€3,000 award

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The Francis MacManus* Awards* 2004


The annual competition for original short stories for radio commemorates the distinguished broadcaster and novelist Francis Mac Manus (1909 - 1965) who was a major influence in encouraging Irish writers and developing radio as amedium for the expression of ideas and the promotion of new writing.


Over the past eighteen years The Francis Mac Manus Competition has resultedin the broadcast of over 500 short stories by new and emerging writers andhas set many of the* broadcast authors on the path to publication and success.


The 2004 Competition offers prizes of €3,000 and a commemorative trophy for the winner with €2,000 and €1,000 for the second and third prizewinning stories. The three prizewinners, plus a selection from the shortlisted stories, will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 early in 2005.


The closing date for entries is Friday 1st October 2004.


A copy of the rules and regulations can be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to:



RTÉ Radio 1
Francis* Mac Manus Short Story Competition,
RTÉ Radio Centre,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4


or by visiting our website at:* www.rte.ie/radio1/francismacmanus

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Another couple of awards:

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2005



The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to announce it will be offering a prize of 50,000 Euros for the best original collection of Short Stories published in English, anywhere in the world, for the first time between January 2004 and September 2005. Translations will qualify. If a translation wins, the prize will be split evenly between the translator and author. The prize will not be given posthumously. The prize will be called the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and is so named to honour one of the most distinguished of English-language Short Story writers. The sponsor of the prize is Cork 2005. The award is part of the official programme for Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture. The award will be made at the closing ceremony of the annual Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival in September 2005. The aforesaid festival is the world’s only annual Short Story festival in an Anglophone country; established in the year 2000.

Subsidy publications and self-publications will be considered but publications coming from known vanity presses will be dumped straight in the recycling bin unread. Interested publishers must submit to the Munster Literature Centre seven copies of a nominated book by January 31st 2005. Books scheduled for publication up to September 2005 will be accepted in bound proof form. A shortlist of six titles will be announced in July 2005. The shortlisted authors will be expected to attend the awards ceremony when the winner will be announced for the first time.

The raisons d’etre of the award are:

1) to contribute to a parity of esteem between the Short Story form and her sister form the Novel.

2) to reward the commitment of authors of accomplishment to the Short Story form.

3) to encourage publishers to publish more individual collections of Short Stories and to consider work from authors who choose to work exclusively with the form as well as from those who also write novels.



The international judging panel is composed of Short Story practitioners. Val McDermid is the chair, other judges are Mary Leland, James Lasdun, Hansjörg Schertenleib and Desmond Hogan. Munster Literature Centre Director and Award administrator Patrick Cotter will be a non-voting contributor to the judging panel.







Fish Short Story Prize

Entering the Competition


This years judges are:

Roddy Doyle - Victoria Glendinning - Hugo Hamilton

The Rules
The competition is open to writers from all countries, but stories must be written in English.

No entry form is needed.

There is no restriction on theme or style, but entries must be no more than 5,000 words.

Stories will not be returned unless they are being critiqued.

Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by E- mail.

The judges' verdict is final. No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted, Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered, but may be resubmitted if the reduced additional entry fee is paid again.

The winning stories must be available for the anthology, and therefore must not have been published previously. In the interests of promoting new writers, we regret that previous 1st prize winners, or any writer with two stories already published in Fish anthologies, are prohibited from entering.

Copyright remains with the author.

Closing date: 30th November. (Annually)

Entry will be deemed as acceptance of these conditions.

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On-Line Entries
Welcome to Fish-On-Line, the new system for submitting stories to the Fish Short Story Prize or Fish Publishing's Critique Service.

We are delighted to be able to offer this facility. It will enable you to manage your entries and allow us to keep pace with the growing number of stories being sent to Fish.

On-line entries will only be accepted if entered through our website.

STORIES SUBMITTED SHOULD BE IN RICH TEXT FORMAT.

Stories sent by e mail in the ordinary way will not be accepted.

To enter the Fish Short Story Prize on-line, Click here.
For those who wish to make a postal submission and pay by cheque as before, please read on:

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Postal Entries
Stories entered by post must be submitted with a 12pt (minimum) font 1.5 spacing (min). printed on one side of the paper only.

Name and address should not appear on text, but accompany it on a separate sheet. Include phone number and e mail where possible.and give full details of name, address and telephone number.

Any entry must contain a cheque in your local currency to cover the cost of all your entries and any other requirements.

Postal submission costs ars as follows.

1st Story E15.00 £11.00 US$15.00 Additional Stories E10.00 £8.00 US$10.00 Critique Service (Per story) E45.00 £30.00 US$45.00

Postal entries should be sent to:

Fish Short Story Prize, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland.

(There is no postal or ZIP code).

Closing date for receipt of entries: 30th November.

If receipt of entry, personal notification of results or reponse to any other inquiries are required other than by E-mail then it is necessary to send a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope using Irish and British stamps or International Reply Coupons (IRC). Stamps from other countries can not be used.

Stories will not be returned unless they are being critiqued.



Further details from www.fishpublishing.com