Katherine Mansfield Studies Call for Submissions

We are editing a Handbook of the Short Story in the World for Brill as part of the series Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies, and we are looking for chapters on some specific topics (see below). We are well aware that the chapters are broad in their scope. Some of these chapters should have…
The prestigious Edge Hill Prize is now in its 16th year and is the only national literary award to recognise excellence in a published, single-authored short story collection. This year’s shortlist includes two previously shortlisted writers and two debut collections, with the winner set to scoop a £10,000 prize. The five shortlisted books are:…
University of Angers, France 22-24 June 2022 “The nomad has a territory; he follows customary paths; […] A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own. The life of the nomad is the intermezzo.” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 380. “If the…
The “Short stories and short forms” team of the CIRPaLL laboratory has received funding from the Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships program. This European research program aims to promote transnational projects set up by networks of teacher-researchers in Europe in order to develop and share innovative practices in the fields of education, training and youth.
A message from Dr Rodge Glass to all those interested in Alasdair Gray’s short fiction. Follow the link below for further information about this exciting event. The University of Strathclyde and the Alasdair Gray Archive, in partnership with the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Western Brittany (HCTI), Aix-Marseille Universite (LERMA), Edge Hill University,…
We are pleased to announce the publication of numbers 80-81 of the Journal of the Short Story in English/Cahiers de la nouvelle, which is the special 40th anniversary issue. It finds a balance honoring the past and looking forward to the future of the short story and of short fiction research. Many of the scholarly…