Galway-based writer Mike McCormack is the judge for this year's Moth Short Story Prize. The
Prize is open to everyone, as long as the work is original and previously
unpublished. There is a 6,000 word limit. The entry fee is €9 per story
and you can enter as many stories as you like.
You
can enter online or simply send your story or stories along with a cheque
or postal order made payable to The Moth Magazine Ltd. and an entry form
(downloadable here) or a cover letter
with your name and contact details and the title of story attached to: The
Moth, 81 Church Street, Cavan, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
This
year’s competition will be judged by Mike McCormack, a recipient of the Rooney
Prize for Irish Literature whose debut short story collection was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year. His novel Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for
the Irish Book of the Year Award and was described in the Irish Times as ‘the
greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended’.
CLOSING DATE 30 JUNE 2014
The
three winning stories will feature in the autumn 2014 issue of The
Moth and the winners will be invited to read at a special event at the
Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin in September 2014.
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