CFP: “The Health of the Short Story” – Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.2: Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.2 special issue on Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, guest-edited by Christine Reynier, following the ENSFR conference at Montpellier in October 2019 is now available from Intellect Press. It also includes an interview with Sarah Hall, book reviews by Corinne Bigot and an interview with film-maker Eric Steel on…
Call for paper: Identity, exclusion and resistance. The representation of the character in the micro-story
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…
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ENSFR Annual Conference — Lisbon October 2022: Short Fiction as World Literature
In Death of a Discipline, Gayatri Spivak mentions the problematic identification of “literature” with the novel form in comparative literature (2005: 123). Her concern with our general blindness to non-hegemonic forms recalls the consternation frequently shown in short fiction criticism toward the enduring novel-centrism of literary studies. This conference aims to bring together scholars with…
Call for Articles: Theorizing Short Story Practice in the 21st Century
You are invited to submit a full article for possible inclusion in a special issue of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. The issue theme is “Theorizing Short Story Practice in the 21st Century.” It has been thirty years since Charles E. May edited the influential The New Short Story Theories (1994). In those thirty years, Creative…
Ethel Colburn Mayne: Selected Stories, edited by Elke D’hoker
This new book contains a selection of the short stories of the Irish writer, Ethel Colburn Mayne, who published her first stories in The Yellow Book but later also contributed to modernist magazines and was routinely compared to Katherine Mansfield. Her work has been wrongly sidelined and really deserves to be more widely read. Copies…