Review: Cork International Short Story Festival

Organised annually by the Munster Literature Centre, the 17th Cork International Short Story Festival — the only one of its kind in the country and now the oldest in the world — has been taking place in Leeside all week, giving readers and writers a rare chance to revel in the pleasures of short form fiction.

Irish authors were to the fore, with a range of well-known names entertaining audiences at the Firkin Crane — the Shandon-based centre which became the festival’s home-base last year.

It was, however, the city newest venue, the ‘Goldie Chapel’ in Nano Nagle Place, which hosted the highlight evening — a joint reading by Madeleine D’Arcy and Danielle McLaughlin, two Cork authors whose story collections have been scooping up a host of literary awards.