The Moth Short Story Prize

31/12/2023

✨ FINAL CHANCE TO ENTER – CLOSING TODAY! ✨

You've got until the clock strikes MIDNIGHT on 31 December to submit your poems to The Moth Poetry Prize 2023.

Win a share of our €11,000 prize pot with a single poem!

🎆 http://bit.ly/mothpoetry23

28/12/2023

3 days to go!!

Calling all poets - we want to hear from you! 📢

CLOSING 31 DECEMBER!!

Total prize pot of €11,000.

bit.ly/mothpoetry23

13/11/2023

The Moth Poetry prize is OPEN – and we want to hear from you! We're on the hunt worldwide for the best single unpublished poem.

Judged by Hannah Sullivan
1st prize €6000
3 prizes of €1000 for shortlisted poets
A further 8 prizes of €250 for commended poems
Closing 31 December

Save the date: http://bit.ly/mothpoetry23

Poetry London Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Australian Poetry Poetry Society of Jamaica Poetry Book Society Poetry Society of America Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine Poets & Writers Listowel Writers' Week Writing Magazine Irish Writers Centre The Poetry Society

29/09/2023

12/09/2023

Huge congratulations to 2nd prize winner, Paul Currion!

Read this moving story awarded second prize by Ottessa Moshfesgh in The Moth Short Story Prize

31/08/2023

Jude Whiley has been announced as the winner of this year’s Moth Short Story Prize, for The Brain Named Itself. 

31/08/2023

Congratulations to all three winners!

This year’s judge on winner Jude Whiley; Paul Currion (second prize) and Natalie Bevilacqua (third prize)

11/08/2023

A few upcoming dates at St John's Theatre & Arts Centre, Carnegie Arts Centre Kenmare, The Glens Centre, Ardhowen Theatre, The Moat Theatre & Ramor Theatre

01/08/2023

Had a blast at Cork Arts Theatre last month, and a delightful evening with the author of Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes, Neil Titley. Next up, St. John's in Listowel on 18 August!

Tickets right this way > https://stjohnstheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173643987

01/08/2023

The Moth Nature Writing Prize is now open for entries! We're looking for the best writing (poetry or prose) on your relationship with nature.

🌿 Judged by Kathleen Jamie
🌿 3 prizes - 1st prize €1000 plus week at Circle of Misse, 2nd
prize €500, 3rd prize €250
🌿 Open worldwide
🌿 Closes 30 September
🌿 Winners published in Irish Times Books online

ENTER HERE > http://bit.ly/mothnature23

30/06/2023

FINAL WARNING! Closing for entries tonight, midnight wherever you're submitting from. ⏰

Go, go, go!
http://bit.ly/mothshortstoryprize23

23/06/2023

Just one week left to enter this year's Moth Short Story Prize!

1st prize winner published in summer fiction series in Irish Times Books, as well as cash prize of €3,000

2nd prize wins OPEN TRAVEL STIPEND to spend a week at the glorious Circle of Misse in France

3rd prize €1,000

ENTER HERE > https://tinyurl.com/MOTHSTORYPRIZE

19/01/2023

We're trying to streamline our online content and merge our FB pages into one - The Moth. So please do follow us there for all the latest updates on The Moth Short Story Prize, The Moth Poetry Prize, The Moth Nature Writing Prize and everything else besides. 🙂

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30/12/2022

Closing tomorrow!

'It has to seem like an adventure, it has to seem fun, it has to seem like something you’ve never done before. I’m not interested in polishing the monument' Louise Glück

The Moth Poetry Prize 2022 closes 31 December!

Make it an adventure: http://bit.ly/mothpoetry22

01/12/2022

Congratulations to Genevieve Carver, winner of The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022, judged by Max Porter!

We're thrilled to share that...

Genvieve Carver is Max Porter's winner of this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022, with her extraordinary poem 'Postcards from a Fulmar'! 🌿✨

'The ironic and the tender are perfectly fused, and formal innovations are cleverly tethered to meaning. Both the birds and the language were thrillingly – and in unexpected ways – alive in this piece.'

Read more here > https://bit.ly/3VluNHT

18/11/2022

'Between poems, I am not a poet, only someone with a yearning to achieve—what? That concentration again.'

6 weeks to go until the deadline for this year's €11,000 Moth Poetry Prize, to be judged this year by Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück: http://bit.ly/mothpoetry22

28/10/2022

The Moth Short Story Prize will continue - with a bigger prize pot! So watch this space. And sign up here if you want to be kept up to speed with all of our prizes: http://bit.ly/mothmail

Arts and literature magazines the Moth and the Caterpillar will cease publishing next summer, its directors have announced, but the four literary prizes associated with the magazines will continue with increased prize pots. 

21/09/2022

Have you ordered your autumn issue of The Moth?

If not, then head right this way! > https://bit.ly/3R30rqR

21/09/2022

Nobel Prize Laureate, Louise Gluck, judges this year's Moth Poetry Prize, worth over €10,000.

Entries are open now – and close on 31 December! 💌

Details here: https://bit.ly/3f9OzWV

Make sure to sign up to our mailing list for reminders: http://bit.ly/mothmail

15/09/2022

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Send us your piece of POETRY or PROSE that best explores your relationship with the natural world before midnight tonight, wherever you are in the world.

You could win €1000 + a week at Circle of Misse in France, plus publication in the winter issue of The Moth

ENTER HERE: http://bit.ly/mothnature22

08/09/2022

The Moth Nature Writing Prize aims to encourage and celebrate the art of nature writing - poetry and prose - and is judged this year by Max Porter.

Closing 15 September

🌿 The prize is open to anyone over 16.
🌿 Work should be original and unpublished.
🌿 There is a 4,000 maximum word limit, but you can enter as many pieces as you like.
🌿 The entry fee is €15 per entry.

The winner will receive €1,000, a week at Circle of Misse writing retreat in France and publication in the winter issue of The Moth.

Head over to our website to enter or check out our terms and conditions: bit.ly/mothnature22

02/09/2022

Have you written a story that explores your relationship with the natural world?

The Moth Nature Writing Prize closes in less than 2 weeks!

We're looking for prose *and* poetry which explores the writer's relationship with the natural world ...

What a great competition to be running.’ Robert Macfarlane

Your chance to win €1,000, be published in The Moth & spend a week at the glorious Circle of Misse in France ...

Details here > https://bit.ly/3eizkKA

30/06/2022

TODAY IS THE DAY! Enter online by midnight your time, wherever you are in the world, and be in with a chance to win €3,000, a week at Circle of Misse in France (plus €250 stipend) or €1,000 ...

ENTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3bjtsPK

21/06/2022

The Moth Art Prize 2022 is open for entries!

‘I consider the artists who have won The Moth Art Prize to date to be exceptional painters. It is a real honour to be part of this group and I am truly grateful.’ Blanca Amorós, 2021 winner

Details here > https://bit.ly/3tP2vKr

16/06/2022

Just two weeks left to enter The Moth Short Story Prize!

1st prize €3,000
2nd prize a week at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 stipdend
3rd prize €1,000

You can enter here > https://bit.ly/3O4ykag

15/06/2022

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