New Writing Award

The award is assessed by a panel of readers, reading the works, plus a Fishamble person attending the production. You’ll need to set one ticket aside for this.

Fishamble appreciates the variety of new works and processes at the Fringe. Make this our problem. If your work is new and there is any kind of script, no matter what form it takes, feel free to submit.

Yes.

Fishamble understands that works will develop during rehearsals. Submit your script by the deadline and note this on the script (eg “we intend to devise….”). This is why we also attend the works in person.

No. Our thinking here is the award comes with a flexible range of supports and we feel that a writer who has previously won has benefited from that already.

Yes

Yes. Please note that in terms of fairness for all, if you’ve been working with Gavin Kostick or another dramaturg from Fishamble, they will sit out decision making when it comes to considering your work.

2025 Winner
Don’t Tell Dad About Diana by Hannah Power & Conor Murray

2025 Shortlisted Plays
Brambles by Cara Christie
Don’t Tell Dad About Diana by Hannah Power & Conor Murray
He Dies in the End by Liam McCarthy
Pea Dinneen: Raising her Voice by Pea Dinneen

2024 Winner
Sorry You Felt That Way
By Harry Butler

2024 Shortlisted Plays
Sorry You Felt That Way by Harry Butler
Happy Capital by Tommy Harris
Julius Caesar Variety Show by Joy Nesbitt
BITCH by Marty Breen

2023 Winner
endings.
By Fionntán Larney

2023 Shortlisted plays
In Heat by Sadhbh Malin
endings. by Fionntán Larney
Hyper by Ois O’Donoghue
Mosaic by Louis Deslis

2022 Winner
Tom Moran is a Big, Fat, Filthy, Disgusting Liar!
By Tom Moran

2022 Shortlisted plays
Frigid by Rosa Bowden
Lie Low by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
The Perfect Immigrant by Samuel Yakura

2019 Winner
Collapsible
By Margaret Perry

2019 Shortlisted plays
Minefield by Claire Monnelly
Admin by Oisín McKenna
Two Fingers Up by Seón Simpson and Gina Donnelly

2018 Winner
The Cat’s Mother
By Erica Murray

2018 Shortlisted Plays
beat. by Fionntán Larney
For Saoirse by Colm Keegan
Viva Voce by Lauren Shannon Jones

2017 Winner
All Honey
by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

2017 Shortlisted plays
Fierce Notions by Fionn Foley
Normal by Caitríona Daly
The Egg is a Lonely Hunter by Hannah Mamalis

2016 Winner
Animalia
by Ian Toner

2016 Shortlisted plays
BlackCatfishMusketeer  by Carys D. Coburn
Coast by Tracy Martin
TRYST by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Brí.

2015 Winner
Overshadowed
by Eva O’Connor

2015 Shortlisted plays
Our Island by Barry McStay
Remember to Breathe by Orla Murphy
HARDER FASTER MORE by Tracy Martin

2014 Winner
Between Trees and Water
by Fiona McGeown and Thomas Conway

2014 Shortlisted Plays
Reckoners by Ross Dungan
Pilgrim by Philip Doherty
My Name is Saoirse by Eva O’Connor

2013 Winner
Boys and Girls
by Carys D. Coburn

2013 Shortlisted Plays
Postscript by Noelle Brown and Michelle Brown
Lippy by Bush Moukarzel and Mark O’Halloran
Pondling by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman

2012 Winner
Death of the Tradesmen
by Shaun Dunne

2012 Shortlisted Plays
Solpadeine is My Boyfriend by Stefanie Preissner,
Clowns by Demian Fox, Shane O’Brien and James Walmsley
The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle by Ross Dungan

2011 Winner
The Flamboyant Bird
by Damian Kearney

2011 Shortlisted Plays
You Can’t Just Leave, There’s Always Something by Dan Colley, James Hickson, Louise Melinn, Mairin O’Grady
Luca and the Sunshine by Nick Lee
The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins
In My Bed by Veronica Dyas

2010 Winner
I (heart) Alice (heart) I
by Amy Conroy

2010 Shortlisted Plays
World’s End Lane by Louise Lowe/Anu Productions
Strollinstown by Diet of Worms
Berlin Love Tour by Lynda Radley/Playgroup

2009 Winner
Rough
by Grace Dyas

2009 Shortlisted Plays
Black Bessie by Una Kavanagh
Four Last Things by Lisa Tierney-Keogh
Broken Croí/Heart Briste by Manchán Magan
Johnny Meister and the Snitch by Rosemary Jenkinson

2008 Winner
Little Gem
by Elaine Murphy

2007 Winner
Married to the Sea
by Shona McCarthy