The residency is based near Glengariff, West Cork, in its beautiful forest park. The two other winners and I will also receive a package of mentoring from writers including Louis de Bernières, Robert Olen Butler and Leone Ross.
Huge thanks to Paul McVeigh and Anna Burtt, and to the judges, Cathy Galvin and Hilary White. And congratulations to my fellow winners, Greg Thorpe and Stephanie Torrance!
I am thrilled to have been awarded an Ignite Fellowship by the Scottish Book Trust.
The Fellowship supports writers as they embark upon or develop a significant creative project.
After a long hibernation, I am starting work on a novel again – and it means so much to have this support at this time. Thank you, Scottish Book Trust.
Katie Goh and Seonaidh Charity are this year’s two other fellows.
My thanks to Jane Fraser, guest editor of The Lonely Crowd, for selecting my story in the first place. And my thanks to John Lavin for inviting me to read, which I always so enjoy.
You can read my thoughts on writing the story here.
I am delighted that my short story ‘Wolf in the Ultraviolet’ now features in Issue 13 of the mighty Cardiff-based literary magazine The Lonely Crowd. It’s a bumper issue featuring work by poets and short-story writers such as Robert Minhinnick, Eleanor Hooker and Jo Mazelis, and a fantastic interview with Cynan Jones.
My thanks to Jane Fraser, a wonderful short story writer and novelist, who selected the stories for this issue.
As they say in Italian, I’m touching the sky/heaven with one finger. The news is out today… I am one of the five regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021. I’m thrilled and honoured and still a little stunned to have my story, ‘Turnstones’, represent Canada and Europe.
The prize attracted 6423 entries this year, so it means a lot that the judges have chosen my story. I’m still walking on air after reading judge Keith Jarrett’s generous comments.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize stories has long been a highlight of the short-story year for me. Every year they pick short story gems such as Ingrid Persaud’s ‘The Sweet Sop’; every year, they send an anthology of wonderful, international short stories out into the world.
The prize was launched in 2012 and seeks out writers and stories from across the five continents. This award celebrates the short story and supports writers often from countries ‘with little or no publishing infrastructure and from places that are marked by geographical, geopolitical or economic isolation’.
The regional winners’ stories will be published in Granta, in the weeks leading up to the final announcement of the overall winner in June. I’ve dreamed of appearing in Granta’s pages since I was knee-high as a writer, so I am thrilled.
You can read more about the five regional winner and our stories here. You can also listen to all the twenty five shortlisted writers, including me, talk about our stories here.
I’m so happy to find a home again in New Writing Scotland. My short story, ‘Likewise’, has been published in The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38. The contents page is a roll call of brilliant writers: Dean Atta, Olga Wojtas and Krishan Coupland, and dear Glasgow MLitt classmates Kathrine Sowerby, Sarah Ward and Alan Gillespie. And isn’t that front cover a stunner?
My story ‘Likewise’ is set in Emergency or neutral 1940s Ireland, a time not much explored in fiction, but a time that draws me, as questions of identity and conscience and nationalism prove so urgent once again–or reveal they never went away. And I love writing from places, like Dublin, that hear the sea…
I’m thrilled to be on the shortlist for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. My short story, ‘Clipped’, was one of twenty chosen out of 2,705 entries — callooh and callay!
The Bristol is a prize I’ve long followed and admired. Previous winners and shortlisted writers make quite a roll call: Danielle McLaughlin, Benjamin Myers, Deepa Anappara, Dima Alzayat, Cherise Saywell and Chloe Wilson, to name a few.
Each year, The Bristol Prize also publishes an anthology of the winning and shortlisted stories; and each year, these are treats. One of my favourite publications of the year. So, I’m delighted that my story will appear in the pages of the 2020 anthology.
The anthology will launch at on online event on October 10th, when the winner and runners-up will also be announced. So although there’s sadly no award ceremony this year in Bristol, lots more folk can now take part in the online celebrations.
You can read more about the shortlisted writers here, and pre-order the anthology here.
I’m delighted that one of my short stories has been longlisted for this year’s Bath Short Story Award 2020. Lovely to sit beside so many wonderful, intriguing titles…
Carol Farrelly 