Welcome to Fish Publishing, home of the best international awards for short story writers, and publisher of over 250 emerging writers since 1994 in the annual Fish Anthology.
Honorary patrons: Roddy Doyle, Frank McCourt and Dermot Healy
Enter Our Contests On-Line
FISH
SHORT STORY PRIZE
NOW CLOSED (14 Dec 2008)
Judge: Colum McCann
FISH
ONE-PAGE STORY PRIZE (Flash Fiction)
Stories of 300 words or less.
Opens 17 Dec 2008, Closes 20 March 2009.
Judge: Arthur
Mathews
FISH POETRY PRIZE
Opens 10 Jan, Closes 30 March 2009
Judge: Peter Fallon
Harlem River Blues features the winners from the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize, 2008 One-Page Prize, and more.
The winner of this year's First Prize, with the title story Harlem River
Blues is Julia van Middlesworth from New Jersey, who claimed her prize
at the West Cork Literary
Festival in Bantry, West Cork, Ireland.
You can buy the Fish Anthology through your local book store or on-line
at Fish On-Line, Amazon.co.uk
or Kenny's
Irish Bookshop.
"The Fish Short
Story Prize is an open door that's
inviting writers to walk through
it. It has to be encouraged, celebrated,
congratulated."
- Roddy Doyle
Fish Publishing is an independent publishing company based in the West of Ireland. It has been running writing contests since 1994. It publishes writers in anthologies of high production and literary standards. The annual Fish international short story prize has become an established event on the literary calendar. It is the aim of Fish Publishing to encourage and promote new writers. We are pleased to record that many authors published in the Fish anthology have consequently acheived futher publication and deals with agents and publishers. See Alumni Page.
Visit the Short Stories to Read Online page to read some of our published entries.
Fish Publishing offers a comprehensive Critique and Editorial Consultancy Service. Our editors are experienced in providing writers with constructive critical analysis and developmental assistance. They have been working with Fish for many years, providing support to writers at all stages of their work. They can assist writers to realise their potential with one-to-one editing. The Critique Service offers appraisals on short stories, while the Editorial Consultancy Service provides authors with ongoing support withhall writing project from novels to short stories to poerty.
Fish Publishing runs several literary competitions every year. On our
Writing Contests page there is an outline of our current and recent
writing competitions. To find the details of each one, or to keep up
to date with the judging of those which have recently closed, click
on the appropriate link and go to that competition's page. You will
then find full details of the entry requirements and other relevant
information.
The growing international participation in Fish competitions led to
the introduction of a system for entering stories online through the
Fish website. Click on Online
Entry to visit Fish-On-Line.
Fish has always ensured that acclaimed writers act as judges in all of its contests. Comments from some of these writers can be read on our Writing Short Stories page.
The Fish Anthologies
Novels & Other Titles
Short Stories to read online
Read online some of the winning entries from previous Fish Anthologies. These are examples of the calibre that win the Fish Short Story Prize. Short Stories to read online
Writing Short Stories
Our new Writing feature provides some suggestions on the art of story writing. The page is designed to provide writers with on-going, constructive information about how other authors achieved success with writing short fiction. For more information visit our Writing Short Stories page.
Online Book Shop
You can buy Fish Publishing's Anthologies of short stories on-line in our online book shop – The Fish Shop.
Online Entry
Our Fish-On-Line online entry system provides a convenient way to enter our contests on the web. Register as an online Fish author and you can enter current and forthcoming Writing Contests. Writers may also enter any of our competitions by post. See our Writing Contests page for full details
Writing Contests - Assistance
Fish Publishing offers an Editorial Consultancy and Critique Service. designed to provide writers thinking of entering writing competitions with constructive feedback on their work, whether it is a complete novel or just the beginnings. The Service is available to writers prior to entering the Fish writing competitions.