G. Préher and C. Seltzer, editors of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) / Les cahiers de la nouvelle, are pleased to announce the publication of number 84, a special issue on Joyce Carol Oats, guested edited by Tanya Tomble.Similar Posts
Podcast: A Small Good Thing
A series of interviews from Andrea Marzocchi at the University of Surrey. Andrea discusses the short story form with academics, writers, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories. Previous episodes have included Michael Collins, Tom Conaghan, Michael Basseler and short story author Heuijung Hur. In the latest conversation he talks to Andrew…
Call for Articles on W. Somerset Maugham
Special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE 88, Spring 2027) and another publication Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2025 Guest Editors Xavier Lachazette (Le Mans Université, France), Jaine Chemmachery (Sorbonne Université, France) et Nicole Cloarec (Université de Rennes, France) Presentation Following “How Good Maugham Was: A Critical Reassessment”, the…
Scratch A4 Summer 25 Competition!
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…
CFP: “American Shorts” University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 29-31, 2026
The contemporary American short story lives in a context where ‘short’ has tended towards the increasingly economic. Alongside a renewed interest in flash fiction, the 21st century has witnessed an explosion in literary terse forms extending within the web of the digital age, such as twitterature and nano-fiction. Beyond the written form, YouTube launched its…
Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices, by J.R (Tim) Struthers, Ailsa Cox, Corrine Bigot, and Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Edinburgh University Press releases Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices, by J.R (Tim) Struthers, Ailsa Cox, Corrine Bigot, and Catherine Sheldrick Ross – an engaging and authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of Alice Munro, and an exciting new model for how criticism can be collectively written.
New Small Pleasures Episode
Small Pleasures podcast: In the latest episode, Livi Michael and Sonya Moor look at two marvels of short fiction – Sarah Hall’s ‘Mrs Fox’ and Jackie Kay’s ‘My Daughter the Fox’. Hall and Kay use elements of realism to ask outrageous questions: What happens when a man’s wife becomes a fox? Or when a woman…