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Short story collections are a particular favourite of ours. They're a great starting point for writers and a pleasure to produce. If you're finishing a collection then now is the time to talk to us!

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Self-published short stories

Ireland has been blessed with many masters of the shorter form over the years but the short story collection is a form that has been getting steadily less attention from larger publishers recently. Some of our earliest publications were short story collections and it’s a genre that is dear to us which is why we’re delighted to do our bit in keeping this essential literary genre alive and healthy.

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  • The Tay is Wet The Tay is Wet
    Ben Ryan

    ‘The Tay is Wet’ is a compilation of sixteen humourous stories about farm life in eastern Co Meath, Ireland, set mostly in the 1950’s.

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  • Feeding Strawberries to pigs Feeding Strawberries To Pigs
    Gerry Rose

    Gerry Rose writes with a fresh eye and an acute ear about human – and female - experience, and most particularly, about that Irish diaspora in Britain who have sometimes been overlooked

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  • Gallows – Large Gallows
    John Arden

    Gallows mingles black comedy with melodrama to probe the underside of Irish and English history from the 17th century to the 21st.

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  • Weaver’s shuttle Large The Weaver’s Shuttle
    Alcove Writers

    This anthology is a celebration of the friendship that has matured over the years together, sharing the love of words and the magic they weave.

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  • Town of fiction – Large Town of Fiction
    The Atlantis Collective

    Short stories where a woman meticulously plans a murder. A boy learns how to fly. A bird-watcher meets a rook. Poor fat Gwen is viewed by 255,899 people on a porn site.

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  • By night and day – Large By Night and Day
    Máire Welford

    A powerful and entertaining short story collection. Deftly painted and dealing with a wide range of human situations and emotional responses.

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  • ba_memories_in_afterglow_large Memories in Afterglow
    Patricia Kelly

    The stories in this book are influenced by events such as the author's time spent working as a nurse during the war, 43 years spent working in the Civil Service and the time she spent in Denmark.

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  • bk_reflections_large Reflections
    T.F. Millet

    The author had the good fortune to live in times when he could fish and shoot among the abundance of nature and befriend the many characters of the era. His enthusiasm for friends, nature and life flows gracefully through every story like his beloved River Slaney.

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  • Front cover of Among the Wicklow Hills Among the Wicklow Hills
    Nicholas Byrne

    A warm-hearted and refreshing collection of original short stories about ordinary people in west Wicklow, Ireland.

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  • Cover of Life Through the Long Window by Clare Lynch Life Through the Long Window
    Clare Lynch

    Short stories from Clare Lynch building on the success of her first collection, Short Steps in Long Grass.

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