Edge Hill Prize 2020 winner
Shelley Day has been named the winner of the 2020 Edge Hill Prize for her debut collection, What Are You Like. Ruby Cowling won the Readers’ Choice Prize for another debut collection, This Paradise.
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Edge Hill Prize shortlist 2020.
The Edge Hill Prize 2020 for a published short story collection from the UK or Ireland has just been announced. £10,000 will be awarded to the winner in November. The collections are: Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne (Banshee Press) This Paradise by Ruby Cowling (Boiler House Press) What Are You Like by Shelley Day (Postbox Press) Sudden…
The Writer’s Torch – Edited by Phyllis Boumans, Elke D’hoker and Declan Meade
Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary writers. Available at: https://stingingfly.org/product/the-writers-torch/ Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Special Issue: The Health of the Short Story
Out now, Vol. 12.1 of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice . This first of two special issues, guest-edited by Lucy Dawes Durneen, is dedicated to ‘The Health of the Short Story’. It includes articles, short fiction and reflective texts responding to that broad theme from many directions, including discussions of authors ranging from E….
International Symposium: The American Short Story Old and New
International Symposium: The American Short Story: Old and New, October 15-17, 2020 Organized by the Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria and the Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) The American Short Story: Old and New October 15-17, 2020 Photo: Robin Peer CONFERENCE DIRECTORS Gudrun M. Grabher University…
Keynote Speakers confirmed for ENSFR conference, Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality, Manchester 2023
We are very pleased to confirm our distinguished keynote speakers for this year’s ENSFR Conference, Manchester University 23-25th October 2023. They are: Jon McGregor, short-fiction writer and novelist, author of This Isn’t The Sort of Thing That Happens to Some One Like You (Bloomsbury 2012) Paul March-Russell, author of The Short Story: An Introduction (EUP 2009) Maria…
ENSFR Reading Group
The ENSFR reading group The ENSFR reading group aims to provide a digital space for early career researchers and postgraduate students to come together and discuss classic and new short fiction. The reading group is co-coordinated by Maddie Sinclair (University of Warwick), Paul Knowles (University of Manchester) and Ines Gstrein (University of Innsbruck). The group…