‘The feeling came back, the one I had been successfully avoiding for so long: shame’
Christmas Number One, a short story from the award-winning Greek-Irish author Soula Emmanuel
Short Stories
Lucy Caldwell: ‘People often misunderstand the appeal of a short story’
Lucy Caldwell celebrates the undervalued art of the short story
Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings
The Moth Short Story Prize 2025 judge Evie Wyld awarded this third prize
Bee Box by Martha Sprackland
The runner-up in this year’s Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by judge Evie Wyld
Moth Short Story Prize winner takes judge Evie Wyld ‘right back to the loneliness of having a small baby’
Clare Roche wins prize, with Martha Sprackland second and Shelley Hastings third
‘I don’t want to do this ... by myself’: The winning story of Moth Short Story Prize 2025
This week’s story is the winner of the Moth Short Story Prize 2025
Fairytale of Forestside: The fourth circle of hell
Sandra Kavanagh’s narrator Margo is tormented while out shopping in Belfast
‘I’m gone frail? Excuse me, but I’m as healthy as a goat’
Goodness, Gertie, wasn’t that something? says Rose, wiping her trousers. Isn’t that a story to tell in St Teresa’s?
‘What are you doing in the pub on your own then?’ A brush with scandal at Sackville Place
Maggie Armstrong has been shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year and Newcomer of the Year
Gertrude’s Favourite Pfeffernüsse by Melanie McGee Bianchi
The third-placed story in this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Louise Kennedy
Catastrophic, a new story by June Caldwell
The runner-up in this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Louise Kennedy
Short story: Reasons to End Us (An Aerial View) by Tracey Slaughter
This story, which won The Moth Short Story Prize, is chosen by Louise Kennedy
The North Road: A short story by Eoin McNamee
We got work in the fish factory in Lerwick. We could stay in the row of broken-down wooden prefabs behind it
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