Interview with 2025 Third prize winner - Morgan Brennan

Meet the Winners! Morgan Brennan lives in Berkshire and is a member of two brilliant writing groups. He has been writing short stories and flash fiction since he retired. He has had stories published by Flash Fiction Magazine and Secret Attic and have been shortlisted in the Exeter Short Story competition before. Morgan has also been longlisted in The Writers & Artists Short Story competition and the Farnborough Flash Fiction competition. How did you feel when you found out you’d won? I was absolutely delighted. I hadn’t looked out for the results, so the first I knew was when I got the email congratulating me. I had been shortlisted a few years ago in the competition, but this was extra special. Where did you get the idea? My fictional story of Malachy Doyle comes from an interest in the Troubles. I had viewed the BBC’s excellent documentary series, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland , and read Tim Pat Coogan’s seminal account of the period, The Tr...