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
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…
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 14.2 Landscape and Temporality in Short Fiction
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 14.2 contains selected articles from the 2023 ENSFR conference on Landscape and Temporality plus an interview with writer Thomas Morris and a range of book reviews. Guest editors are Paul Knowles, Ana Garcia-Soriano and Madeleine Sinclair. Topics and authors covered include Inuit short stories, Hungarian short stories, short fiction…
Successful Flash In Translation Event at the PesText Festival 08.05.2025
The ENSFR working alongside writers from Essex’s University (UK), writers from the writing school at Innsbruck University (Austria) and writers from the PesText festival (Hungary) took part in a Flash in Translation Event. The event involved eight writers working in collaborative pairs from across the three participating countries to each produce a piece of Flash…
The 8th Annual ENSFR Conference (University of Artois, June 10-12, 2026)
Dear ENSFR Members, Following the ideas initiated at the Leuven conference in 2017 on the short story, its contexts and co-texts, the 2026 ENSFR conference will be devoted to short forms appearing in magazines and newspapers. The conference will consider any story printed in such media but also stories that were solely published in magazines…
Spotlight PhD/ECR Interview Series: Maddie Sinclair, by Ines Gstrein
Why did you choose to work on short fiction in your PhD thesis? During an MA at Durham University, I became interested in the genre’s marginality in the context of literary production. I encountered an interesting quote from J.G. Ballard which got me thinking about the hierarchy of genres and the unevenness of literary space….
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
A hybrid conference convened by the University of Warwick and Manchester in partnership with the European Network for Short Fiction Research. We are excited to announce this call for papers on Ecological Futurity in ShortFiction. We welcome papers that consider the ways in which short fiction envisions radical alternative futures to a world threatened by…