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 short story’s brevity and its ability to focus on a single moment make it an ideal form through which to explore the negotiation of affective tensions and the slow, flat feelings that shape the experience of neoliberal femininity.
Continue reading “Feelings and (Post)Feminism in Contemporary Women’s Short Stories”
A fictional umbrella, doll, or tombstone can engage readers as lived bodies with a lifetime of experience interacting with the material world of things. Continue reading “Intriguing and Indifferent Things on the Page”
The short story is an international form with various traditions and migrant authors are at the forefront of the current ‘short story revival’
Continue reading “Uncovering and Recentring the Migrant Short Story”
Consider the witch. Why did she frighten Europeans, once upon a time?
While early reviews routinely likened her work to that of Henry James, by 1923, Mayne was called ““the only short-story writer capable of succeeding Katherine Mansfield”
Continue reading “In Quest of Forgotten Yellow Book Writer Ethel Colburn Mayne”
Some one said to me the other day, ‘I don’t get Alice Munro.’ It’s okay, I told her. Continue reading “Alice Munro in the Classroom”