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.

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…
Shelley Day has been named the winner of the 2020 Edge Hill Prize for her debut collection, What Are You Like. Ruby Cowling won the Readers’ Choice Prize for another debut collection, This Paradise.
This new book contains a selection of the short stories of the Irish writer, Ethel Colburn Mayne, who published her first stories in The Yellow Book but later also contributed to modernist magazines and was routinely compared to Katherine Mansfield. Her work has been wrongly sidelined and really deserves to be more widely read. Copies…
“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…
You are invited to submit a full article for possible inclusion in a special issue of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. The issue theme is “Theorizing Short Story Practice in the 21st Century.” It has been thirty years since Charles E. May edited the influential The New Short Story Theories (1994). In those thirty years, Creative…