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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nThe aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction under 2000 words and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. That’s why we’ve teamed up with sixteen different literary and artistic institutions to not only offer cash prizes and writing retreats but also to ensure that all our shortlisters have the opportunity to be published in multiple print and online journals\, have their work put in front of literary agents\, and present their stories at an event. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-desperate-literature-short-fiction-prize-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Event: Short Fiction Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The next ENSFR short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 20th April at 5pm (UK time). Below\, you can find information on how to join the online meeting room. I have attached an iCalendar file that you can add to your calendar. \nDuring the meeting\, we will be discussing my reading suggestion: the short story “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington. It is a very short story at just 2\,5 pages long. You can access the short story from this link: https://biblioklept.org/2014/01/05/the-debutante-a-short-story-by-leonora-carrington/ \nOur conversation will focus on the following key questions that I have selected: \n\nWhat is the tone of this short story (e.g.\, serious/funny/…)?\nIs there a sentence in this short story that you particularly like or find particularly important? Why?\nDo you as a reader identify with the main character?\n“The Debutante” has a concern for appearance\, for the social significance of acting in particular ways\, culturally approved as “feminine” behaviour. Can you find evidence of this concern in the short story?\nCan you describe the relationship between the pairs “nature and culture” and between “human beings and animals” in this short story?\nWhat do you think of the short story’s ending?\n\nThose who are interested in exploring the work further might want to watch Elizabeth Hobbs’ short\, animated film based on Carrington’s short story (https://vimeo.com/940848616). It is not mandatory to watch the film in preparation for the meeting. \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82016619781?pwd=rvpnvMHbD3oAcdooYh7luRWP75pb2T.1 \nMeeting ID: 820 1661 9781 \nPasscode: 013348
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-short-fiction-reading-group/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTSTAMP:20260417T214100
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Scratch A4 Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nSubmissions are open for Scratch A4 Summer ’26… until midnight\, 25th April!​ \nThe Judges are: \nGurnaik Johal – Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. \nEmily Fish – Emily Fish began her publishing career as an Agent’s Assistant at Aitken Alexander Associates. After three years she moved into editorial at Faber\, and now works at Hutchinson Heinemann\, an imprint of Penguin Random House. \nTom Conaghan – Publisher at Scratch Books.​​ \nScratch A4 Summer ’26 will be held in Soho on the evening of Saturday 6th June.​​ \nTo enter our competition to read your story at the Summer ’26 edition of Scratch A4\, complete these two simple steps… \n1) Buy this Contestant Entry ticket. You will receive a Confirmation email. \n2) Forward this Confirmation email – attaching your <1000 word story – to ScratchA4entries@gmail.com  \nPlease take your name off the document itself  \nSubmissions close: Midnight Saturday 25th April \nIf your story is chosen in the shortlist of six\, you will need to be able to get to London that evening – even if you’re not shortlisted\, we really do recommend you come along anyway for a night of wonderment and good cheer. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-scratch-a4-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
DTSTAMP:20260417T214100
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Ironclad Short Story Competition\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nThe Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers. \nWe aim to run four short story competitions each year. \nPrize winning and shortlisted writers will be published in our July 2026 anthology. \nWe accept any length of story up to 6k words. \nDon’t use the word FOOTPRINT in the title unless it’s alongside a sub-heading or with other words or phrases. \nYou may use the word in the body of the text\, but you don’t have to. \nWhat we expect is that your work to be inspired by the word in some way. \nAny way. \nA way that might be unexpected…. or entirely expected\, but the story takes us somewhere interesting\, and grips us. \nWe’re looking for writers who have exciting voices and can move us. We believe that can happen in any genre of prose. \nPlease make sure you’ve read the terms and conditions carefully! \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-ironclad-short-story-competition-summer-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260518
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SUMMARY:Event: European Writers’ Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:The European Writers’ Festival returns for its third edition in 2026\, now established as a biennial event. This year’s festival promises to expand and evolve\, bringing together a new constellation of distinguished authors from across Europe. \nThe festival will take place from 16-17 May\, 2026\, at the British Library in London\, featuring two full days of panels\, performances\, and discussions. Organised by EUNIC London in partnership with the European Literature Network and the British Library\, with support from the Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom\, the event will showcase a diverse lineup of authors who will engage audiences on pressing contemporary issues. \nBuilding on the tradition of the 2024 edition—which brought together 30 authors from countries including Austria\, Belgium\, Bulgaria\, Cyprus\, Czech Republic\, Estonia\, France\, Greece\, Hungary\, Italy\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Netherlands\, Poland\, Portugal\, Romania\, Slovakia\, Slovenia\, Spain\, Sweden\, Turkey\, Ukraine\, and the UK—the 2026 festival will continue to foster dialogue and understanding through the written word.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-european-writers-festival-2026/
LOCATION:The British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, NW1 2DB
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SUMMARY:Event: Meet the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Team
DESCRIPTION:The ENSFR is delighted to welcome representatives of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for a conversation about the Prize\, its history\, the 2026 shortlist\, and wider discussions around the state of the contemporary short story. The speakers include Razmi Farook (Director-General of the Commonwealth Foundation) and Emma D’Costa (Consultant to the Foundation) who managed the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for many years and remains a valued advisor and consultant for the prize. \nThe judging process for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is underway. The shortlist will be announced in April\, the regional winners in May\, and the overall winner will be announced during the award ceremony in June 2026. The 2026 judging panel is chaired by award-winning British novelist and dramatist Louise Doughty. Louise’s fellow judges\, drawn from the five regions of the Commonwealth\, are: South African journalist\, author and short story writer Fred Khumalo (Africa); Bangladeshi writer\, translator and essayist Rifat Munim (Asia); Padlei Inuk Canadian poet\, novelist and scholar Norma Dunning (Canada and Europe); short story writer\, novelist and lawyer Sharma Taylor from Jamaica (Caribbean); and poet\, illustrator and author Maxine Beneba Clarke from Australia (Pacific). \nThe Commonwealth Short Story Prize is managed by the Commonwealth Foundation\, and was set up in 2012 to inspire\, develop and connect writers and storytellers across the Commonwealth. The Prize replaced the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (1996-2011). \nPlease join this online event via Teams: Stories Without Borders: Meet the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Team | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/stories-without-borders-meet-the-commonwealth-short-story-prize-team/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260520T190000
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SUMMARY:Event: Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Idyl of the Island’
DESCRIPTION:Join the Victorian Short Story Reading Group to discuss ‘The Idyl of the Island’\, by Susan Frances Harrison. \n\n\n\n\nThe Victorian Short Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story\, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. \nCurrent Theme: Colonial Short Stories: Canada \nThe group will consider and discuss tales of and from Canada. These will cover portrayals of new settlers\, indigenous first nations people\, the landscape\, and the flora and fauna. \n‘The Idyl of the Island’\, by Susan Frances Harrison \n(First published in The Week\, a Canadian literary periodical\, 1886) \nA sleeping\, unnamed lady\, becomes the subject of the male gaze. The gentleman\, transfixed by beauty\, wishes to claim both the lady and the island as his own\, raising parallels to colonialism\, which we can discuss. \nUpon registration you will receive a link to an on-line copy of the text and\, as it is a short story group\, it will require no more than an evening’s preparation to read the required material. \nSessions take place monthly between October and June at a venue in Chiswick\, London\, W4 1TT\, between 7 and 8.30 pm. At each session there is a brief introduction to the work\, followed by a group discussion in a relaxed atmosphere\, with wine and nibbles supplied.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-victorian-short-story-reading-group-the-idyl-of-the-island/
LOCATION:The Victorian Society\, 1 Priory Gardens\, Chiswick\, W4 2PD
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260531T190000
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SUMMARY:Event: An Evening with Colm Tóibín
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication of Colm Tóibín’s highly anticipated short story collection The News from Dublin (Picador)\, Writing on the Wall is delighted to reveal that the acclaimed Irish author will appear at WoWFEST26 on Sunday 31 May\, chaired by Professor Frank Shovlin. \nTóibín will discuss The News from Dublin\, a striking and deeply moving sequence of stories that span continents and generations\, from wartime Ireland to Barcelona\, Argentina and beyond. Moving between lives marked by exile\, secrecy and loss\, these luminous narratives explore family ties\, displacement\, and the enduring pull of home and memory. \nBorn in Enniscorthy in 1955\, Tóibín is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and short story collections\, including The Empty Family\, Brooklyn\, The Master\, The Magician and Long Island. A three-time Booker Prize finalist\, he has received the David Cohen Prize for Literature\, served as Laureate for Irish Fiction (2022–2024)\, and was Chancellor of the University of Liverpool until 2017. \nHe will be joined by Frank Shovlin\, Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and an acclaimed critic and editor. Shovlin is renowned for his scholarship on James Joyce and John McGahern\, including The Letters of John McGahern (Faber & Faber) and the forthcoming biography John McGahern: A Writing Life.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-an-evening-with-colm-toibin/
LOCATION:The Black-E\, The Black-E\, 1 Great George Street\, Liverpool\, L1 5EW
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260611
DTSTAMP:20260417T214100
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: "American Shorts"
DESCRIPTION:CFP: “American Shorts” University of Lisbon\, Portugal\, October 29-31\, 2026
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/deadline-cfp-american-shorts/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260613
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SUMMARY:Conference: 8th Annual ENSFR Conference at the University of Artois
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are excited to announce a Save The Date for the 8th Annual ENSFR Conference. The conference will be held at the University of Artois (Northern France) on the 10-12th of June 2026. The title of the conference is: “In Different Shapes: the short story and its modes of circulation in magazines and newspapers.” \nFollowing the ideas initiated at the Leuven conference in 2017 on the short story\, its contexts and co-texts\, the 2026 ENSFR conference will be devoted to short forms appearing in magazines and newspapers. \nThe conference will consider any story printed in such media but also stories that were solely published in magazines and newspapers (as opposed to stories that were later collected in book form)\, adapted into film or into longer works of fiction (as is often the case with The New Yorker). Panelists may also work on any short form to be found in magazines (commercials\, letters to the editor\, notes…) as well as illustrated stories—the illustrations providing yet another short story from to explore. \nCertain magazines target a specific audience\, and it could be stimulating to reflect upon writers’ ability to please (at least on the surface) literary editors. In the nineteenth century\, stories were often referred to as “articles\,” “tales” or “sketches”—how does this influence our understanding of the text? What are the differences between stories printed in magazines and those printed in newspapers? \nThe conference will give us an opportunity to discuss magazine publication with several authors and see how magazine and newspaper publication has evolved since its earliest forms.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/8th-annual-ensfr-conference-at-the-university-of-artois/
LOCATION:University of Artois\, Arras\, France
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English
DESCRIPTION:JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) \nGuest edited by: \n\nFrançoise Buisson\,Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour\nSolveig M. Dunkel\, Université de Lille\nFrédérique Spill\, Université de Picardie Jules Verne\, president of the William Faulkner Society.\n\n\nDeadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 \n\n\nSuggested Proposals\nThe purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced by Faulkner as a short story writer\, especially—but not exclusively: \n\nthe status of the short story in Faulkner’s work and its reception\neconomic imperatives and consumerism\nexperimentation and short fiction as “a creative writing workshop”\nFaulkner’s play with the traditional forms\, conventions and contents of the genre: narrative technique\, stylistic devices and strategies\, punctuation and typography\nFaulkner’s phenomenological writing\, his writing of sensation\nellipsis and the unspeakable; condensation and proliferation\nFaulkner’s use of different chronotopes and his handling of chronology\nmeta/short fiction and the mise en abyme of short story writing\nthe Southern Gothic\norality\, cock-and-bull stories and tall tales\, short fiction and humor\, Frontier humor\nthe ecopoetic dimension in wilderness short stories\ninitiation in the short story and for the short story teller\nchildhood and children as story-tellers and/or characters\nmargins in the short story: the community and the individual; race and gender relations for example\nqueer Faulkner
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-william-faulkner-in-journal-of-the-short-story-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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