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RTÉ Short Story Competition 2022 shortlist announced

Books • 14 Sep 22

The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021: We want your short stories!

The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021 in honour of Francis MacManus is now open for entries...

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 03 Mar 21

Shane Tivenan has won this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition

Winner of 2020 RTÉ Short Story Competition announced

Flower Wild, a short story by Shane Tivenan, was this evening announced as the winner of the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus.

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 29 Sep 20

Edel Moloney, author of The Brow of the Hill

RTÉ Short Story Shortlist 2020: The Brow of the Hill

A myth springs up about a "mountainy, barefoot girl"...

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 06 Oct 20

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2020: Neadú

A little boy, confined to home, finds a bird and with it a tantalising glimmer of the world beyond his boundaries

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 03 Oct 20

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2020 - read the winning story

Imagined testimony of a certain Irishwoman and an incident in Rome...

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 29 Sep 20

Julie Cruickshank, author of Beneath The Trees, Where Nobody Sees

RTÉ Short Story Shortlist 2020: Beneath the Trees Where...

A playdate with daughters and nephew, and a revelation

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 08 Oct 20

Aengus Murray, author of Hands; A Downpour

RTÉ Short Story Shortlist 2020: Hands; A Downpour

Single sentence, interior monologue of dazed Francis Mulcahy, standing in the rain on the street, gazing at a doorway

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 02 Oct 20

Francis MacManus 2019: hear the third prize winning story

All this week and next, you can hear the shortlisted stories from the RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition 2019 broadcast at 11.20pm weeknights. This story by Liz Houchin, read by Janet Moran, took third prize

Francis MacManus Short Story Competition • 19 Sep 19

Francis MacManus 2019 - hear the winning story

From Monday 16 to Friday 27 September, you can hear one story every weeknight at 11.20pm on RTÉ Radio 1 from this year's shortlist from the RTÉ Radio 1 short story competition. We start with the top prizewinning story, Honey Days by Stephen O'Reilly

Francis MacManus Short Story Competition • 24 Aug 20

Francis MacManus 2019 shortlist announced

RTÉ Radio 1 has announced the ten stories on the shortlist for this year's RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus, selected from over 2000 entries.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 26 Aug 19

RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition: In Madness and In Feathers

We're delighted to present the shortlisted stories from this year's RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus. Today, we present In Madness and In Feathers, by Méabh de Brún

RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition • 03 Dec 18

Francis MacManus