Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition is now open for entries.

Submission Guidelines

• Open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in English.
• Open to writers of any nationality, anywhere in the world.
• No restriction on subject or style.
• Multiple entries are permitted.

Judge: Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) – winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021.

Entry fee: €19 per story

Prizes: 

1st Prize

• €2,000
• Featured reading at the Cork International Short Story Festival (with four-night hotel stay and full board)
• Publication in Southword

2nd Prize

• €500
• Publication in Southword

Four Runners-Up

• €400
• Publication in Southword

Deadline: 31st July, 2025.

All details, all submissions via their website.