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
Survey for PhD research!
Please help Zohreh Baghban, a member of ENSFR. As part of her creative writing PhD research, she is conducting a survey on animals and food. The responses will contribute to her flash fiction collection. The survey takes around 15 minutes to complete. It would be great if you could submit your response by June 30,…
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 Book: Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney
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…
Event: An Evening with ENSFR Authors 24.06.2025 (6:00pm-8:00pm) GMT
Dear ENSFR members, the ENSFR is running an online event on 24.06.2025 with a selection of authors from the ENSFR who have released work recently. The event will take the form of four interviews, with the four authors C.D Rose, Ailsa Cox, Sonya Moor and Sue Dawes followed by Q and A. Running time for…
Being Human Festival and ENSFR
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…
Online Short Fiction Reading Group – Monday 29th September at 5pm (UK time)
During the meeting, we will be discussing Maddie’s reading suggestion: the short story “A Song for Sleep” by Bora Chung. The text can be accessed from this link. Our conversation will focus on the following key questions/themes that Maddie has selected: The first-person narration of the short story The use of language / the “language”…