The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Longlist 2012
Hot on the heels of the longlist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize (for UK short story collections) comes the rather longer longlist for the €25,000 Frank O’Connor International … Continue reading
2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize Shortlist
More congratulations are in order – to the six short story collection shortlisted for the seventh Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, three of whom are Short Review authors, I’m … Continue reading
2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize Longlist
The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize has just announced its longlisted short story collections. As ever, it is a great list to start with if you’re looking for some … Continue reading
Simon Van Booy Wins 2009 Frank O’Connor award and Chris Beckett gets a two-novel deal
Congratulations to Simon Van Booy who is this year’s winner of the 35,000 Euro Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for his collection, Love Begins in Winter! We will be … Continue reading
Larry Dark, Director of The Story Prize, Talks About Short Stories
Author and Short Reviewer Sarah Salway talks (by email) to Larry Dark, founder and director of the $20,000 Story Prize, the largest prize for short story collections in America, which … Continue reading
Short story collection news: Short story collection wins New Zealand’s Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry.
Charlotte Grimshaw’s collection, Opportunity, has won New Zealand’s prestigious Montana Medal for Fiction. The judges said of the collection: “By turns touching, funny, dark, and redemptive, this is a book … Continue reading
