Scientific Journals on Short Fiction

The Journal of the Short Story in English/Les cahiers de la nouvelle is one of the ENSFR’s closest partners, frequently publishing papers given at ENSFR conferences and throughout the year by ENSFR members.

“Founded in 1983, the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) is a biannual journal entirely devoted to the short story and to short forms of writing. Under French-American direction (Belmont University, Nashville and the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les patrimoines en lettres et langues [CIRPaLL] of Angers, France), it has an editorial team of international specialists who select articles according to the “double-blind review” principle with the aim of encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of analytical literary approaches. There are three types of issue devoted to general questions, themes or individual authors.” (taken from the publisher’s website).

 

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice is another of the ENSFR’s closest partners, which also publishes papers given at ENSFR conferences and throughout the year by ENSFR members.

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversity – including flash fiction, the novella, cycles, sequences, anthologies and single-author collections; hypertext, popular fiction (e.g. science fiction, horror), the prose poem, the non-fiction story and other hybrid genres. It looks at the short story from the practitioner’s viewpoint; we are concerned with the ongoing process and philosophy of composition rather than the ‘postevent’ dissection of literary texts. (taken from the publisher’s website)

 

Studies in the American Short Story (SASS) is an academic journal published by Penn State University Press.

Studies in the American Short Story (SASS) is the journal of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story. It publishes articles, notes, reviews, interviews, memoirs, and other materials related to short fiction in America. It is aimed at literary scholars, students of literature, libraries, and general serious readers. It covers all forms of American short fiction in English from its origin in the eighteenth century to the present. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, nationality, ethnicity, or any other reason. (taken from the publisher’s website)