharine Brown	Icarus
Gerry Dorrian	Re: holes
Roisín O’Donnell	Him
Emma Bladen	The Pick-me-up

SHORTLIST Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2014

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72 stories shortlisted
(1,250 stories submitted in total)

The Shape of a Heart	Aidan Miller
We	Ali Svenson
Birdman	Andrew Dawson
A Whiff of Lilac	Anita Lehmann
Talking About Horses	Anna Baness
Timbuktu	Beejay Silcox
The Catch	bernard lord
Remember, Remember…	Carol Caffrey
LOST CARGO	Cheryl O’Brien
Thirteen	Christina Eagles
Hagar Playing Goalie	Courtney Sender
At My Turned Back	Cynthia Hyde
re: Long Stay Guests	dave lordan
Resus	Deborah Rickard
Resus	Deborah Rickard
Hoisted By Your Own Petard	Ed Spencer
The Heart Thieves	Eleanor Talbot
Life Saving Skills	Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
Flying Fish	Elizabeth Peterson
The Pick-Me-Up	Emma Bladen
Dead	Esther Newton
Going back	Francis Hayes
Re: holes	Gerry Dorrian
Re: holes	Gerry Dorrian
Mr. Words	Grant Gerald Miller
Message in a Milk Bottle	Izabella Grace
Parched	Jeanette Sheppard
Betty	Jennifer Burke
Shadow	Joal Hetherington
Elinor, Who Does Not Kneel	Joanna Pocock
Untethered	John D Kelly
A Little Tin	John Stockdill
The Lottery	Jude Higgins
White Matter	Julianna Holland
Changeling	Kate Forlong
Icarus	Katharine Brown
In the Long Dry Grass	Kathy George
Moment	Kevin DeLuca
In a certain sense, the Good is comfortless	Kimmo Rosenthal
Hawk	Lani O’ Hanlon
Mass Grave, Ukraine	Laura Lauth
Na zdrowie (Bless You)	Liam Garnett
Just Like Mimi	Linda Foster
The Rope	Lisa Carey
The Analyst	Margaret Ries
Home Safe	mary healy
Flood	Maura O’Brien
Good neighbours	maureen flynn
Eleanor	Meri Spencer
The Knitters	Michelle GAllen
Winner alright	Mike Mahon
Something Less than Couth	Oscar Windsor-Smith
Rich Pickings	Pat O’Shea
Elevator #1	Paul Freedman
Bit By Bit	Pauline Brown
Me & Dixie	Peeta Marie Reynolds
Majesty	Petra Perkins
In Rain	Raymond Gohery
Cost For Death, Life	Raymond Webb
Satiation	rebecca rebecca
On School Days	Rhoda Greaves
Enough to Wake the Dead	Richard Bond
First	Robert Grossmith
Avon calling	Roger Vickery
HIM	Roisín O’Donnell
The Holland Metaphor	Rose West
Payback	Ruby Speechley
A Theory of Relativity	Sally Ashton
Levelling-Up	sean coffey
Overture to Expo	Stephen Smith
Care	Susan Howe
Wake Up	Wiebo Grobler

LONGLIST Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2014

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278 stories longlisted
(1,250 stories submitted in total)

Protégé	A.B. Speake
The First Thing I Do	A.B. Speake
Full Irish	Adrian Wistreich
Agnes Does Not Live Here Anymore	Aida Lennon
The Shape of a Heart	Aidan Miller
DIG	Alex Lockwood
HANGI DAY	Alex Reece Abbott
We	Ali Svenson
We Used To Play At Husband And Wife, Never Mum And Dad.	Alice Frecknall
Pocket Book	Alison Moore
Alone	Allison Getty
Wake Bleary	AM McCormack
Clowns	Amanda O’Callaghan
All the perfumes	Amanda O’Callaghan
Value	Amanda Oosthuizen
Freedom	Amber Fales
Without	Amy O’Neil
Crocodiles	Andre Mangeot
When the Wind Blows	Andrea Hughes
Birdman	Andrew Dawson
The Trouble With Men	Andy Shearer
EMIGRATION	Angela Rojter
A Whiff of Lilac	Anita Lehmann
Talking About Horses	Anna Baness
Hot Dog	anne shewring
Anomaly	Anne-Marie Hoeve
Empathy	Anne-Marie Hoeve
The ex-lover’s gifts	Anthea Lacchia
The Orange Scarf	Austin Veldman
Dios Dira	Axayacatl Velasco
Without Gingersnaps	Barbara Mertus
YOU SEE A SHOOTING STAR	Beatriz Gartler
White Wedding	Becky Lucas
Timbuktu	Beejay Silcox
The Catch	bernard lord
A Sultry Day	bernard lord
A BURNING DESIRE	bill Simpson
Wrong Entrance	Bren Gosling
They Know I Have To Work	brenda mezick
The Summer Holiday	Brian Bell
No Future	Brian Bell
Once a home	Brian O Beirne
Cookies	Brian Spellman
Time to Go	Bronwyn Cozens
THE FUNERAL DRESS	Carmen Estevez
Remember, Remember…	Carol Caffrey
Lipstick Lives in the Shop	Caroline Auckland
Alter ego	Caroline Brett
no fixed abode	caroline moir
The Marble	Catherine Watkins
Nanna’s Shadows	Catherine Wilson
The Big Rock	Catriona Shine
Orla didn’t have lights on her bike and it was getting dark	Ceridwen Buckmaster
LOST CARGO	Cheryl O’Brien
A Burnt out Case	Chris Lakeman Fraser
Thirteen	Christina Eagles
Stony Looks	Christine Todd
Aimless Love	Claire Sadlier
Plumbing	Colin Watts
a touch of mustard	Conor Keane
Hagar Playing Goalie	Courtney Sender
At My Turned Back	Cynthia Hyde
Fourfather (sic)	Daniel Perry
The Jug	Daphne Kalmar
A Clean Break	Daphne Kalmar
The Map	Darothy Durkac
re: Long Stay Guests	dave lordan
Old School Ties	David Smith
Marseille	David Steward
Driven	Debbie Willox
Resus	Deborah Rickard
Resus	Deborah Rickard
Blue-Sky Thinking	Deirdre Daly
Long Live the King	Derek Leif
Counting	Dervla Browne
Road Kill	Donna McLaughlin Schwender
Marbles	E.N. Loizis
Communion	Eamon Murphy
Hoisted By Your Own Petard	Ed Spencer
The Heart Thieves	Eleanor Talbot
THE MAN MET THE WOMAN	Elisabeth Avery
Life Saving Skills	Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
Flying Fish	Elizabeth Peterson
The Pick-Me-Up	Emma Bladen
The Phantom Pick-Me-Up	Emma Bladen
Echoes	Eran Wesselius
Promotion	Eric Knight
Soup	Eric Schellenberg
Dead	Esther Newton
The Apple Farmer and the Bride Price	Evelyn Adesida
Going back	Francis Hayes
Awkardness	Francis Mulhern
A Train	Gabriel Flynn
Death of a Hairless Man	gavin vance
The Fix Up	George Harrar
Re: holes	Gerry Dorrian
Re: holes	Gerry Dorrian
The Way He Made Tea	Ginny Horton
Mr. Words	Grant Gerald Miller
The Oarsman	Greg Spracklin
Rat on a Roll	Hannah van Didden
School Bus	Hanne Winkler
Wise to the Hard Facts	Hermina Burns
Baobab	Hilary McGrath
Introduction	Ian Harrison
Pickled	Idris Nook
Message in a Milk Bottle	Izabella Grace
Just one more thing from a long list of many	Jacqueline P Haskell
The Audience	Jacquelyn Schneller
Projections	Jane Peranteau
Master Genus	Jane Williams
A Better Husband	Jane Williams
Parched	Jeanette Sheppard
Betty	Jennifer Burke
Corpus	Jennifer McGrath Kent
Shadow	Joal Hetherington
Moon Garden	Joal Hetherington
Beyond	Joan Renino
French Vanilla	Joan Renino
August 1961, Berlin	Joanna Campbell
Elinor, Who Does Not Kneel	Joanna Pocock
The Same Backwards	Joe Evans
Untethered	John D Kelly
The Darkness	John Ingrisano
Tease	John Robinson
A Little Tin	John Stockdill
Fifty Three Seconds	Jonas Kubitscheck
About the Author	Joy Manne
The Lottery	Jude Higgins
Little machine guns, not yet silenced	Judy Birkbeck
Friends Forever	Judy Brownsword
Angel of Death	Judy Brownsword
White Matter	Julianna Holland
A marriage	Kamalakshi Mehta
Changeling	Kate Forlong
Icarus	Katharine Brown
In the Long Dry Grass	Kathy George
Setting	Keeley Mansfield
Moment	Kevin DeLuca
If The Spirit Moves You	Kevin Leahy
Catching the Sun	Kevin Scott
In a certain sense, the Good is comfortless	Kimmo Rosenthal
Hawk	Lani O’ Hanlon
Mass Grave, Ukraine	Laura Lauth
CONTACT	Laurie Murphy
Sand Snake	Laurie Theurer
He Looked Into Her Eyes	Len Lambrellis
Na zdrowie (Bless You)	Liam Garnett
Just Like Mimi	Linda Foster
Drunk Dad Fairy	Linda Moser
The Rope	Lisa Carey
French Toast	Luan Goldie
Pedestrian	Luke Temple
In The Drifts	Luke Temple
Stirring	Mackenzie Pitcairn
George	Madeleine D’Arcy
EAT	Maggie Veness
The Undertaker’s Eye	Mandy de Waal
Aide Memoire for A Long Distance Swimmer	Mandy de Waal
A Fist of Dreaming Stones	Mandy de Waal
Unfinished Business	marc littman
Poetry in Paris	Marcella O’Sullivan
Oryza sativa	Marcy Rae Henry
To tao	Marcy Rae Henry
The Analyst	Margaret Ries
Oh Brother	Marie McAleer
The Tourist	Mark Arnold
On the seventh day She created bananas	Mark Fiddes
High Tech Hemingway	Mark Scott
Home Safe	mary healy
Flight	Mary Jane Gomm
The Monster	Matilda Colarossi
If Found, Call Me Immediately	Matthew Villarreal
Flood	Maura O’Brien
Good neighbours	maureen flynn
The Visit	Maureen Harkin
Eleanor	Meri Spencer
These People	Michael Connon
The Heat and Quickness	Michael Culbertson
AAAA Moon vampire	Michael Morrissey
FOOD OF LOVE	Michelle Allford
The Knitters	Michelle GAllen
Breakdown	Michelle Wright
Troubled Waters	Migel Jayasinghe
To Sleep	Mike Greenhough
Winner alright	Mike Mahon
Mother Runs	Natalie Newman
100 lbs.	Natasha Mackey
The Frog Clan	Neil Tarpey
Mondays and Fridays	nickie lambrinakou
Size 10 (UK)	Nicola Silke
Alexander	Nicolas Niarchos
End of the Bar	Noel Wills
Jack	Orla Donoghue
Something Less than Couth	Oscar Windsor-Smith
Johnny Lost his Head…..Again.	Pablo Handriko
Jack and the Bankstalk	Pablo Handriko
Appointment	Pablo Handriko
Hereafter	Parrish Young
Rich Pickings	Pat O’Shea
Preparing The Vegetables	Pat O’Shea
The Lineup	Patricia Jackson
An Amoral Tale	patricia kane
Daddy	Patrick Byrne
Ocean View	Patrick Curran
Elevator #1	Paul Freedman
Elevator #3	Paul Freedman
Bit By Bit	Pauline Brown
The People’s Wok	Pauline Brown
Me & Dixie	Peeta Marie Reynolds
Tommy Needs a Woman	Peeta Marie Reynolds
Something Loud	Peter Ryan
Majesty	Petra Perkins
They Do This to Prove How Air Pressure Can Create Lift as Long as there is an Angle of Attack	Rachel Fenton
Cityscape	Rachel Peters
Drone	Ray Dolphin
In Rain	Raymond Gohery
An Island Harvest	Raymond Gohery
Cost For Death, Life	Raymond Webb
Satiation	rebecca rebecca
I Do/Two Syllables	rebecca rebecca
Counting Cassiopeia	rebecca rebecca
On School Days	Rhoda Greaves
Little Swan	Rhoda Greaves
Fall for Me	Rhoda Greaves
A Sad Circle of Gold	Rhonda Collis
Enough to Wake the Dead	Richard Bond
Counting	Richard Reitzfeld
The Duck Man	Richard Reitzfeld
A Dish Served Cold	Rina Piccolo
First	Robert Grossmith
Satsuma	Roger Kirkpatrick
Avon calling	Roger Vickery
Heart By-pass	roisin hogge
HIM	Roisín O’Donnell
The Science of Forgetting	Roisín O’Donnell
The Holland Metaphor	Rose West
Mary’s Cake	Roy Davimes
Payback	Ruby Speechley
A Theory of Relativity	Sally Ashton
Shauna’s List	Sandra Danby
Teenage Sniper	seamus scanlon
Levelling-Up	sean coffey
Compulsory Mourning – 1944	Sheila Llewellyn
When The Power Went	Simon Cornish
ONLINE DATING	Sohrab Fracis
I Say Things	Stefanie Pfammatter
Menu	Stephen Percival
Overture to Expo	Stephen Smith
To the Daughter of Saint Gawain	Steve Wiley
Night Dance of the Wild Kings	Steve Wiley
Delphine	Sue Crowder
BEGUILED	Susan A Eames
Care	Susan Howe
Two dogs	Susanne Stich
Bestiary	Susanne Stich
The Therapist’s Dilemma	Tamara Jones
Last Saturday’s Dream	Tamara Jones
Arrival	Thivakaran Narayanan
Bettie	Thivakaran Narayanan
WISTERIA THOUGHTS	trish leake
Veneers	Ursula Mallows
Three Flash fiction stories	Ute Carson
Excuse for a Criminal	Val Melhop
A Connection	Valerie Ryan
Monster	Vanessa Savage
MY SISTER	Veronica Bright
THE INTERIM FLOOR	Vitaly Olshevsky
Unfair Attention	wendy Price
Wake Up	Wiebo Grobler
Pie	Wiebo Grobler
Defence Case	William Davidson
The Quarry	William Davison
Passport Control	Yasmin Khan Murgai
Saving Habi	Yvonne Jackson
The Pass	Zoe Green

WINNERS Fish Short Memoir Prize 2014

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(Comments from judge, Dermot Healy)

1. In the Dark Garden by Kirstin Zhang . . . . the writer leaves the reader haunted

2. Plasticine Flowers by Mary Fitzpatrick . . . . Contains one of the best lies I’ve ever read

3. Chestnuts, 1955 by Bonnie K. Kidd . . . . A fearful family memory that still hurts

7 runners up

Pearl Paint by Linda Norton . . . . lovely honest little piece

The Past by Aubrey Malone . . . . Full of personal integrity

Alabama 1966 by D. B. Donahoe . . . . The story goes straight through the readers head

The Zen Of Kakapo Poo, redux by Deb McCutchen . . . . the first time I’ve encountered poo as the hero of a memoir

Reproduction by Nell McGrath . . . . Wonderful sad tales of Christmas

Of Exodus by Betty Weine . . . . Remarkable historic journey

Pass With Care by Tom Billings . . . . A grave memorial

SHORTLIST Fish Short Memoir Prize 2014

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98 memoirs shortlisted
(1,085 memoirs submitted in total)

Growing up on Mortal Kombat	Adam Zdroik
Perestroika	aivars tannis
Action: A Short Memoir of Lust	Andrew Foster
What You Cannot Give Them	Ann Thompson
The Past	Aubrey Malone
Acute	Becca De La Rosa
Of Exodus	Betty Weiner
Chestnuts, 1955	Bonnie K Kidd
Deadarm	Brad Geyer
Just a While Before Now	Candida Pugh
Memoirs of Austin	Carol Burrows
The Pagoda Tree	Cassandra Keen
Waiting	Christine Findlay
Alabama 1966	D B (Rick) Donahoe
Jig	Daniel Finnegan
Footprints	Daphne Kalmar
The Peculiarity of the Hat Stand	david frankel
The Sideboard	Deirdre Foley
Hannibal’s Orchard	Denise Mack
LOSING COLOR	DKM
The Zen of Kakapo Poo Redux	DKM
An Indian Woman’s Hair	Donna Ward
Slow Descent	Dylan Joseph Brennan
The Beginning	Eileen Casey
The Remorse of Heroes	Elisabeth Avery
God Turned Up Uninvited	Elizabeth Andrzejewski-Wilson
First Year of Single Parenthood	Elizabeth Haussler
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow	Elizabeth Valente
Something Is Lost and Can’t Be Found	Eufemia Fantetti
Alison	fiona mcneil
When Did You Last See Your Father?	fiona mcneil
The Barrel	Frances Quinn
The Chevra	Goldie Goldbloom
Last Stop, Coney Island	Helen Bar-Lev
The Fish and Chip Club	ian whitwham
Life in the Autistic Lane	Ingrid Baier
Romanian Funeral	J. Mulligan
short circuits	jack o’donnell
Rendezvous	Jacqueline Henry
Familiabetical	Janet Gibson
Into the Desert	Janet Wainscott
IN AND OUT OF FOCUS	Joan Kantor
Better to Call it Grief	JoeAnn Hart
Liminality: A Love Story	John McKenna
My Penis Rules	John R. Sabine
Jumping Jehosophats!	Julie Kearney
In The Dark Garden	K. Zhang
If only when	Kate Mayne
The only woman in the weightroom	Katherine Farmar
About Winning	Kathryn Phelan
Early Daze	Keith Westwater
Innocently Sinister	Kevin McMahon
Flirting with Death	Kimberly Condon
Pearl Paint	Linda Norton
Lou Ann and the Boot	Lisa Rizzo
At Boothville	Lisa Southgate
Solemn Fold	Maggie Dugan
Space and Place	Marcy Rae Henry
Providing	Margaret Grundstein
eBay Families	Martin Cromie
For the Nameless ones	martina crawford
Plasticine Flowers	mary fitzpatrick
Macrobiotics and Condor Plug	Mary Johnston
Night Terrors	Megan Williams
Brass City Swelter	Michael Dwyer
Going Going Gone	Michael Forester
In Sure Uncertain Hope	Michael Forester
Creepy Crawlies	michelle brock
Little Boy Blue	michelle brock
Before. After.	Michelle Brown
The Beating (A Kindergarten Memoir 1944)	Mike Absalom
K	Myra Connell
Reproduction	Nell McGrath
Tribute to My Father	Patricia Jackson
Lucifer in his Original Glory	Paul McGranaghan
Nineteen Eighty-Four	Paul McGranaghan
The Big Lad	pauline rooney
A Persian Serenade	Peggy Preciado
The Missing Postman	Peter Cunningham
Shining Stars	Phyllis Hollenbeck
The Funeral	Rachel Ferguson
On the Road to Jack’s House	Ray McNiece
In Your Shoes	rebecca rebecca
Man Overboard	Richard Bradburn
Fields and Stones	Ronald Hartley
Night Work	Royston Tester
Descent	Saffron Marchant
Manna From Heaven	Sally O Donlon
Hippocrates and the Friday Night Fights	sara davis
The Flies	Sean W. Murphy
43 Jenvey Road	Shaun Levin
The Chocolate Bar	Shirley Barasch
Life Lessons Learnt in Freefall	Simon Jackson
Pass With Care	Tom Billings
Tadhg	Tom Hunt
Man with No Legs	Valerie Lake
Christmas 1950	victoria riskin
A life in the day	William Weeks

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