FISH Publishing and Writing Competitions

About Fish Publishing http://www.fishpublishing.com

Fish Publishing is an independent publishing company based in the West of Ireland. It has been running writing contests since 1994. It is the aim of Fish Publishing to encourage and promote new writers. The annual Fish International Short Story Prize has become an established event on the literary calendar, and we are pleased to record that many authors published in the Fish Anthology have consequently achieved further publication and gone on to have flourishing writing careers. See Alumni Page.

We are delighted that for many years, Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy and Frank McCourt have been honorary patrons of the Fish Short Story Prize

Fish Publishing run two other competitions, The Fish One-Page Prize and The Fish Poetry Prize. Winners of all three annual competitions will also be published in the Fish Anthology during the West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry, West Cork, Ireland.

Many acclaimed writters have genourously given their time to act as judges for the Fish literary prizes, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them all for the time, effort and continued support they have given to Fish.
Comments from some of these writers about writing can be read on our Writing Short Stories page

Managed by Clem Cairns and Jula Walton, Fish Publishing's activities have also included the publication of Altergeist, a novel by Tim Booth, Small City Blues # 1-57 by Martin Kelleher, and The Woman Who Swallowed the Book of Kells - a collection of short stories by Ian Wild.

To see our full range of publications click Fish Anthologies and Novels

To read some of our published entries visit the Short Stories to Read Online


Fish Publishing offers a comprehensive Critique and Editorial Consultancy Service. Our editors are experienced in providing writers with constructive critical analysis and developmental assistance. They have been working with Fish for many years, providing support to writers at all stages of their work. They can assist writers to realise their potential with one-to-one editing. The Critique Service offers appraisals on short stories, one-page stories and poems, while the Editorial Consultancy Service provides authors with ongoing support with writing projects, giving feed-back and guidance for novelists, script writers and writers working on long term projects.

To contact Fish Publishing:

Postal: Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry,
Co. Cork, Ireland.
(There is no postal/zip code).

email: info@fishpublishing.com