Ian Wild

Ian Wild is a writer and composer from Co. Cork. His broadcast work includes Way Out West – a comedy series for RTE Radio One; and over twenty children’s stories for RTE’s Fiction Fifteen. He has won numerous writing awards, the most recent being The Argus Award 2015, The Aeon Short Story Prize 2012 and the Fish International Short Story Prize 2009.

In 2011 he was one of four shortlisted writers (alongside Kevin Barry and Adam Marek) to be nominated for the Foundation Arts Prize – an award to the most promising writer of short stories in Ireland and the UK.

His published work includes:

The Naked Umbrella Thieves (Novel) Knightstone Press. 2011

Intercourse With Cacti (Poetry collection) Bradshaw Books 2003

The Woman Who Swallowed The Book of Kells (Short stories) Fish 2000

Between 1998 and 2003 four of his musical comedies were produced by Cork Opera House and Janus Theatre for the Cork Midsummer Festivals. The first three toured nationally.

The Pirates in Short Pants

Marco Polo’s Toilet Brush (Irish Examiner’s ‘Play of the Year’)

Rachmaninov’s Maid

Spaghetti Western.

In 2009 received a literature bursary from the Irish Arts Council to write a collection of short stories.

From 2010 to 2012 he was short fiction editor of Southword magazine for the Munster Literature Centre and judge of the Seán Ó Faoláín Prize.