The GBP Short Story Prize 2016/17 is currently open to submissions. While it is, we'll be revisiting last year's fantastic longlist- and shortlistees, with links to their work. 

 

Our third finalist, from the longlist, is:

 

CHRIS CONNOLLY

 

Chris Connolly was born in Dublin in 1983. His fiction has appeared in the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Carve, the Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction, 2005–2015, and has been broadcast on RTÉ Radio. He won the 2015 Lascaux Review Fiction Prize, the Roberts Short Story Competition, and was highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize. In 2016, he won the Hennessy Emerging Fiction Prize. For more information visit chrisconnollywriter.com.

 

Chris’s GBP Prize 2015/16 longlisted story, No New You, can be accessed here.

 

Another story of Chris’s – Right or Good – won the 2016 Hennessy Emerging Fiction Prize. It can be found, and is free to read, here.