Fish Publishing, based in County Cork, Ireland, have been running prestigious annual writing competitions which have drawn international attention for many years now. Winners’ work appears in its annual anthology. Somewhere Else member Alan Passey’s work appeared in the 2020 Anthology, and he was Longlisted this year in the Short Memoir Prize with his piece “Luigi and The President” about the loss of a childhood friend on the same night that JFK was assassinated.
“I was reflecting on how the adults around us at the time were distracted by this great world event when to us children, the great smaller world, our small world, event was the loss of Luigi,” Alan said, “Fish have a great reputation, and I was delighted to make the first cut, at least.”
‘Luigi ..’ is currently submitted for possible publication but as an appetiser you can read a shorter memoir piece on Alan’s blog here.
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