Tracey Slaughter’s ‘reasons to end us (an aerial view)’ has been crowned winner of the £3,000 Moth Short Story Prize. Her story will be published as part of the summer fiction series in the Irish Times. In 2018, Slaughter was awarded second prize for “Postcards are a Thing of the Past”.
The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as their story is original and previously unpublished. This year’s judge was Louise Kennedy.
'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell