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The Edgehill Prize shortlist includes
Dark Lies the Island
 
   

Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry's second collection of stories, has been shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, joining Emma Donoghue, Jon McGregor, Adam Marek, Lucy Wood and Jane Rogers.  The winner will be announced on 4th ...
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City of Bohane shortlisted for IMPAC
Prize 2013
 
   
Kevin Barry's debut novel has now added the Impac shortlist to it's impressive rosta of prize nominations.  The winner will be announced on June 6th 2013.
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SNAKE ROPES on Costa First Novel Shortlist
 
   
The 'hypnotic, original and vivid' Snake Ropes by Jess Richards (Sceptre, May 2012) joins Benjamin Woods' The Bellwether Revivals, Francesca Segal's The Innocents and JW Ironmonger's The Notable Brain of Maximillian ...
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Kevin Barry wins Sunday Times EFG Short
Story Award
 
   
Kevin Barry's brilliant story 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' has won the £30,000 prize. Described by Melvyn Bragg as full of 'wit pathos and great energy' and by Hanif Kureishi as 'an astonishing story that is both daringly original and full of heart', ...
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Beer Trip to Llandudno shortlisted for
Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize
 
   
Kevin Barry's brilliant story Beer Trip to Llandudno, included in his forthcoming collection Dark Lies The Island, is one of six stories shortlisted for the £30,000 prize. The winner will be announced on 30th March at the Oxford Literary Festival.
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City of Bohane shortlisted for Costa
First Novel Award 2011
 
   
Kevin Barry's brilliant City of Bohane joins the list of four first novels in contention for the Costa First Novel Award, the winner of which will go on to contest the Costa Book of the Year. Category winners (for Novel, First Novel, Biography, ...
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OCeallaigh shortlisted for Frank O'Connor
Prize ... again!
 
   
Philip OCeallaigh is again nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize 2009 for his second story collection, The Pleasant Light of Day, published by Penguin Ireland in February.  His first collection, Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse, was ...
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Amanda Smyth's Black Rock on Waterstones
New Voices 2009
 
   
Amanda Smyth's debut novel is one of twelve new voices chosen by Waterstones as one to watch.  She joins Mari Strachan, Richard Milward, Anthony Quinn and Yiyun Lee amongst others on the list which last year introduced us to Sadie Jones' ...
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City of Bohane shortlisted for Irish Book
of the Year
 
   
Kevin Barry's 'electrifying' debut novel City of Bohane has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.  The winner is announced on 17th November 2011
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Galaxy British Book Newcomer of the Year
Award for Catherine O‘Flynn
 
   
Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost has been awarded the Galaxy British Book Award for Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year at a ceremony hosted by Richard & Judy on April 9th.  She beat off competition from Stef Penney, Paul Torday, Markus ...
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