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Frank O'Connor Short Story Award

The shortlist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award has been announced. Honouring the great Cork writer, the award has previously been won by Edna O'Brien, Miranda July and Haruki Murakami among others. Only original collections of short stories are eligible for the award, worth €25,000 to the winner. This year's shortlist is led by highly regarded American author Joyce Carol Oates, perhaps better known for her novels of which the latest is The Accursed. Her collection, Black Dahlia And White Rose, and that of Tomaz Dobozy, Siege 13, are not yet published in the UK or Ireland - please contact us by email directly to enquire about ordering from the US. The other shortlisted titles are below.

  • We're Flying

    We're Flying
    Peter Stamm

    Hardback · 04 Apr 2013 · €20.00

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    From the acclaimed author of Seven Years, a coolly arresting collection of stories that charts with extraordinary precision the impulses that determine the course of ordinary lives

  • Battleborn

    Battleborn
    Claire Vaye Watkins

    Paperback · 01 Aug 2013 · €11.99

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    From Las Vegas to the Blackrock Desert, Vaye Watkins's stories of hardship, violence and redemption take the reader right to the heart