Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings
The Moth Short Story Prize 2025 judge Evie Wyld awarded this third prize
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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
Yan Ge short story: Looking for the Japanese
12 stories of Christmas, Day 5: a story about a missing boy conjures up memories
Bottle Man, a short story by Nicole Flattery
Out of Ireland summer fiction: this is the last in the series
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
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