Burning the bed: a short story by Patrick Chapman
Caroline and Stephen mark the end of their relationship by burning their bed on the beach
Snow Globe: A new short story by Danielle McLaughlin
A harassed artist’s installation critiquing the Irish property market causes a bit of a storm
The Little Statue: Christmas at the Cross Part II
A victim of domestic violence copes with a difficult Christmas in London
How to Build a Space Rocket by Roisín O’Donnell
The An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year for 2018
Rent and Bills by Emma Flynn: Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition winner
A young woman reflects on the price she pays for her relationship with a wealthy man
Waiting, a new short story by Mel O’Doherty
Longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award, a tale of bullying and parental love
The Cage, a short story by Tony Wright
A tale of alienation and isolation by the former guitarist of ASIWYFA
Cupcake’s Story, by Jac Shreeves-Lee
From her debut collection, Broadwater, a story about the immigrant experience in London
Viscera, a new short story by Dearbhaile Houston
A trip to Athens forces a woman to confront the truth about her relationship
Family News, a short story by Naoise Dolan
A woman must move in with her sister and niece in this new work by the Exciting Times author
Grace Jones by Irenosen Okojie, winner of AKO Caine Prize for African Writing
Sidra lost her family to a fire. Years later, she works as a Grace Jones impersonator
The Lost Generation, a short story by Rosemary Jenkinson
Past and present collide at a school reunion when a woman meets up with a lost love
Away Game, a story by John O’Donnell
Getting caught out on a trip away forces a man to think of home
You've read Cat Person, now read this Irish bad-sex short story
'What Feminism Is': the 2017 Séan Ó Faoláin Competition winning piece by Louise Nealon
Malachi dreams in a cupboard, a short story by June Caldwell
Room Little Darker author’s contribution to Doire Press’s Galway Stories: 2020 anthology
What good is love?, a short story by Jill Crawford
An old friend coming to stay spells trouble for a couple’s fragile relationship
The Lexicon of Babies, a short story by Sinéad Gleeson
A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations
The Palace, a short story by Cathy Sweeney
A sickness is spreading in the kingdom as a couple’s relationship comes under strain
Natterbean, a short story by June Caldwell
Book Club: From ‘Room Little Darker’, a Dublin taxi driver handles a tricky fare
The Lamb by Andrea Carter: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
A short story from Counterparts (Stinging Fly) by the author of the Inishowen Mysteries
Balloon Animals by Laura-Blaise McDowell: on Writing.ie Short Story of the Year shortlist
This story was first published in Still Worlds Turning, published by No Alibis Press
Mother, May I by Amy Gaffney: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
A graduate of UCD’s creative writing MA, Amy Gaffney co-edited The HCE Review
A Real Woman by Orla McAlinden: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
The story was first published in the author’s short story collection, Full of Grace
Parrot by Nicole Flattery: Writing.ie Short Story of the Year winner
12 Stories of Christmas - Day 1: A short story by award-winning author of Show Them A Good Time
Locksmiths, a short story by Wendy Erskine
Three women connected by blood are divided by more than just a generation gap
Yan Ge short story: Looking for the Japanese
12 stories of Christmas, Day 5: a story about a missing boy conjures up memories
Scenes from an Empty Attic, by Rosemary Jenkinson
12 Stories of Christmas: Day 2 – from the collection Aphrodite’s Kiss
Day after day, a short story by Ruth McKee
‘It’s a love letter and a dying letter. He has surpassed himself’
Summer fiction: A City of the Past, by Kathleen MacMahon
A new short story by Kathleen MacMahon, author of This Is How it Ends and The Long, Hot Summer
‘The Little Black’, a short story by John Connell
‘The vet was an elderly man and had a stale, spent smell about him’
Same same but different, a short story by Anne Hayden
A young woman, bereft since the death of her twin, tries to forge a new, singular identity
‘Psychobabble’ by Caoilinn Hughes, winner of The Moth Short Story Prize 2018
Judge Kevin Barry: ‘It’s both poignant and very funny, emotional yet sardonic’
‘Postcards are a Thing of the Past’ by Tracey Slaughter, The Moth Short Story Prize runner-up
Judge Kevin Barry: ‘It could be described almost as a kind of erotic travelogue’
‘Standard Deviation’ by Caoilinn Hughes: third place in The Moth short story prize
Kevin Barry: ‘the story of an odd encounter, it feels very close-in but it’s mysterious too’
All Bones, a short story by Mia Gallagher
Taken from her new collection ‘Shift’, a slowly developing portrait of a photographer
Lipstick, a short story by Meghan Helms
Out of Ireland summer fiction series: a mother dealing with drought and a missing son
The Great Blue Open, a short story by Ethel Rohan
The latest instalment in the Out of Ireland summer fiction series
Mum’s the Word: A short story by Philip MacCann
The latest instalment in our summer fiction series Out of Ireland
Split or Steal (I give that you might give): a short story by Giovanni Frazzetto
Out of Ireland summer fiction: this is the third of eight short stories in our series
Anakana Schofield short story: Strawberry Plants and Cabbages
Out of Ireland summer fiction: The world turns inwards on a girl and her mother
The art of revenge, a short story by Martin Malone
Love, hatred, compassion and cruelty interplay in this story from ‘This Cruel Station’
The Collectors, a short story by Jaki McCarrick
An unusual relationship develops between a kidnapper and his victim
Mr Salary – a short story by Sally Rooney
Mr Salary was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award
How to Learn Irish in Seventeen Steps, by Roisín O’Donnell
12 Stories of Christmas - Day 12: A short story from Wild Quiet, Roisín O’Donnell’s debut collection
New Zealand Flax, a short story by Eílís Ní Dhuibhne
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 11: A touching account of living with loss
Bleeding Boy, a short story by Alan McMonagle
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 10: a long, hot summer
Lane In Stay, a short story by Eimear Ryan
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 9: How a widow deals with her grief
Colm Tóibín short story: The Journey to Galway
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 8: Bad news from the front
Going, a short story by Belinda McKeon
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 7: A daughter copes with bad news
‘We’ve Got Each Other and That’s a Lot’, a short story by Jan Carson
A holiday read – 12 Days of Stories, Day 6: a mis-spent youth
Kevin Barry short story: Roethke In The Bughouse
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 5: a famous poet suffers a breakdown on Inisbofin
Dead Hens for Broken Eggs by Sara Baume
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 4: A young woman lives on the edge
Let’s Say I Am, a children’s short story by Richard Jones
A holiday read – 12 Days of Stories, Day 3: a prize-winning mouse’s tale
The wise man, a short story by Donal Ryan
A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 2: A seasonal love story
![Joe Armstrong: “Religion demands the submission of the mind, heart, will and body to man-made rules and a man-made god […] but submission is the opposite of personal adult maturity, thinking and deciding for oneself.”Photograph: Alan Betson](/polopoly_fs/1.4457302.1610542722!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg "Joe Armstrong: “Religion demands the submission of the mind, heart, will and body to man-made rules and a man-made god […] but submission is the opposite of personal adult maturity, thinking and deciding for oneself.”Photograph: Alan Betson")
