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.
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.
Dear ENSFR members, Over the last couple of months we have set up a new communication group to enhance the network’s ability to share information about events, publications and call for papers. If you have any information on events, publications and call for papers that you would like to be shared and posted on the…
Blue Short Stories Special Issue N° 85 of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) Guest editors : Bénédicte Meillon, Université d’Angers, and Frédérique Spill, Université Jules Vernes Picardie Since the turn of the century, the stakes inherent in climate change have turned out to be indissoluble from the threats affecting coastal and marine…
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…
The 17th International Conference on the Short Story in English directed by Dr Maurice A. Lee will take place in Killarney, Ireland, in June 2025. Theme: “How it Works: The Uniqueness of the Short Story.” Often, the short story is defined by what it is not: the novel. Yet perhaps the better question to ask…
Placing Katherine Mansfield University of Birmingham 1–3 July 2025 Keynote speakers: Lauren Elkin (‘Mansfield Walking the City’) and Andrew Harrison (‘Mansfield in the Midlands’) With a special performance from musician Stepha Schweiger Katherine Mansfield once wrote ‘How hard it is to escape from places […] — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the…
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1 contains original fiction by Zoe Lambert on the theme of illness and caring, plus co-written fiction from Amy Lilwall and Rupert Loydell. There are articles on writers including Agatha Christie, Margot Lanagan, Flannery O’Connor and Patrick Gale, plus an unpublished short story by the British writer Carl Tighe, who…