The European Network for Short Fiction Research was established in 2013 with the aim of fostering and promoting the study of short fiction in European universities and in interaction with short fiction writers. After an inaugural meeting early in 2014, the ENSFR has organized annual conferences as well as sponsored several other study days and events. This website aims to be an interactive platform for sharing research, expertise, ideas and information about short fiction in its diversity of linguistic traditions and forms.
The Other Side of Hope is a new journal celebrating refugee and immigrant communities worldwide. Submission of fiction and poetry is open to refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants only. Non-fiction, reviews and interviews welcome from all, so long as the subject matter sheds light on refugee and immigrant life.
Deadline 31st July 2021.
More information available here
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.2 special issue on Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, guest-edited by Christine Reynier, following the ENSFR conference at Montpellier in October 2019 is now available from Intellect Press. It also includes an interview with Sarah Hall, book reviews by Corinne Bigot and an interview with film-maker Eric Steel on his adaption of David Bezmozgis’ ‘Minyan’ .
ARTICLES
Editorial :’The power of short fiction as a humble genre’
CHRISTINE REYNIER
‘Humbling the human: Posthuman explorations in contemporary short fiction’
ELKE D’HOKER
‘The singular effect of brevity: Why Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” could not have been a novel’
LISA FEKLISTOVA
‘Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction’
ALDA CORREIA
‘Tourism, tourists, humility and the humble in E. M. Forster’s “The Story of the Siren” (1920)’
EMMANUEL VERNADAKIS
‘Humility and the humble: A reading of the Nepali short stories of Maheshbikram Shah’
KRITIKA CHETTRI
‘”The extremely private literary giant”: Alice Munro’s poetics of humility’
AILSA COX
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.
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 There are articles on writers including Agatha Christie, Margot Lanagan, Flannery O’Connor and Patrick Gale, plus an unpublished short story by the British writer Carl Tighe, who recently died from Covid-19, accompanied by an appreciation by Elizabeth Baines. Paul March-Russell reviews Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story and Moy McCrory reviews Being Various, the anthology of new Irish Irish short stories edited by Lucy Caldwell. And you can find out about how oral ghost stories mingle the discourse of fact and fiction.
10.2, coming early in 2021, will be a special issue on Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, and will include an interview with Sarah Hall.