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 Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
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…
Event: An Evening with ENSFR Authors 24.06.2025 (6:00pm-8:00pm) GMT
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…
Scratch A4 Summer 25 Competition!
Submissions are now open to the Scratch A4 Summer ’25 1000 word short story competition! Come and explore the rich and exhilarating possibilities of the short, short story – the six shortlisted writers reading their stories in the biannual event in Soho, London in June. This year’s judges are: Denise Rose Hansen, editorial…
Mike Fox Book Review by Livi Michael
| Blurred Edges| Ballerini Book Press| Luzern Switzerland 2026| £13.00 First-person narration is not exclusively associated with the short story but it is probably the form where it came into its own, allowing the writer to experiment with notions of the self, perception and reliability. All twelve of the stories in this fine collection feature…
Short fiction in a flash: a bite-size interview with Vesna Main, by Sonya Moor
What can short stories expect from readers? I expect you to remember that I am not a novel. If I say, ‘the queen died, then the king died of grief’, don’t ask what happened before or after. I shine a light on the particular, an event, a character, a time. The rest remains in the…
CFP: “American Shorts” University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 29-31, 2026
The contemporary American short story lives in a context where ‘short’ has tended towards the increasingly economic. Alongside a renewed interest in flash fiction, the 21st century has witnessed an explosion in literary terse forms extending within the web of the digital age, such as twitterature and nano-fiction. Beyond the written form, YouTube launched its…