Dear ENSFR members, We are excited to announce that the ENSFR is launching a new writing group in September (all welcome to join). To celebrate we have an organized a writers of the ENSFR event to showcase the brilliant work that writers in the network are producing. The writers speaking at the event are Ed…
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…
Call for Papers EVENT: 6th Annual GOTH Symposium CFP DEADLINE: 12 January 2026 EVENT DATE: Friday 15 May 2026 ORGANIZERS: The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities GUEST PANEL: The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group TYPE: F2F HOST: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of…
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…
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…
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…