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Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition
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The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world, submissions accepted from May 1st to July 31st annually. It is dedicated to one of Ireland’s most accomplished story writers and theorists, Seán Ó Faoláin, and is sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre.
The competition offers a generous cash prize of €2,000, plus the winning entry will be featured at the Cork International Short Story Festival (with a four-night hotel stay and full board for the winner!). All the winners’ stories will be published in Southword.
The judge for 2026 is Louise Hegarty, whose stories have appeared in Banshee, The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review and have been featured on BBC Radio 4. Her debut novel Fair Play and her short story collection Getting the Electric are published by Picador.
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