tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84656877640340344352024-01-12T16:10:05.036-08:00FISH PUBLISHINGFish Publishing runs three annual writing contests - short story, poetry and flash fictionFish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-66138970675562099662011-07-26T03:10:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:10:52.767-07:00Billy Collins to judge the Fish Publishing Poetry Contest 2011/2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjYCDHjojy3k2Egei_fAWV0bGZC9T5_-r0AMiIVEm2QhJIk873szBUbA5xdlz3YsSen_PjfLgeYo8GeigJyMfIZ6VujwNmh7Kc0lWyMPMpvCWl9hgoFM-wQ0zYdZA9LLR9W5xISaT-XA/s1600/collins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGjYCDHjojy3k2Egei_fAWV0bGZC9T5_-r0AMiIVEm2QhJIk873szBUbA5xdlz3YsSen_PjfLgeYo8GeigJyMfIZ6VujwNmh7Kc0lWyMPMpvCWl9hgoFM-wQ0zYdZA9LLR9W5xISaT-XA/s1600/collins.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div>United States Poet Laureate (2001–2003)<br />
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Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.<br />
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Billy Collins has published eight collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, and Ballistics, and most recently, Horoscopes for the Dead. A collection of his haiku, titled She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in fall 2006. He also edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2006, and edited Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds, with paintings by David Allen Sibley (November 2009). <br />
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Included among the honors Billy Collins has received are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Levinson Prize — all awarded by Poetry magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry.<br />
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In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. Billy Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.<br />
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(Excerpt from http://www.barclayagency.com/collins.html#)Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-35997038157424888282011-07-22T03:55:00.000-07:002011-07-22T03:55:07.840-07:00David Mitchell to judge the Fish Publishing Short Story Contest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-St707oa4qH6WdhmQP9koON-3r5cFg3I-Ni4ry-SnXLEJuihTc5mh-TTuvK9lssmY6w0hvczh9t5g8WfArZhR32oWDBj0a41isZ6Ed43IxWozwN3Z2U1GluuePK6m5J3kwK2KIjlO6U/s1600/mitchelld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-St707oa4qH6WdhmQP9koON-3r5cFg3I-Ni4ry-SnXLEJuihTc5mh-TTuvK9lssmY6w0hvczh9t5g8WfArZhR32oWDBj0a41isZ6Ed43IxWozwN3Z2U1GluuePK6m5J3kwK2KIjlO6U/s1600/mitchelld.jpg" /></a></div>Fish Publishing are very proud to announce that the author David Mitchell will be the judge of the Fish Publishing Short Story Contest that opens on 1st August.<br />
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Prizes and awards<br />
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1999 Guardian First Book Award (shortlist) Ghostwritten<br />
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1999 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Ghostwritten<br />
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2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) number9dream<br />
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2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) number9dream<br />
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2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Cloud Atlas<br />
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2005 British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award Cloud Atlas<br />
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2005 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Cloud Atlas<br />
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2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) (shortlist) Cloud Atlas<br />
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2006 Costa Novel Award (shortlist) Black Swan Green<br />
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2006 Quill Book Award (USA) (general fiction - shortlist) Black Swan Green<br />
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2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region Best Book) (shortlist) Black Swan Green<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife.[1] After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Clonakilty, Ireland, with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, number9dream(2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed amongTime magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist David Ebershoff.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For more information go to http://www.thousandautumns.com/</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-14486175095635625262011-07-16T03:46:00.000-07:002011-07-16T03:46:44.526-07:00The Fish Publishing Anthology Launch 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1f4rhUdp8ioB5K5pjtMZ92hZ-owIQsXlAswPles82OuqyyHZrxhnHFv6konc5nhcJ1Wu39hKPMOJRv7RkWfMPIh2InUVCvNqp1bI1393-KkwDqg4xdq7BCNofT7rKI24n78S4Rbu96Q/s1600/Group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1f4rhUdp8ioB5K5pjtMZ92hZ-owIQsXlAswPles82OuqyyHZrxhnHFv6konc5nhcJ1Wu39hKPMOJRv7RkWfMPIh2InUVCvNqp1bI1393-KkwDqg4xdq7BCNofT7rKI24n78S4Rbu96Q/s1600/Group.jpg" /></a></div><br />
The winning writers and the dedicated organizers of the Fish Publishing Anthology Launch 2011Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-38839020075564884982011-07-16T03:40:00.000-07:002011-07-16T03:40:56.615-07:00The Fish Poem<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Centos are collaged poems made up of fragments of other poems. For the official launch of the FISH Anthology in Bantry, Ireland, Brain Turner composed a Cento from the winning Fish poems — otherwise known as “The FISH Poem” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At the border, I forget who I am—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">like a leaf changing into a verb, I toss and turn, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">going nowhere. Now, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let us speak of love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Don’t think I don’t know</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the crackle of the fire at night, how </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the granite boulders burned </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">like nascent magma </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">as we waited there. For you, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll search until the end of time,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">with the wind from the west, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">sea spray on my face, ‘til the grass is gone </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and the rivers run dry, ‘til the end of time,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">wherever that is—now, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and now<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The work of the following poets were included:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ken Taylor, Jean Tuomey, Stephanie Scott, Diana Adams, Michael McCarthy, Jo Bell, Kita Shantiris, Cecile Callan, Malissa Priebe, Kirsty McCormack </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-33630794449310537772011-07-11T03:05:00.000-07:002011-07-11T03:05:11.444-07:00Poem celebrating the launch of the Fish Anthology by Ken Taylor, winner of the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2011in st brendan's church, bantry<br />
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the collar of christ is not mock<br />
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incantation but gothic & round<br />
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with nimbus behind coming off<br />
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as the lid of a shell so he has<br />
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the bearing of heroic oyster or<br />
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even pearl with steely eyes to<br />
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meet the mouth that will take<br />
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him in: grim push toward or<br />
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rebuttal of transubstantiation.<br />
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then it’s an oyster disguise as<br />
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he rises from canonical camo,<br />
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right hand in nonchalance,<br />
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aimed loosely at heaven. is<br />
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this my struggle or intention<br />
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of the stained-glass maker who<br />
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crafted a righteous sword stare<br />
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or the happenstance of sand<br />
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becoming both lucent, colored<br />
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glass & trope of grain of sand<br />
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becoming pearl becoming savior.<br />
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his stare goes over my head<br />
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through parallel stained window,<br />
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past wolf tone square as if call<br />
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to the halal falafel shop across<br />
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the street, with no customers –<br />
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the owner’s head bowed to allah.Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-9234638582362044982011-07-06T13:13:00.001-07:002011-07-06T13:13:59.956-07:00New Contemporary Memoir Course<div align="left" class="juLA" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With the success of the Flash Fiction Course, Fish Publishing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is very excited to announce<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a new Contemporary Memoir Course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a one-to-one online program that should take no longer than 6 months to complete and students can choose their own pace.</span></div><div class="Default"><br />
</div><div class="Default"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">This course is designed to stimulate, organise and craft your writing and develop an ability to write based on personal experience and with literary purpose. The aim of this course is not necessarily to come away with a full-length memoir under your belt but it will point you in the right direction by focusing on elements of the genre including characterisation, plot, dialogue and description that you can build upon. Most importantly it will make space in your life for writing. </span></div><div class="Default"><br />
</div><div class="Default"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Details of the course can be found at </span><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">www.fishpublishing.com</span></a></div><div class="Default"><br />
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</div>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-56155652481352101512011-07-06T13:12:00.001-07:002011-07-06T13:12:59.410-07:00Fish celebrates One Year of the Flash Fiction Creative Writing Course<div align="left" class="juLA" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Fish Publishing Online Flash Fiction Course continues after a successful first year. One of this year’s graduates: Jette-Julie Rosendal,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a runner up in the Fish One-Page Story Competition with “Cover”.</span></div><div align="left" class="juLA" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="juLA" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These are some of the things that former students said about the course:</span></div><div align="left" class="juLA" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #2e6ffd; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I enjoyed the course very much and it provided me with more than I expected. It was a tool to motivate me to write on a continuing and regular basis and it also introduced me to the pleasure and challenges of flash fiction work. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Mary Jane. I would say there was the right level of straight forward critique balance with positive prompts and encouraging feedback.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #2e6ffd; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Andrea Wicks</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">It helped me focus on my writing much more than before, the combo of being able to take my time, still someone waiting for my stories made WRITING a much more “real” thing. My writing has improved greatly, I can see that myself when rereading some of my stuff.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">I´m much more aware of making choices rather than just scribbling along, which has made me feel I have a pretty great toolbox now. And it was great fun too! Great variety in exercises, additional stuff to do, and constructive, hands-on advice! One of my stories written on the course made it into the Fish Anthology 2011, which I´m still trying to fathom, but have no doubt is a direct result of the course – and its teacher. The teacher- Mary-Jane Holmes had a feel for what I wanted to say, where I wanted to go with my stories, and guided me with clarity, professionalism and human warmth. She has made me much more aware of making choices rather than just scribbling along, which has made me feel I have a pretty great toolbox now. And she made it great fun too!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Jette-Julie Rosendal</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">I found the course to be hugely beneficial, challenging and also a lot of fun. For me, it was also a great driver to actually write “stuff” day in-day out for an extended period.</span></em></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Mary-Jane was very encouraging right from the start and she always found something positive to say about each assignment. Her criticism/analysis was always very clear and accurate (when I read it, I could immediately see the pertinence of it). At one point, I described her criticism of an assignment as “gently incisive” and I think that could be use to sum up just about all her interaction.</span></em></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Kieron Lyons</span></em></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><h2>Mary Jane is an excellent teacher – prompt, direct, precise, encouraging and clear. This is my first experience of tuition in writing. It’s been enjoyable and stimulating in equal measure.</h2><h2>Nancy Fermanagh</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">Thank you for a high quality course with prompt, valid feedback from an engaging writing professional.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">Fiona Sussman</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Details of the course can be found at www.fishpublishing.com</span></div>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-28016231394124229422011-07-06T13:11:00.000-07:002011-07-06T13:11:13.597-07:00Simon Mawer on Judging the Fish Short Story Competition 2010/2011<div class="juLA" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">On Judging the Fish Short Story Competition, 2010/2011</span></div><div class="juLA"><br />
</div><div class="juLA" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Short story writing is a bit like painting in water colours. It’s an art of precise strokes in which you need to be deft, accurate and sensitive to the faintest imbalance. And if it’s good then the finished whole is somehow more than the sum of its parts. On the other hand, novel writing is more like painting in oils. You can layer, rework, scrub things out, move near, stand back, live with the thing in your studio for a year or more, counterbalance a lapse here with a successful passage there. And all too often the whole is somehow less than its various parts. As a writer I feel I can do the oil painting, more or less; it’s the water colours that make me feel inadequate.</span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So it was with some trepidation that I received the final twenty stories that had made the cut in the Fish Short Story competition this year. No committee decision from now on: it was up to me alone. Aside from being a novelist I have also been a teacher – not of English or Creative Writing but of workaday Biology – and as soon as I turned to the first story I found the teacher in me asking questions: what are the criteria? where is the mark scheme? how can you be objective about this? The answer is, of course, you cannot. Assuming all the stories are competently written (they were) any further judgement must be purely subjective. So, feeling guilty, I threw years of pedagogical conditioning out of the window and sat down to read. I wasn’t a teacher marking exams, I was a writer doing the impossible: trying to rank works of art. And the only way I could do it was by deciding which of these stories I liked best.</span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">What struck me forcibly was the preponderance of family anguish stories. Isn’t this theme a trifle hackneyed? Perhaps it comes from that injunction of the Creative Writing course, that you should write about what you know. I’d say, write about what you imagine. Let your imagination take you to places and inside people whom you couldn’t possibly otherwise have known. Imagination is the key, the crux, the hinge on which all art turns.</span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So I was captivated by the desolate mining world evoked in Big Spirit Blow with its awful shrivelled corpses and the bewildered Ozzies trying to make out what was going on. And the biologist in me loved the gruesome mutated Cordyceps fungus attacking humans as the current species attack insects. The tone is right, the language is right, threat is expertly hinted at. You breathe in the spores as you read.</span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Closer to home, La Paix seemed a beautifully oblique portrait of a marriage broken by a single, mundane tragedy – half a lifetime distilled into a few thousand words, emotions alluded to rather than stated bluntly. I enjoyed the bleak detachment of the narration and the bitter irony of “insurance”, which is the leitmotiv of the story. </span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Finally my winner was The Space Between Louis and Me, for its humour and its gentle mockery of our current obsession with the virtual world. With social networks and online gaming replacing human interaction, who can doubt that someone like Louis, or Louisa, is waiting just round the corner for you? Yet beneath the veneer of humour was a real evocation of the isolation that imbues so much of modern life. And, as with a fine water colour, this piece was created with minimal brushstrokes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="juLA"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So that’s my verdict. And why do I still feel guilty? It's the damn teacher in me again, having awarded marks and then thinking, "Have I got it right?" as though there is some absolute rightness against which we will all eventually be judged …</span></div><div class="juLA"><br />
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</div><div align="right" class="juLA" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Simon Mawer</span></div><div align="right" class="juLA" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Rome</span></div><div align="right" class="juLA" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">March 2011</span></div>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-55901795228045078082011-07-06T13:09:00.000-07:002011-07-06T13:09:35.248-07:00The Fish Anthology 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmo5QaQxUYW_rjz7lKmTuL7zjLBb1cQnjtM3moMALfF1F_nbY5sA4SiD9ZqPoCwBFrdEshf2_B26cvqkOqkMYIvrMqsZFf49Jx84OEXE0dmSEPRANjbAzMjLOxMM51jSaGaG0t5N15WHk/s1600/invite+2011+black+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmo5QaQxUYW_rjz7lKmTuL7zjLBb1cQnjtM3moMALfF1F_nbY5sA4SiD9ZqPoCwBFrdEshf2_B26cvqkOqkMYIvrMqsZFf49Jx84OEXE0dmSEPRANjbAzMjLOxMM51jSaGaG0t5N15WHk/s320/invite+2011+black+.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The Fish Anthology was launched today at the West Cork Literary Festival. You can obtain a copy from <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/">www.fishpublishing.com</a>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-8409724220202147252011-03-28T13:09:00.000-07:002011-03-28T13:09:50.045-07:00TWO DAYS LEFT TO ENTER FISH POETRY PRIZE<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/poetry-contest-competition.php"><span style="color: blue;">Fish Poetry Prize</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> closes in 2 days. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/poetry-contest-competition.php"><span style="color: blue;">Brian Turner</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">, author of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Here Bullet</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Phantom Noise</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> is judging and this is an opportunity to be recognized by one of the most interesting and powerful poets of our time, and be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology. The first prize is €1,000 and the best ten poems will be published.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brian Turner will launch the Anthology on July 6 at the <a href="http://www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie/"><span style="color: blue;">West Cork Literary Festival</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leonard Cohen</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Entry is <a href="http://author.fishpublishing.com/get_user.php?from=/index.php&persontype=Author&cook=No"><span style="color: blue;">online</span></a> – €14, or by post – €16. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If posting, the address is:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fish Publishing,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Durrus,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bantry,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Co. Cork,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Make cheques payable to Fish Publishing. Do not put your name or address or any other details on the poem – use a separate sheet. Receipt of entry will be acknowleged by email. Poems will not be returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maximum words for each poem is 200, and you may enter as many as you wish, provided there is an entry fee for each one. Full details and rules are <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/poetry-contest-competition.php"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>, and are listed below in brief. Entry is deemed to be acceptance of these rules.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Publishing rights of the ten winning poems are held by Fish Publishing for one year after the publication of the Anthology. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last year the prize was won by Catherine Phil MacCarthy with <i>Limbo. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reproduced here – <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-left: 63.9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Limbo<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-left: 63.9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The firstborn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was handed back to them<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in a small cask<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not much bigger than <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a shoebox<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only wooden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>no more about it <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they took it home by pony and trap<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wasn’t the river in flood at the gate? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they had to climb down<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and wade through it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and she went alone with him <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to the corner of a field<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>below the house <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a dry shaded place<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where he opened a grave <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for it was April then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the pinkish <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blossoms of whitethorn were emerging<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and they lifted it low together <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">onto sods of damp earth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">placed holy water with it <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and everything she could to lay<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a holy innocent to rest <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as far as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>giving the boy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a name <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it was Martin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the brother in Chicago <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and when it came to saying good-bye<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he had to draw her away<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she was so <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lonely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that shook him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he covered it with clay<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for up to then<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">never a care<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but a demon for style <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">high heels<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you’ve never seen the like <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">though she gave birth again<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 63.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 504.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she was often seen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alone<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in that field <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.0pt; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Catherine Phil MacCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For writers who wish to improve their skills, the Fish online course in <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/flash-fiction-writing-course.php"><span style="color: blue;">Flash Fiction</span></a> offers a ten module course over three months. It is designed to be useful and fun, and includes free entry to next year’s One-Page Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 2011 Fish Short Story Prize will open on 1 June and close 30 Sept 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">W.B. Yeats</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #680032; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry Contest Rules<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #680032; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No entry form is needed. Entry is mostly on-line, or by post if required. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You can enter as many times as you wish. One poem per entry.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The poetry contest is open to poets of any nationality writing in English.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is no restriction on theme or style.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Poem length is restricted to 200 words. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The winning poems must be available for the anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fish holds publishing rights for one year after publication. Copyright remains with the author.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The judges' verdict is final. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Poems cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered. Do not put name or address with the poem, but on a separate sheet if entering by post, or in the correct place on the online entry system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Overall winners of the Fish Poetry Prize may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A poet who has had two poems in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years. They may enter other Fish Prizes in that time. (This is designed to give opportunities to a wider circle of emerging poets).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #340000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">André Gide</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">End</span></div><!--EndFragment-->Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-70212283691030544492011-03-17T02:17:00.000-07:002011-03-17T02:17:00.124-07:00WINNERS OF THE 2010/11 FISH SHORT STORY PRIZE<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">17 March. St Patrick’s Day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">WHITE SMOKE! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">WINNERS OF THE 2010/11 FISH SHORT STORY PRIZE AS CHOSEN BY SIMON MAWER. (See Simon’s thoughts on the judging process and the stories below).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Winner:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Space Between Louis And Me </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Mary O’Donnell (Ireland)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">La Paix </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hannah-Fleur Fitz-Gibbon (UK)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Third:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Big Spirit Blow </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Porteous (Australia)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Runners-up, not in order:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bread and Stone </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sylvia Torti (USA)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Yellow Cardigan </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by Vicky Woodcraft (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Blue Notes </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jenni Lawson (USA)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You Only Know Who Your Mummy Is</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Kelly Holman (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Off My Trolley </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by Jude Bridge (Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Casting for Parts </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Caitlin Greene (Australia)</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Daddy's Rich and Mummy's Good-Looking </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jo Campbell (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">All of us at Fish would like to congratulate these ten writers. The Fish editorial staff worked diligently over the winter to read and shortlist the 1,900 stories that were entered, and I want to thank them for their time and care.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There will be some very disappointed writers on the shortlist that were not selected for the Anthology, and I would like to commend them highly on their achievement. As Simon Mawer indicates in his notes below, all on the shortlist were worthy of inclusion and there was little or nothing separating them from the winners. On another day, they might have been the ones. On another day, they will be.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The prizes will be awarded at the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology of short stories, flash fiction and poetry. Bantry in west Cork is the location, on Wednesday 6 July, at the West Cork Literary Festival. The ten winning stories will appear in the Anthology alongside the winners of the Fish One-Page and Poetry Prizes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Winner Mary O’Donnell, already a prominent Irish poet, receives €3,000. Second Hannah-Fleur Fitz-Gibbon gets a week at Anam Cara Writers’ and Artists’ Retreat in West Cork and €300, and third Robert Porteus receives €300. We at Fish hope that all of the writers can join Mary O’Donnell and read from their work at the launch.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Mawer on Judging the Fish Short Story Competition, 2010/2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Short story writing is a bit like painting in water colours. It’s an art of precise strokes in which you need to be deft, accurate and sensitive to the faintest imbalance. And if it’s good then the finished whole is somehow more than the sum of its parts. On the other hand, novel writing is more like painting in oils. You can layer, rework, scrub things out, move near, stand back, live with the thing in your studio for a year or more, counterbalance a lapse here with a successful passage there. And all too often the whole is somehow less than its various parts. As a writer I feel I can do the oil painting, more or less; it’s the water colours that make me feel inadequate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So it was with some trepidation that I received the stories that had made the cut in the Fish Short Story competition this year. No committee decision from now on: it was up to me alone. Aside from being a novelist I have also been a teacher – not of English or Creative Writing but of workaday Biology – and as soon as I turned to the first story I found the teacher in me asking questions: what are the criteria? where is the mark scheme? how can you be objective about this? The answer is, of course, you cannot. Assuming all the stories are competently written (they were) any further judgement must be purely subjective. So, feeling guilty, I threw years of pedagogical conditioning out of the window and sat down to read. I wasn’t a teacher marking exams, I was a writer doing the impossible: trying to rank works of art. And the only way I could do it was by deciding which of these stories I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">liked best</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What struck me forcibly was the preponderance of family anguish stories among the twenty. Isn’t this theme a trifle hackneyed? Perhaps it comes from that injunction of the Creative Writing course, that you should write about what you know. I’d say, write about what you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imagine</i>. Let your imagination take you to places and inside people whom you couldn’t possibly otherwise have known. Imagination is the key, the crux, the hinge on which all art turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So I was captivated by the desolate mining world evoked in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Big Spirit Blow</i> with its awful shrivelled corpses and the bewildered Ozzies trying to make out what was going on. And the biologist in me loved the gruesome mutated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cordyceps </i>fungus attacking humans as the current species attack insects. The tone is right, the language is right, threat is expertly hinted at. You breathe in the spores as you read.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Closer to home, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Paix</i> seemed a beautifully oblique portrait of a marriage broken by a single, mundane tragedy – half a lifetime distilled into a few thousand words, emotions alluded to rather than stated bluntly. I enjoyed the bleak detachment of the narration and the bitter irony of “insurance”, which is the leitmotiv of the story. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally my winner was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Space Between Louis and Me</i>, for its humour and its gentle mockery of our current obsession with the virtual world. With social networks and online gaming replacing human interaction, who can doubt that someone like Louis, or Louisa, is waiting just round the corner for you? Yet beneath the veneer of humour was a real evocation of the isolation that imbues so much of modern life. And, as with a fine water colour, this piece was created with minimal brushstrokes.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Mawer, March 2011. Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, there are just three days left to the close of the Fish One-Page Prize, which will be judged by Chris Stewart. You can enter a story of 300 words or less online or by post – as long as they are post-marked before the closing date they will qualify.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Fish Poetry Prize closes in 13 days. Brian Turner is judging and this is an opportunity to be recognized by one of the most interesting and powerful poets of our time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is the postal address. Entry for each competition is €14 and the first prize is €1,000. The ten best from each competition will be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For writers who wish to improve their skills, the Fish online course in Flash Fiction offers a ten module course over three months. It is designed to be useful and fun, and includes free entry to next year’s One-Page Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The 2011 Fish Short Story Prize will open on 1 June and close 30 Sept 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flash fiction, sudden fiction</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, microfiction, micro-story, short short, postcard fiction, prosetry and short short story are but a few of the terms used to describe the increasingly popular genre of the short short story. ‘One-page story’ is Fish’s preferred title, and </span></span><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/flash-fiction-contest-competition.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fish One-Page Story Prize</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has been an annual event since 2004.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 short short stories are selected each year to be published in the annual Fish Anthology. This year novelist Chris Stewart (author of </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Driving Over Lemons, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree,</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat) </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will be put to the pin of his collar to select 10 stories from the entries - a difficult task when, if history is to repeats itself, writing quality is so high, themes so varied and styles so unique.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quote from our website:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is an opportunity to attempt what is one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks - to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story in 300 words or less. </span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Flash Fiction</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is wonderfully entertaining to read and challenging to write, but we love it and so do the readers of our Anthology. This is another chance to get a story, however small, into this year's Fish Anthology.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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If you are a master of microprose, Fish Publishing is holding a free twitter fiction competition every month. Reply to our tweet detailing the contest on twitter with a nano story of 140 characters and you could be published in the Fish Anthology 2011. Deadline for the next contest is 30th October.Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-2449656781786071022010-09-18T06:37:00.000-07:002010-09-18T06:39:18.646-07:00Fish Publishing 2011 Poetry Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNJ4kpi-_4lS_6UbkriJAYAuDo0JxzFYVBDecUwdFjDHwEd16vEKnfIKe0XucBxfNKjHykCUNVF6U32NQwTiaXcWdmt_WTM9ZrvXLFr7Sp0Qh4bQ-kB772vhGoQPZX3w9RmGmAeKh1To/s1600/Turner_Brian.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNJ4kpi-_4lS_6UbkriJAYAuDo0JxzFYVBDecUwdFjDHwEd16vEKnfIKe0XucBxfNKjHykCUNVF6U32NQwTiaXcWdmt_WTM9ZrvXLFr7Sp0Qh4bQ-kB772vhGoQPZX3w9RmGmAeKh1To/s1600/Turner_Brian.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
The Fish Poetry Prize 2011<br />
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Opens: 20 August 2010<br />
Closes: 30 March 2011<br />
Results Announced: 30 April 2011<br />
Judge: Brian Turner<br />
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There is no restriction on the theme of poems, but there is a word limit of 200.<br />
All poems must be written in English and must not have been published previously.<br />
The best 10 poems will be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology.<br />
First prize €1,000.<br />
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Online Entries €14. Postal entries €16<br />
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A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2011 Fish Anthology.<br />
The best ten poems will be published in the 2011 Anthology and each poet will receive five copies of the Anthology.<br />
All winning poets will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2011.<br />
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Go to http://<a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php">www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php</a> for submission details.<br />
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Brian Turner's poetry was included in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. His collection Here, Bullet (Bloodaxe Books, 2007) was first published in the US by Alice James Books in 2005, where it has earned Turner nine major literary awards, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. In 2009 he was given an Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship. His second collection, Phantom Noise is published by Alice James Books in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in 2010.Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-18427074277101809082010-09-18T06:30:00.000-07:002010-09-18T06:30:13.032-07:00Fish Publishing One Page Fiction Competition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ziWlpdIHCnqYRjnvOK9bvFUg_3W6P7J8p14idpcJtWpd9JkNElmspsltPj2Z51WjZsY94Gpbeb-ScdFZY39p-bvNC4Fjyz1sAOyRywBzUuIKKwXSz3P_0WZIwjREFh1IWoKMpuwNLuc/s1600/chris-stewart-43015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ziWlpdIHCnqYRjnvOK9bvFUg_3W6P7J8p14idpcJtWpd9JkNElmspsltPj2Z51WjZsY94Gpbeb-ScdFZY39p-bvNC4Fjyz1sAOyRywBzUuIKKwXSz3P_0WZIwjREFh1IWoKMpuwNLuc/s320/chris-stewart-43015.jpg" /></a></div><br />
The Fish One-Page Story Prize - Flash Fiction - 2011<br />
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Opens: 20 August 2010<br />
Closes: 20 March 2011<br />
Results Announced: 30 April 2011<br />
Judges: Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons and founder member of the band Genesis<br />
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This competition accepts stories of max 300 words on any theme. €1,000 First Prize. The best 10 stories will be published in the Fish Anthology 2011.<br />
The winner and nine runners up will be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology.<br />
First Prize - €1,000 plus publication in the 2011 Fish Anthology.<br />
Nine runners-up will be published in the Anthology and will each receive plus five complementary copies of the Anthology.<br />
All winning authors will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July.<br />
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Go to http://<a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php">www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php</a> for submission details.<br />
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Online Entries €14. Postal entries €16<br />
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Chris Stewart, the drummer from Genesis' first album, is today better known as the witty author of Driving Over Lemons, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree and The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-28116097246992682762010-09-18T06:18:00.000-07:002010-09-18T06:31:46.372-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDhzMBr8Eg6v1jiYafvcvKpbWkkbsVDKCEPL1hItHb9kDC_sPU1CK9_3lMVLkTKhYR_YoFZXNn81mb756HjLQMhyphenhyphenJDQimoHE6hraIdbeYhVjRbHkwwhncsj0YrE3wt-m3OFekNHx5pEw/s1600/authorish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDhzMBr8Eg6v1jiYafvcvKpbWkkbsVDKCEPL1hItHb9kDC_sPU1CK9_3lMVLkTKhYR_YoFZXNn81mb756HjLQMhyphenhyphenJDQimoHE6hraIdbeYhVjRbHkwwhncsj0YrE3wt-m3OFekNHx5pEw/s320/authorish.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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17th Fish Short Story Prize<br />
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NOW OPEN<br />
Closes: 30th November 2010<br />
Results Announced: 17 March 2011<br />
Judge: Simon Mawer<br />
Online Entries (€20). Postal entries (€25)<br />
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The overall winner will receive €3,000, of which €1,000 is for travel to the launch of the Anthology. Second prize is a week at Anam Cara Writers' and Artists' Retreat and €300. Third prize €300.<br />
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The Fish Short Story Prize for 2010/2011 is open for entries. We are delighted to announce that Simon Mawer, author of "The Glass Room" (and seven other novels) will judge the prize.<br />
Fish Publishing runs the short story competition each year, the winners of which are published in the annual Fish Anthology.<br />
Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Dermot Healy, previously judges of the Fish Short Story Prize, are honorary patrons.<br />
The Fish Short Story Prize welcomes stories on any theme written in English, with a maximum of 5,000 words. The Anthology will be launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, July 2011.<br />
Fish have been running the short story contest since 1995. Publication in the anthology has been a stepping stone for many into successful writing careers.<br />
Go to http:/<a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php">/www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php </a>for submission details.<br />
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Simon Mawer is author of eight novels and two non fiction books. His latest novel, The Glass Room, published by Little, Brown in January 2009, was on the Man Booker shortlist. The next one, provisionally entitled Trapeze, is underway...<br />
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"Simon Mawer's work is rich with a desire to see through to the core of things."<br />
The ObserverFish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-8167573747765793592010-06-14T03:23:00.000-07:002010-06-14T03:23:05.453-07:00Online Flash Fiction Writing Course<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">ONLINE FLASH FICTION COURSE</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In response to a long-standing demand, we have developed an online <u><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/flash-fiction-writing-course.php">writing course</a></u> for Flash Fiction – ten snappy and exciting modules to be completed with online tutor <u><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/flash-fiction-course-tutor.php">Mary-Jane Holmes</a></u> within three months for </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">€</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">195. It will be fun and useful, entertaining and educational, and will be of benefit to writing in all genres while concentrating on the quirkiest and most difficult of all – Flash Fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Poetry and One-Page competitions are all done and dusted. The <u><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-stories-news.php">shortlists</a></u> and winners are chosen, and the <u><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/Fish-Anthology-2010.php">2010 Fish Anthology</a></u> is with the printers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Irish poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy was the overall winner of the Poetry Prize with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Limbo</i>, chosen by judge Matthew Sweeney who was clearly delighted with the standard of entries. Second came </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Alexander Narkiewicz (UK) with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mirror Ball,</i> and third Toby Fitch (Australia) with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last Night I Lay Awake</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">RUNNERS-UP <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ward Allen Woods</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Ken Taylor <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Debris Field</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Frederick Pollack <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Fisherman’s Song to the Mermaid</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Breda Wall Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Upstairs</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Ron Carey <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Public Poet</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Frank Prem <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Slim Volume</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Terry McDonagh <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Getting Dressed</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, Helena Nolan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The One-Page Prize was won by Zoe Sinclair from England with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Darling Mummy</i>. Second was <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Henrietta Guay from France with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Counting Na’an</i>, and third Susan O’Connor from England with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gold in Her Ring</i>. John Hegley and Simon Munnery had a great time judging this competition, and read the shortlist out to an audience in a Luton Pub to help with their final decision.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed;"><tbody>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And God Said<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></td> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Simon Cornish<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Wise Guys<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></td> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ted Sheehy<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I Don't Forget<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></td> <td style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 240.0pt;" valign="top" width="240"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Seamus Scanlon<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Five of the ten poets so far are coming to the launch of the Anthology in Bantry at the<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2061615115"> </a><u><a href="http://www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie/">West Cork Literary Festival</a></u> on 7 July, along with four of the One-Pagers and five short story winners. Unfortunately too many live too far away, in the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, and often can’t get the time or funding to make such a long journey. Others live closer but can’t get the time off work or family commitments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We’re delighted that Short Story Winner Jane Camens is flying from Australia. Should be a terrific evening. Come along if you can. Indeed come for the week and enjoy a fantastic <u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">programme</span></u> of literary events, many of which are free. There is a workshop on poetry with astonishing poet<a href="http://www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie/programme/sub-nav-1.256.html"> Leanne O’Sullivan</a>, and one on reading and performing poetry with comedian/poet Owen O,Neill, and one on “Writing For Women” with Catherine Dunne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are afternoon seminars with literary agent Jonathan Williams (perhaps the most useful man for a writer to meet), travel writer Tim Mackintosh Smyth, novelist John Boyne, and many others. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Other News.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Fish Short Story Prize will open in August and, as always, the closing date is 30 November. The details will be on the website, and we will include them in a newsletter too. The One-Page and Poetry prizes will open soon after, though the closing dates are in April 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-44850560672747399142010-03-15T02:32:00.000-07:002010-03-15T02:32:20.875-07:00The Long and the Shortlists from the Fish Short Story Prize."Easy reading is damn hard writing." Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />
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Have a look at the <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-stories-news.php">Fish site</a> for the long and the short of it. The writers selected for the longlist and shortlist are too numerous to mention here, but are there in full on the Fish website. The nationalities or addresses of the writers are not published, but as is evident from the names they come from all over the world and the diversity of the stories reflects the divergence in culture and place. The uniform element is the quality, and competition judge Ronan Bennett is ruminating over the final list of winners. We are delighted with the stories and excited at the prospect of an excellent <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/fish-anthologies.php">Fish Anthology</a>.<br />
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the winners and runners-up will be announced on 19 March, two days later than the usual and stated date of 17th. We are sorry for this delay and hope that it does not inconvenience the writers who are waiting on the results.<br />
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Clem CairnsFish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-44338332069335458362009-12-17T06:27:00.000-08:002009-12-17T06:27:13.056-08:00Short Stories Piled inThe hunt is on for the ten best short stories of 2009. 1,650 stories were entered online, and 125 by post, totaling 1775. The stories have come from all over the world, with an increase on previous years from Australia and New Zealand, and a trickle starting from India. This is a wonderful development for Fish. We want to give writers in every country the opportunity to be published and we want the diversity of stories in our anthologies. The shortlist will be read by competition judge <a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02B12L504012626559">Ronan Bennett</a> in February and the winners will be announced on 17 March on <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/">www.fishpublishing.com</a><br />
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Meanwhile the <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/poetry-contest-competition.php">Fish Poetry Prize</a> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">€1,000 - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">is underway, with <a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth102">Matthew Sweeney</a> as judge. Closing date is 30 March 2010, and poets can enter online on our website or by post to Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland. Entry fee is 12 Euro per poem of up to 200 words. The ten best poems will be published in the 2010 Fish Anthology. We welcome poems written in English from all countries.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, sans-serif;">Clem Cairns</span>Fish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-414692198260446112009-11-17T21:10:00.000-08:002009-11-17T21:10:06.083-08:00Last days for the Fish Short Story PrizeIts getting into the final two weeks of the <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/">Fish Prize</a>, and the website is brimming with stories from writers from all over the world. I'm pleased to say that many of them are from Australia, and a smattering from New Zealand too. This is slightly surprising, as feedback from Australia was that it was too expensive to enter compared with other competitions. Goes to show, though, that writers, like anyone else, will pay for quality. With <a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-story-competition-contest.php">Ronan Bennett</a> judging, and publication in the Fish Anthology for ten of the stories, and the attractive prize money with a trip to Ireland for the book launch, the Fish net is hauling in some enthralling work from many nations. The closing date is 30 November, so if you have a story, be sure not to miss it.<br />
Clem CairnsFish Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03585438343009953191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465687764034034435.post-78513723913139570212009-11-09T07:37:00.000-08:002009-11-09T07:42:09.004-08:00New Book by Martin Malone, Fish Editor<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now that we are into the last few weeks of the 2009 </span><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/index.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fish Short Story Prize</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, (closing date 30 Nov) it is a good time to reflect on why Fish was started all those years ago, and to celebrate some of the achievements of some of the writers we have published.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fish Publishing was set up in 1994 to promote new and exciting writers by getting them into print. It is always a thrill to see writers take encouragement from the Fish experience and go on to greater things. A look at the alumni page should give new writers hope, with the many accounts there of writers who are still writing well and having work published.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 1997 Fish Anthology </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dog Days and Other Stories</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, we included one of the most memorable stories it has been our privilege to publish. It was called </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Black George</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and it was written by a soldier from Co. Kildare. Martin Malone was at the time a little known writer with a huge talent. A few years later in the 2000 Anthology </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the Bering Strait</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> we published </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Come To Me Sweet Dementia</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Martin, a completely different sort of story, savagely funny and achingly sad. Since then </span><a href="http://www.fishpublishing.com/editorial-consultancy-service.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Martin</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> has had much success with four novels and a book of short stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="webkit-fake-url://A7A9AB21-C8F0-4D3C-B4F3-7C64FB73D693/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="webkit-fake-url://A7A9AB21-C8F0-4D3C-B4F3-7C64FB73D693/image.tiff" width="127" /></a><span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now Chief Editor for Fish, Martin Malone is about to add to his impressive post-Fish tally of publications. </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Mango War and other stories </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is a</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">superb collection from one of the acknowledged masters of the form. </span></span><br />
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