Previous judges, Roddy Doyle and Colum McCann are honorary patrons. (Past honorary patrons were Frank McCourt and Dermot Healy). The judge for this year is novelist and short story writer, Sean Lusk.
Her previous writing has appeared in publications such as the Bristol Short Story Prize ... its lens on South Asian women in the diaspora The collection of stories in her debut story collection ...
A sizeable proportion of these writers were Irish women. These include (and are not ... I was a little upset, but cracked on with my own short story writing regardless. A few were published ...