The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
The Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is an annual award of €35,000 and is currently the world's richest prize for the short story form. The award is in memory of the late Frank O'Connor, one of the world's most renowned short story writers. The award, organised by the Munster Literature Centre and funded by Cork City Council, is presented in O'Connor's hometown of Cork, Ireland, at the end of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival. The prize is awarded to the author of the book judged to be the best collection of stories published in English for the first time anywhere in the world in the twelve months between a first publication date of between July 1st of the prior year and June 30th of the current year. If a translated book wins, the purse is shared equally between the author and translator. For more information please visit our dedicated award website:
http://www.frankoconnor-shortstory-award.net/
Click here to view the 2012 longlist!
Past Winners of the FOC Award


Edna O'Brien's Saints and Sinners (2011)
Ron Rash's Burning Bright (2010)
Simon Van Booy's Love Begins in Winter (2009)
Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
Miranda July's No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007)
Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006)
(shared with translators Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel)
Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005)
The Seán Ó Faoláin Prize
In 2002, the Munster Literature Centre introduced the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize, an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists. This too is presented during the FOC festival. This year's judge is poet, novelist & playwright Ian Wild. The deadline for entering the 2012 is 31 July, and the winner will be announced at this year's Cork International Short Story Festival. For more information, please visit the Munster Literature Centre homepage.
Past Winners of the SOF Prize

2011 Seán Ó Faoláin winner P.G. O'Connor
P.G. O'Connor's 'The Haggard' (2011)
Click here to read story in Southword
Nikita Nelin's 'Eddie' (2010)--Click here to read story in Southword
Alexa Beattie's 'Cold Cut' (2009)--Click here to read story in Southword
Julia Van Middlesworth's 'Daddy Dead' (2008)
Toby McGrath (2007)
Joyce Russell (2006)
James Moynihan (2005)
Jon Boilard (2004)
William Wall (2003)








