The International Fish Short Story Prize 2009

The International Fish Short Story Prize 2009 is now open with Ronan Bennett as the judge. The ten best stories will be published in the annual Fish Anthology 2010. The prize was started in 1994 to get new writers published in book format. So far we have published over 300 writers from all over the [...]

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

Vita Sackville-West

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