In collaboration with core members of the ENSFR team, Ed Hogan (Open University) delivered an event called ‘Writing Your Work’ on the premises of Arka Original Funerals, in Brighton, as part of the Being Human Festival [beinghumanfestival.org]. The event, which featured a number of bespoke writing activities, was attended exclusively by staff of Arka, and…
Which short-story last made you cry – for good reasons? Good question, because I thought I would be able to answer it easily. I thought about anthologies and collections and favourite writers and came up blank. I reread Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘Blackness’ and remained dry eyed. The short story is my favourite form, and I cry…
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. More specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, engaging with the forces that have helped to shape the production, dissemination, and reception of short stories over the last…
XIII International Conference on Microfiction: Microfiction & Intertextuality, Thessaloniki, 7 -9 October 2026 Τhe School of Philology and the School of Italian Language and Literature, the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) invite you to participate in the XIII International Conference on Microfiction, entitled “Microfiction and Intertextuality,” which they are co-organizing. The conference…
Call for Papers EVENT: 6th Annual GOTH Symposium CFP DEADLINE: 12 January 2026 EVENT DATE: Friday 15 May 2026 ORGANIZERS: The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities GUEST PANEL: The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group TYPE: F2F HOST: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of…
Submissions are now open to the Scratch A4 Summer ’25 1000 word short story competition! Come and explore the rich and exhilarating possibilities of the short, short story – the six shortlisted writers reading their stories in the biannual event in Soho, London in June. This year’s judges are: Denise Rose Hansen, editorial…