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Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Winner 2020

I Ate It All And I Really Thought I Wouldn’t

by Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn HughesĀ is the author ofĀ Orchid & the WaspĀ (Oneworld 2018), which won the Collyer Bristow Prize, was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Awards, the Butler Literary Award and longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her poetry collection,Ā Gathering EvidenceĀ (Carcanet 2014), won the Shine/Strong Award and was shortlisted for four other prizes. Her work has appeared inĀ Granta,Ā POETRY,Ā Tin House,Ā Best British Poetry,Ā BBC Radio 3Ā and elsewhere. She has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and she was recently Visiting Writer at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. For her short fiction, she won The Moth International Short Story Prize 2018 and an O.Henry Prize in 2019.

Shadowplay
by Joseph O’Connor
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Midwinter Break
by Bernard MacLaverty
Solar Bones
by Mike McCormack
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Previous Winners

2020 – I Ate it all and I Really Thought I Wouldn’t by Caoilinn Hughes

2019 – ParrotĀ by Nicole Flattery

2018 – How to Build a Space RocketĀ by Roisin O’Donnell

2017 – Back to BonesĀ by Christine Dwyer Hickey

2016 – The VisitĀ by Orla McAlinden

2015 – A Slanting of the SunĀ by Donal Ryan

2014 – Rest DayĀ by John Boyne

2013 –Ā The Things We Lose The Things We Leave BehindĀ by Billy O’Callaghan

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