The ENSFR working alongside writers from Essex’s University (UK), writers from the writing school at Innsbruck University (Austria) and writers from the PesText festival (Hungary) took part in a Flash in Translation Event. The event involved eight writers working in collaborative pairs from across the three participating countries to each produce a piece of Flash…
I was very grateful (and shocked) to win the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction for my story ‘Late Velvet’. The prize is run by Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire, and this year the theme was ‘the unspoken’. The judges were Alison Moore, Joseph Hunter, Robert Duggan, and Jacques Tsiantar. The shortlisted…
1. Can you remember the first short story you ever read? I remember thinking Kafka’s The Metamorphosis was ridiculous. Later I fell in love with short fiction and thought differently about Kafka’s work, considering story but also themes related to society, working life and family. Ideas or moments in reading often inspire my writing. For…
The ENSFR reading group aims to provide a digital space for early-career researchers and postgraduate students to come together and informally discuss classic and contemporary short fiction. The reading group is co-coordinated by Paul Knowles (University of Manchester), Ines Gstrein (University of Innsbruck) and Maddie Sinclair (University of Warwick). The group usually meets once per…
Antenna: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Health welcomes words and images attentive to life, in its fullness and its fragility. For it is mainly in moments of heightened awareness of our vulnerability, and of the vulnerability of the world we inhabit, that life invites us to slow down, listen, look, feel, and try to find…