CISSF 2026 Zsuzsi Gartner
Cork Arts Theatre, Ireland, T23 X72D
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Munster Literature Centre Presents
Zsuzsi Gartner
Cork International Short Story Festival 2026
Duration of the event is 1 hour
Tickets: €5
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the story collection Better Living through Plastic Explosives, shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize, and of the widely acclaimed collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth. The Beguiling, a novel with embedded stories, was a finalist for the Writers Trust Award. She edited the anthology Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow and was the guest editor of Best Canada Stories 2026. Zsuzsi was the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in 2016 and is thrilled to return to Cork as the 2026 O’Connor Fellow. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, and has just completed her third short story collection.
“So inventive, so weirdly weird, readers will feel like they’ve been to a party that leaves them wondering at the genius of the host who pulled it off … A book as full of imagination as heart.” — Barbara Gowdy
(Moderator) Neleigh Olson holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky and an MA in “The Beatles, Popular Music and Society” from Liverpool Hope University. She is a writer based in Louisville, Kentucky and is co-owner and Managing Editor at GreenHorse Books.
Zsuzsi Gartner
Cork International Short Story Festival 2026
Duration of the event is 1 hour
Tickets: €5
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the story collection Better Living through Plastic Explosives, shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize, and of the widely acclaimed collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth. The Beguiling, a novel with embedded stories, was a finalist for the Writers Trust Award. She edited the anthology Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow and was the guest editor of Best Canada Stories 2026. Zsuzsi was the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in 2016 and is thrilled to return to Cork as the 2026 O’Connor Fellow. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, and has just completed her third short story collection.
“So inventive, so weirdly weird, readers will feel like they’ve been to a party that leaves them wondering at the genius of the host who pulled it off … A book as full of imagination as heart.” — Barbara Gowdy
(Moderator) Neleigh Olson holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky and an MA in “The Beatles, Popular Music and Society” from Liverpool Hope University. She is a writer based in Louisville, Kentucky and is co-owner and Managing Editor at GreenHorse Books.
