Publishers appeal to writing contest entrants for happy ending to literary inferno tale

IT IS a dramatic story with an almost tragic plot twist that could now have a happy ending.

Fire has destroyed hundreds of entries in one of the country's most popular writing competitions.

But Clem Cairns, the director of West Cork's Fish Publishing in Durrus, organisers of the competition, has issued an appeal for writers who entered Fish's first Very Short Story competition by post within the last month, to resend them.