Katherine Mansfield Studies Call for Submissions

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…
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…
The next issue of Microtextualidades (n. 9, May 2021) is now open to the submission of contributions. Coordinators: Eunice Ribeiro y Xaquín Núñez Sabarís Deadline: 15/01/2021 (Spanish version below) “The characters in the micro-story walk in profile.” This sentence by Andrés Neuman, extracted from his ten micro-notes on this narrative form, attributes to the protagonists…
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CHILDREN Editors Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK and Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA Virginia Woolf once remarked that Katherine Mansfield had ‘a kind of childlikeness somewhere which has been much disfigured, but still exists’. This ‘childlikeness’ is indeed a facet of Mansfield’s personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and…
Vol. 12.2 , the second of two special issues on ‘the health of the short story’ guest-edited by Lucy Dawes Durneen is now available. Lucy’s editorial ‘Breaking ourselves open: Recovery and survival in the short form’ reflects on the process of editing and arranging articles that speak to and across the individual issues, and the…