Special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE 88, Spring 2027) and another publication Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2025 Guest Editors Xavier Lachazette (Le Mans Université, France), Jaine Chemmachery (Sorbonne Université, France) et Nicole Cloarec (Université de Rennes, France) Presentation Following “How Good Maugham Was: A Critical Reassessment”, the…
We are delighted to invite you to an interview with Ra Page, the CEO and Founder of Comma Press, on Monday 13th October, at 6pm (UK time), via Teams (see link below). Founded in 2007, Comma Press is a non-profit publishing house based in Manchester, UK, that publishes short story anthologies and single-author collections. Its…
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…
Lisa Blower Lisa Blower is the winner of the 2025 V.S Pritchard prize with her short story Blessings in Burslem In 2009, her short story Broken Crockery won the Guardian Weekend’s summer short fiction special.She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award for her story Barmouth in 2013. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks…
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…