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


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:…
Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary writers. Available at: https://stingingfly.org/product/the-writers-torch/ Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney
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…
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…
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…
International Symposium: The American Short Story: Old and New, October 15-17, 2020 Organized by the Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria and the Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) The American Short Story: Old and New October 15-17, 2020 Photo: Robin Peer CONFERENCE DIRECTORS Gudrun M. Grabher University…