Call for Papers EVENT: 6th Annual GOTH Symposium CFP DEADLINE: 12 January 2026 EVENT DATE: Friday 15 May 2026 ORGANIZERS: The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities GUEST PANEL: The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group TYPE: F2F HOST: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of…
A hybrid conference convened by the University of Warwick and Manchester in partnership with the European Network for Short Fiction Research. We are excited to announce this call for papers on Ecological Futurity in ShortFiction. We welcome papers that consider the ways in which short fiction envisions radical alternative futures to a world threatened by…
Confingo Publishing is launching The Crib and Other Stories, by Albertine Sarrazin, translated from the French by Sonya Moor. These short stories, which appear in English for the first time, were composed for the most part in prison, before Sarrazin’s novels were published to international acclaim in 1965. Here, Sarrazin turns her singular eye on…
Submissions are now open to the Scratch A4 Summer ’25 1000 word short story competition! Come and explore the rich and exhilarating possibilities of the short, short story – the six shortlisted writers reading their stories in the biannual event in Soho, London in June. This year’s judges are: Denise Rose Hansen, editorial…
Why did you choose to work on short fiction in your PhD thesis? During an MA at Durham University, I became interested in the genre’s marginality in the context of literary production. I encountered an interesting quote from J.G. Ballard which got me thinking about the hierarchy of genres and the unevenness of literary space….