Edge Hill Prize shortlist
Collections by Madeleine D’Arcy, Carys Davies, Kirsty Gunn, Toby Litt, Anneliese Mackintosh and Rose Tremain shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2015.
Collections by Madeleine D’Arcy, Carys Davies, Kirsty Gunn, Toby Litt, Anneliese Mackintosh and Rose Tremain shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2015.
‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media Edge Hill University, UK Day 1, Friday 13th May 2016 TIME SESSION VENUE 8.30 – 9.00 Registration & Refreshments Business School Foyer 9.00 – 9.30 Welcome address B001 9.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions: Panels 1 & 2 Panel 1: Form, Format…
The fourth ENSFR conference will take place in Lille, France. Proposals are invited (in French or English) that explore the relation between short fiction and desire across different periods and genres, including flash fiction, the novella and short story cycles. As a concentrated and intense form of prose writing, short fiction lends itself very well…
A new collection of essays on Alice Munro is out. Here is a flyer of the collection. Flyer Space and Place in Alice Munro’s Fiction
Call for Papers: Affect and the Short Story (Cycle) The Journal of the Short Story in English announces a call for papers for an upcoming special section—“Affect and the Short Story (Cycle)” The guest editors are interested in papers addressing how the field of Affect Studies can help inform the ways we read short stories…
Poster Short Fiction Writers Short Fiction Writers With a Theory: Re-Reading Short Fiction Theory Through the Lens of New Writing and New Media 11-12 June 2015, Université Catholique de Lille, France Room RS 248 — 58 rue du Port — 59000 Lille
CONSTRUCTING COHERENCE IN THE BRITISH SHORT STORY CYCLE 15-16 October 2015 Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) Patrick Alasdair Gill (Mainz) and Florian Kläger (Würzburg) While the American short story cycle has recently been the object of extensive critical discussion, the same can hardly be said of its British counterpart. Still, thematically unified short story cycles…