This week’s story is the winner of the Moth Short Story Prize 2025

Sandra Kavanagh’s narrator Margo is tormented while out shopping in Belfast

Goodness, Gertie, wasn’t that something? says Rose, wiping her trousers. Isn’t that a story to tell in St Teresa’s?

Maggie Armstrong has been shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year and Newcomer of the Year

A new short story by Maya Kulukundis

The third-placed story in this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Louise Kennedy

The runner-up in this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Louise Kennedy

This story, which won The Moth Short Story Prize, is chosen by Louise Kennedy

We got work in the fish factory in Lerwick. We could stay in the row of broken-down wooden prefabs behind it

Silvia had always said she would like to write. ‘This is your chance,’ her husband had said. ‘Write a bestseller. Make me a millionaire’

Summer Fiction: Griffin had successfully presented the calling-in of another man’s labour as a thing responsible fathers did

An Irish couple’s encounter with another pair on holiday proves awkward

Life, even on a glorious day, did not stretch out enticingly before Holly. It seemed instead a grey corridor, strewn with dangers

Libby B Bushell’s story viscerally captures the fishing industry’s grim reality in her native Alaska

Jan approached the meat counter. I wouldn’t hold out much hope, the butcher said. Did she detect a smirk?

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

The winner of the £3,000 Moth Short Story competition 2023, chosen by author Ottessa Moshfegh

A middle-aged writer on holiday with his younger wife has more than the threat of jellyfish troubling him

Summer fiction: End of the Line by Michael J Farrell

‘The kooky space-time continuum … known as the Troubles must be given the definition of having been a time spent at the height of the Troubles’