THE Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for 2015 has been awarded to Welsh writer Carys Davies for her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike.

An anthology of poets who were born in the province after 1960 is the first since the late Sean Dunne’s 1985 guide, says Colette Sheridan

BARBARA Leahy always wanted to write. But the 39-year-old insurance administrator from Ballinlough in Cork city didn’t know where to start.

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University College Cork has thrown a lifeline to the world’s most lucrative award for a collection of short stories.

A two-month residency has inspired the novelist to write columns about Cork on her return to Shanghai, says Colette Sheridan

Suji Kwock Kim, who will collect the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize in Cork, talks to Colette Sheridan about her work and heritage

THE veteran Irish writer Edna O’Brien was last night named the winner of the 2011 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for her collection, Saints and Sinners. O’Brien received the prize in person, at the Metropole Hotel in Cork. She is the first Irish writer to win.

The veteran Irish writer Edna O’Brien has been named the winner of the 2011 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for her collection, 'Saints and Sinners'.

A BRITISH writer Simon Van Booy has won the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for his collection, Love Begins in Winter. The €35,000 prize is the richest in the world for a short story collection.

COMPETITION is intensifying for the world’s largest short story award.

SOME of the biggest names in literature are competing for the inaugural €50,000 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, it emerged yesterday.

HOW do I love thee? Or, at least, how many ways can I dream up of telling thee that I love thee, even if thee couldn’t care less?