The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as your story is original and previously unpublished. The winners are chosen by a single judge each year, who reads the stories anonymously.
1st prize €3,000
2nd prize €1,000
3rd prize a week at The Moth Retreat
The winning story is printed as part of the summer fiction series in the Irish Times, while the 2nd and 3rd-prize-winning stories are published in the Irish Times online.