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 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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Fish Anthology 2022: launch photos

21st July 2022

MORE ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY The Maritime Hotel, (Bantry, West Cork, Ireland) hosted The Anthology launch on 11th July, during the West Cork Literary Festival. 15 of the 39 writers published in the Anthology made it to the launch to read an extract from their short story or memoir, or their entire flash story or poem. […]

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Fish Anthology 2022 – LAUNCH

1st July 2022

Maritime Hotel, Bantry, West Cork, Ireland 11th July at 6pm All welcome! This event is part of the week long West Cork Literary Festival which runs from Friday 8th until Saturday 16th July. There is a packed schedule of talks, readings, interviews and workshops. Many of the authors published in the 2022 Anthology will be […]

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Poetry Prize ’22, Results

14th May 2022

Winners Short-list Long-list Winners Here are the 10 winners, as chosen by judge Billy Collins, to be published in the Fish Anthology 2022 The Anthology will be launched as part of the West Cork Literary Festival, (The Maritime Hotel, Bantry, West Cork – Monday 11th July – 18.00.) All welcome! The 10 […]

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