ENSFR 7th Annual Conference Manchester: Landscape and Temporality
Dates: 23-25 October 2023
Our annual conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so asap. The deadline is 20 October.

Our annual conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so asap. The deadline is 20 October.

Registration is now open for the 2022 ENSFR conference, Short Fiction as World Literature hosted by the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities Centre for Comparative Studies October 27-29th. Keynote Speakers are: Helena C. Buescu (University of Lisbon) Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford) Olivia Michael (Manchester Metropolitan University) To register, please click…
We are pleased to announce the publication of number 72 of the Journal of the Short Story in English/Cahiers de la nouvelle, devoted to Elizabeth Spencer. This issue is dedicated to our colleagues specialized in American literature, Michel Bandry, Danièle Pitavy-Souques and Claude Maisonnat (who authored one of the articles), but also to Spencer herself,…
“The Persistence of the Short Story: Traditions and Futures” — 10-12 July 2024, University of Mainz, Germany The Society for the Study of the American Short Story, The American Literature Association, and the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, in collaboration with the ENSFR, have organized a three-day seminar series on the short story. Here…
The next issue of Microtextualidades (n. 9, May 2021) is now open to the submission of contributions. Coordinators: Eunice Ribeiro y Xaquín Núñez Sabarís Deadline: 15/01/2021 (Spanish version below) “The characters in the micro-story walk in profile.” This sentence by Andrés Neuman, extracted from his ten micro-notes on this narrative form, attributes to the protagonists…
International Symposium: The American Short Story: Old and New, October 15-17, 2020 Organized by the Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria and the Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) The American Short Story: Old and New October 15-17, 2020 Photo: Robin Peer CONFERENCE DIRECTORS Gudrun M. Grabher University…
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1 contains original fiction by Zoe Lambert on the theme of illness and caring, plus co-written fiction from Amy Lilwall and Rupert Loydell. There are articles on writers including Agatha Christie, Margot Lanagan, Flannery O’Connor and Patrick Gale, plus an unpublished short story by the British writer Carl Tighe, who…