In collaboration with core members of the ENSFR team, Ed Hogan (Open University) delivered an event called ‘Writing Your Work’ on the premises of Arka Original Funerals, in Brighton, as part of the Being Human Festival [beinghumanfestival.org]. The event, which featured a number of bespoke writing activities, was attended exclusively by staff of Arka, and…
The contemporary American short story lives in a context where ‘short’ has tended towards the increasingly economic. Alongside a renewed interest in flash fiction, the 21st century has witnessed an explosion in literary terse forms extending within the web of the digital age, such as twitterature and nano-fiction. Beyond the written form, YouTube launched its…
G. Préher and C. Seltzer, editors of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) / Les cahiers de la nouvelle, are pleased to announce the publication of number 84, a special issue on Joyce Carol Oats, guested edited by Tanya Tomble. It is available online and printed by the PUR.
XIII International Conference on Microfiction: Microfiction & Intertextuality, Thessaloniki, 7 -9 October 2026 Τhe School of Philology and the School of Italian Language and Literature, the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) invite you to participate in the XIII International Conference on Microfiction, entitled “Microfiction and Intertextuality,” which they are co-organizing. The conference…
Atelier 5 : Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines(SEAC) / La nouvelle de langue anglaise The notion of emancipation is commonly associated with a release from legal, social, political, economic, cultural, religious, sexual or moral restraint to gain autonomy and self-determination. In Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta’s words, emancipation “literally means to give away ownership (ex: away; mancipum:…