Placing Katherine Mansfield University of Birmingham 1–3 July 2025 Keynote speakers: Lauren Elkin (‘Mansfield Walking the City’) and Andrew Harrison (‘Mansfield in the Midlands’) With a special performance from musician Stepha Schweiger Katherine Mansfield once wrote ‘How hard it is to escape from places […] — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the…
The shortlisted titles for the Edge Hill Prize 2024 for a published collection from Britain and Ireland are as follows: Forgetting is How we Survive by David Frankel (Salt) After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape) Encounters with Everyday Madness by Charlie Hill (Roman Books) Monstrous Longing by Abi Hynes (Dahlia Publishing) Parables, Fables, Nightmares by Malachi McIntosh (The…
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 14.1: Special Section on ‘The Short Story and Ecology’ Guest edited by A. J. Ashworth and Aleix Tura Vecino Vol. 14.1 of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice includes a special section on ‘The Short Story and Ecology’ with original fiction by Claire Dean and Ashley Bullen-Cutting, plus…
Dear ENSFR members, Over the last couple of months we have set up a new communication group to enhance the network’s ability to share information about events, publications and call for papers. If you have any information on events, publications and call for papers that you would like to be shared and posted on the…
The ENSFR reading group The ENSFR reading group aims to provide a digital space for early career researchers and postgraduate students to come together and discuss classic and new short fiction. The reading group is co-coordinated by Maddie Sinclair (University of Warwick), Paul Knowles (University of Manchester) and Ines Gstrein (University of Innsbruck). The group…