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

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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Flash Fiction Prize 2023: RESULTS

10th April 2023

Winners Short-list Long-list From all of us at Fish, thank you for entering your flashes. So many gems deserving of a readership have left their imprint on the Fish editors and judge, Kit de Waal. It was an honour to read them all. Congratulations to the writers whose Flash Stories were short or long-listed, […]

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Short Memoir Prize: Results 2023

31st March 2023

Winners Short-list Long-list On behalf of all of us at Fish, we congratulate the 10 winners who made it to the Fish Anthology 2023, and to those writers who made the long and short-lists, well done too. Thank you to Sean Lusk, for the time and enthusiasm that he put into selecting the winners. (About […]

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Short Story Prize 2022 Results

16th March 2023

Winners Short-list Long-list On behalf of all of us at Fish, congratulations to the 10 winners, and to those who made the short and long lists. I was delighted to find so many skilled pieces in the entries this year, stories that were gem-like, compressed and glinting . . . Sarah Hall […]

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