The winner of the £10,000 Edge Hill Prize for a published short story collection will be announced at an award ceremony in London on Saturday November 3rd. The shortlisted authors are Tessa Hadley, Sarah Hall, Alison MacLeod, Tom Rachman and Leone Ross. There will be readings from all five collections: book your tickets at Waterstones Bookshop, Piccadilly.
The American Short Story: New Horizons – Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 5-7 October 2017
ENSFR is pleased to be involved as collaborating organisation in the conference “The American Short Story: New Horizons”, the second annual conference of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, organised by Oliver Scheiding at the University of Mainz. Plenary speakers are Lorraine López (Vanderbilt University) and Kasia Boddy (University of Cambridge). The full programme can be found here.
Women Writing Across Cultures Conference
WOMEN WRITING ACROSS CULTURES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
An international symposium at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
Friday 26 September to Sunday 28 September 2014
This symposium aims to foster dialogue among researchers and practitioners dealing with women’s writing in a variety of fields:
- transnational writing and writing across cultures;
- writing across academic disciplines, across the humanities and social sciences, across the arts and sciences;
- encounters between the critical and the creative, the academic and the popular, art and life, history and life-writing, orality and literacy, collective and individual authorship, analysant and analyst;
- crossing temporal boundaries: women’s writing of the past impacting on the present, imagining futures for women’s writing.
Organized by the ‘What is Women’s Writing?’ Interdisciplinary Research Group, supported and funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
Speakers include short story writer Kate Clanchy
Conference: The Short Story and Short Story Collection in the Modernist Period: Between Theory and Practice.
Academia Belgica (Rome) * 12-14 September 2013
Universiteit Gent – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Università di Perugia
Keynote speakers: Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling), Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Raffaele Donnarumma (Università di Pisa)
The modernist period (1900-1940) is a time when the short story came into its own as an intricate, flexible and highly respected literary genre. Across Europe, writers experimented with the form in ways which have come to shape the short story until the present day. Within the changing publication contexts of the time, moreover, writers also devised new approaches to publish short stories together within a collection, sequence or cycle. In the first half of the twentieth century, finally, several writers and critics also sought to define the short story as a genre and to distinguish its characteristics from both earlier forms of shorter prose and from the novel.
This conference hopes to address all these different guises, debates and contexts of the short story in the modernist period, across different countries and literary traditions. Its primary aim is to reflect on the modern short story and short story collection from a theoretical perspective, but it also seeks to contextualise this theoretical approach through a number of case studies from different literary traditions. By bringing together scholars from these different traditions, the conference also aims to trace cross-references, intertextual links or general influences in a broader comparative perspective.
The conference is organised by the departments of literary studies of the universities of Ghent, Leuven and Perugia. It will take place in the Academia Belgica in Rome.
The program can found at the following link:
http://www.shortstoryandmodernism.ugent.be/programme