Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardLonglist2012

Given by Cork City Council

66 Works 3,645 Books 187 Reviews ½ 3.6
"In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's show more most beloved authors. ... The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival." - from web site show less
Stages:
All, Winner (11), Shortlist (50), Longlist (342)
Categories:
All, No Category (66)
Years:
All, 2015 (3), 2014 (2), 2013 (65), 2012 (66), 2011 (51), 2010 (50), 2009 (46), 2008 (36), 2006 (23)

Longlist 66

WorkYear
God Bless America: Stories by Steve Almond2012
Somewhere Else, or Even Here by A.J. Ashworth2012
Cabin Fever by Diane Awerbuck2012
420 Characters by Lou Beach2012
Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Frank Bill2012
Power Ballads (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Will Boast2012
Suitable Precautions by Laura Boudreau2012
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Shannon Cain2012
Pictures from Hopper (Salt Modern Fiction) by Neil Campbell2012
The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That Comes With It by O Thiam Chin2012
Mother America by Nuala Ni Chonchuir2012
This Is the Quickest Way Down (Proxima) by Charles Christian2012
The beating and other stories by Dave Chua2012
The China Factory: Stories by Mary Costello2012
Fires of Our Choosing by Eugene Cross2012
The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo2012
The Shelter of Neighbours by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne2012
Household Worms by Stanley Donwood2012
Listen Close to Me (Salt Modern Fiction) by Catherine Eisner2012
Shag Carpet Action by Matthew Firth2012
Somewhere in Minnesota by Orfhlaith Foyle2012
Singing a Man to Death: & Other Short Stories by Matthew Francis2012
My Date With Neanderthal Woman by David Galef2012
Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories by Dagoberto Gilb2012
The Habit of Love by Namita Gokhale2012
By Love Possessed: Stories by Lorna Goodison2012
Stopping for Strangers by Daniel Griffin2012
Married Love by Tessa Hadley2012
Difficult Pleasures by Anjum Hasan2012
My Mother Was An Upright Piano by Tania Hershman2012
Near Open Water: Stories by Keith Jardim2012
What's Not Said by James Martyn Joyce2012
The Beautiful One Has Come: Stories by Suzanne Kamata2012
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay2012
The War Tour by Zoe Lambert2012
Drifting House by Krys Lee2012
Hot Pink by Adam Levin2012
Smoked Meat by Rowena MacDonald2012
We Make Mud by Peter Markus2012
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor2012
Yellow is the Colour of Longing by K. R. Meera2012
Adios, Happy Homeland by Ana Menéndez2012
All the Lights by Clemens Meyer2012
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories by Kevin Moffett2012
And by Jim Mullarkey2012
Tales of the New World: Stories by Sabina Murray2012
The Book of Life by Stuart Nadler2012
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread by Joyce Carol Oates2012
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran2012
New World Fairy Tales by Cassandra Parkin2012
All the Voices Cry by Alice Petersen2012
Furnace by Wayne Price2012
The Kissing List by Stephanie Reents2012
The Big Dream by Rebecca Rosenblum2012
A Tendency to Be Gone by Pamela Ryder2012
Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber2012
This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud2012
Monstress: Stories by Lysley Tenorio2012
Floating Like the Dead: Stories by Yasuko Thanh2012
Moon Walking by Barbara Unkovic2012
Living arrangements by Laura Walter2012
We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories by Stephanie Powell Watts2012
Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty by Diane Williams2012
Once You Break a Knuckle by D.W. Wilson2012
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood2012
King of the sea by Dina Zaman2012

Descriptions

"In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. ... The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival." - from web site (English, Member-written)
The Munster Literature regrets to announce that the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is to be discontinued in 2016. The award was established in 2005 in an effort to increase the profile of the short story form on the literary scene, and to reward those who were judged to have written the best collection of stories that year. Serving our ethos of innovation and development, (English, Member-written)

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