Cork International Short Story Festival

Cork International Short Story Festival http://www.corkshortstory.net
Visit our festival website for a complete events programme, available writing workshops, and booking options.

In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. The festival showcases readings, literary forums and workshops. In 2003, the Munster Literature Centre introduced the Seán Ó’Faoláin Short Story Prize, an annual international short s

tory competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists. This too is presented during the festival. Following continued growth and additional funding, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was introduced in 2005, coinciding with Cork's designation as that year's European Capital of Culture. The award was recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world.
2011 saw the festival take the new name of the "Cork International Short Story Festival". Click here to read about why the name changed. While the O'Connor Award was discontinued in 2016, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship was introduced in its place. The Fellowship aims to bring a talented and accomplished international writer to Cork to present fresh learning opportunities to local writers, bringing new energy to the local literary scene.

Tickets now available for featuring Camilla Grudova, Mary Costello, Mark Anthony Jarman, Manuel Muñoz and many more fr...
05/09/2024

Tickets now available for featuring Camilla Grudova, Mary Costello, Mark Anthony Jarman, Manuel Muñoz and many more from 16 - 19 October.

Our Saturday lineup at Cork International Short Story Festival - the Ó Faoláin & Flash Fiction winner readings, Neil Cam...
24/10/2023

Our Saturday lineup at Cork International Short Story Festival - the Ó Faoláin & Flash Fiction winner readings, Neil Campbell & Fergus Cronin, Yan Ge & Ada Zhang, and Moira Fowley and Kim Fu 👏

Our Friday events at the festival! HOWL New Irish Writing and Four Faced Liar readings, Sheila Armstrong and Alice Jolly...
24/10/2023

Our Friday events at the festival! HOWL New Irish Writing and Four Faced Liar readings, Sheila Armstrong and Alice Jolly, and Gothataone Meong and Sidik Fofana👏📚

Our brilliant Thursday lineup at Cork International Short Story Festival . The From The Well showcase, Thomas Morris an...
19/10/2023

Our brilliant Thursday lineup at Cork International Short Story Festival . The From The Well showcase, Thomas Morris and Niamh Mulvey, and Leon Craig and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

18/10/2023
Our fantastic Thursday lineup for the Cork International Short Story Festival. Our wonderful Thursday lineup for Cork In...
09/10/2023

Our fantastic Thursday lineup for the Cork International Short Story Festival.

Our wonderful Thursday lineup for Cork International Short Story Festival. Thomas Morris & Niamh Mulvey, and Leon Craig with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. Thursday will also feature a presentation of interviews with Kate O'Brien and William Trevor, and a showcase from the excellent From The Well.

We hope to see you there!

http://corkshortstory.net/thursday.html

The week is here!The Cork International Short Story Festival 2023 kicks off on Wednesday with a wonderful lineup. We're ...
09/10/2023

The week is here!

The Cork International Short Story Festival 2023 kicks off on Wednesday with a wonderful lineup. We're delighted to bring you the Southword Showcase, the brilliant Órfhlaith Foyle and Beverly Parayno, and Alexander MacLeod. We hope to see you there 📖

Ticket details: http://corkshortstory.net/wednesday.html

We're delighted to have a wonderful host of q***r writers at this year's short story festival. Both our 'Writing Q***r F...
05/10/2023

We're delighted to have a wonderful host of q***r writers at this year's short story festival. Both our 'Writing Q***r Fabulism' event with Moira Fowley and Kim Fu, and Leon Craig discussing the brilliant 'Parallel Hells' alongside Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. We're also showing interviews with Kate O'Brien alongside William Trevor. Details available at corkshortstory.net

Another wonderful event that will be held as part of Cork International Short Story Festival next week is 'Writing the A...
04/10/2023

Another wonderful event that will be held as part of Cork International Short Story Festival next week is 'Writing the Asian Diaspora' with Ada Zhang and Yan Ge, moderated by
Beverly Parayno! Full ticket details here: http://corkshortstory.net/saturday.html

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