CFP: “The Health of the Short Story” – Short Fiction in Theory and Practice


By Marni Appleton The short story’s brevity and its ability to focus on a single moment make it an ideal form through which to explore the negotiation of affective tensions and the slow, flat feelings that shape the experience of neoliberal femininity.
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…
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 number 72 of the Journal of the Short Story in English/Cahiers de la nouvelle, devoted to Elizabeth Spencer. This issue is dedicated to our colleagues specialized in American literature, Michel Bandry, Danièle Pitavy-Souques and Claude Maisonnat (who authored one of the articles), but also to Spencer herself,…
By Laura-Amalia Oulanne A fictional umbrella, doll, or tombstone can engage readers as lived bodies with a lifetime of experience interacting with the material world of things.
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…