CFP: “The Health of the Short Story” – Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
Similar Posts
Study Day on Crime Fiction Lille Catholic University, France – 7 October 2022: New Date
Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 May 2022 Modern detective fiction is usually considered to have started with Edgar Allan Poe’s three Dupin short stories and it is certain that the Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand magazine brought the new genre to the attention of the world. Other notable writers who helped shape…
Keynote Speakers confirmed for ENSFR conference, Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality, Manchester 2023
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…
Edge Hill Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlisted titles for the Edge Hill Prize 2024 for a published collection from Britain and Ireland are as follows: Forgetting is How we Survive by David Frankel (Salt) After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape) Encounters with Everyday Madness by Charlie Hill (Roman Books) Monstrous Longing by Abi Hynes (Dahlia Publishing) Parables, Fables, Nightmares by Malachi McIntosh (The…
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1
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 There are articles on writers including Agatha Christie, Margot Lanagan, Flannery O’Connor and Patrick Gale, plus an unpublished short story by the British writer Carl Tighe, who…
ENSFR Annual Conference Lisbon 2022: Short Fiction as World Literature Oct.27-29
Registration is now open for the 2022 ENSFR conference, Short Fiction as World Literature hosted by the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities Centre for Comparative Studies October 27-29th. Keynote Speakers are: Helena C. Buescu (University of Lisbon) Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford) Olivia Michael (Manchester Metropolitan University) To register, please click…
Edge Hill Prize shortlist 2020.
The Edge Hill Prize 2020 for a published short story collection from the UK or Ireland has just been announced. £10,000 will be awarded to the winner in November. The collections are: Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne (Banshee Press) This Paradise by Ruby Cowling (Boiler House Press) What Are You Like by Shelley Day (Postbox Press) Sudden…