The Classics Book Club meets on the first Thursday of each month here at Hatchards, Piccadilly. This book club will instead take place one week ahead of schedule, on Thursday, 29th October. This month's book is: "Japanese Ghost Stories" by Lafcadio Hearn. The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men...
This ENSFR event brings together leading voices in contemporary short‑story scholarship. Chaired by Elke D’hoker, this session features Paul Delaney (Trinity College, Ireland) and Aleix Tura‑Vecino (University of Glasgow, UK), both of whom have recently published major studies on the short‑story anthology: Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling (Routledge 2025) and The Short...
The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) and the Transfopress Research Network are hosting a bilingual study day / journée d'étude in Paris, France (venue to be announced) on Friday, 2 April 2027, focusing on “The Short Story in the Transnational Press (XIX-XXI Centuries).” For over forty years the JSSE has been publishing research on the...