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
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…
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Writers Taking Part in The Writers of the ENSFR Event
Lisa Blower Lisa Blower is the winner of the 2025 V.S Pritchard prize with her short story Blessings in Burslem In 2009, her short story Broken Crockery won the Guardian Weekend’s summer short fiction special.She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award for her story Barmouth in 2013. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks…
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…
Call For Submissions – Creative Journal Antenna
Antenna: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Health welcomes words and images attentive to life, in its fullness and its fragility. For it is mainly in moments of heightened awareness of our vulnerability, and of the vulnerability of the world we inhabit, that life invites us to slow down, listen, look, feel, and try to find…
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”…
ENSFR
The European Network for Short Fiction Research was created as a joint initiative of researchers at Edge Hill University (U.K.) and the CRILA research group (UPRES EA 4639), Université d’Angers, France. Our broad aim is to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers, and to stimulate further research, both theoretical and practice-based.