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SUMMARY:Event: Sara Baume & Emily LaBarge discuss Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it\, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common love of nature and a commitment to their respective artistic practices\, they began to meet regularly\, to talk\, to eat and to swim. What would it be like\, Baume wondered\, to write a book in the style of Mollie’s painting? Opening Night is the result. She will be in conversation with Emily LaBarge\, author of Dog Days.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-sara-baume-emily-labarge-discuss-opening-night/
LOCATION:London Review Bookshop\, 14 Bury Pl\, London\, WC1A 2JL
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SUMMARY:Event: Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway at Bàrd Books
DESCRIPTION:Join author Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway with Barry Pierce to discuss their new books \n\n\n\n\nDoors 630pm\, event start 7pm prompt \nBEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025)\, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize. \n“Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary life” LUKE KENNARD \nSail Away Land is the space where we might go when we’re no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection\, the characters go ‘there’ with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing – just like they hadn’t really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase. \nThese stories are about normal things – losing the people we’re closest to\, forgiving them\, finding love and managing to hold onto it – but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague’s head\, housebreaking in search of a sister’s ghost\, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight. \nLike brilliant and strange anxiety dreams in prose\, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness\, life and non-being\, psychological acuity\, imagination and wit\, all while being effortlessly\, seductively readable and incredibly moving. \n“Moving deftly between corporate weirdness\, the anxiety of rejection\, and the warm haze of childhood memory\, Sail Away Land is just how I like my short story collections: playful and particular. I feel lucky to have read it.” SABA SAMS \nKeith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His novels include A Shock\, which won the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Goldsmith’s Prize; Hawthorn & Child; and Animals. His first novel The Long Falling was filmed by Martin Provost as Où Va La Nuit in 2011. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger\, the O Henry award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Dooneen is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and by New Directions. \nThe astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the Great Dublin Novel for the 21st century \nBartholomew Port\, known to all as Mew\, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that—there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation\, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song\, with rumor\, with tunnels\, with ghosts\, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air\, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie\, back home in London. \nAn unraveling\, an impossibility\, a gathering of voices\, and a single dream\, Dooneen is the layered\, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway\, “one of Ireland’s best writers\, in a country with no shortage of them” (The Times).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ben-pester-and-keith-ridgway-at-bard-books/
LOCATION:Bàrd Books\, 341-343 Roman Road\, London\, E3 5QR
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SUMMARY:Event: I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Gaskell’s House marked the 10th anniversary of its restoration and opening to the public with a bold new exhibition called I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell\, as part of a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.\nThree young writers – Georgia Affonso\, Princess Arinola Adegbite and Guruleen Kahlo – were awarded inaugural writers’ residencies at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House\, Manchester’s only literary house\, and it is their endeavours that take centre stage. \nThey began their journey having never read Elizabeth’s work\, but by spending time at the house they have been immersed in her writing and role as a social reformist. Through their eyes visitors will also be able to discover just how much there is to the inspiring world of Elizabeth Gaskell. \nCreated in partnership with The Writing Squad and Manchester City of Literature. Please check the library opening times before planning your visit.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ive-never-read-elizabeth-gaskell-exhibition/
LOCATION:Rochdale Central Library\, Rochdale Central Library\, Number One Riverside\, Smith Street\, Rochdale\, OL16 1XU
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SUMMARY:Event: ENSFR reading group\, June meeting
DESCRIPTION:The next short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 1st June 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 Julie-Ann’s reading suggestion: the short story “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood. You can access the short story from this link: \nhttps://223141929335512656.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/0/9/17093284/deathbylandscape_atwood.pdf \nOur conversation will focus on the following discussion points that Julie-Ann has selected: \n\nThe story opens in a domestic interior but moves to a landscape of ‘wilderness’. How are these two contrasting spaces integral to the story?\nIs there a power dynamic in the friendship between Lois and Lucy?\nWhat is significant about the presentation of the camp and the language Atwood uses?\nDoes this story fit the category of bildungsroman?\nHow does Atwood explore ideas of colonisation?\nIn the following quote bodily absence is made significant. How does this idea relate to the wider societal conceptualisation of the female body through art\, culture and mass media? How are female bodies represented elsewhere in the story?\n\n“But a dead person is a body; a body occupies space\, it exists somewhere. You can see it; you put it in a box and bury it in the ground\, and then it’s in a box in the ground. But Lucy is not in a box or in the ground. Because she is nowhere definite\, she could be any where.” \n\nStructurally the story moves from present to past to present\, using character memory to explicate the main story. How does ‘framing’ the past within the present impact ideas and meanings?\nThe story ends with a mystery? Is the reader invited to play detective?\n\nThose who are interested in exploring the work further might want to read Atwood’s collection Wilderness Tips which also features “Death by Landscape”. Many of the other short stories in the collection are worth reading in conjunction\, particularly “True Trash”. This is a recommendation by Julie-Ann. It is not mandatory to read further short stories for the meeting. \n— \nInes Gstrein is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic:  Short Fiction Reading Group – June 2026 \nTime: Jun 1\, 2026 05:00 PM London \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85116499205?pwd=hx6KiEeoOcdhPibo4Egw3770UQhger.1
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ensfr-reading-group-june-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260531T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260531T203000
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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;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260520T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260520T203000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260519T180000
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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/
LOCATION:Teams
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260508T180000
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SUMMARY:Event: Flash in Translation Workshop Series May 2026
DESCRIPTION:Event: Flash in Translation Workshop Series May 2026 \nThe ENSFR and PesText International Literary and Cultural Festival jointly organise a workshop series over the week of May 4\, 2026. The event brings together student and more experienced writers from Poland\, Slovakia\, the Czech Republic\, Hungary\, the UK and Austria. In preparation for the event\, participants wrote a piece of flash fiction about “City and Nature” and will continue to work on their texts in groups during the workshop days. \nThree online workshops are open to the interested public: \n• Reading and Development Workshop on May 6: 11 am CET / 10 am UK time\no Participants share and discuss their work\no Writer’s Reading \n• Development and Translation Workshop on May 7: 12 pm CET / 11 am UK time\no Continues the previous workshop with a focus on translation Development Of Writer’s Ideas with Actors \n• Open Performance Workshop on May 8: 4 pm CET / 3 pm UK Time\no Short performances and improvisations based on the flash fiction submissions\no Performances of Writer’s work \nWe are very much looking forward to seeing some of you there!
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-flash-in-translation-workshop-series-may-2026/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260420T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260420T183000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260413T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260413T170000
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SUMMARY:Event: Haunted Book Club Live\, The Old Nurse's Tale
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £15 General / £10 low income / under 21 plus eventbrite fee – book here. \nFor enjoyers of eerie tales\, curious to know more about the stories that make their skin crawl. Join Norton’s Narrator Gav Cross and author John Reppion as they delve into the stories behind some of your favourite spine-tingling tales. Whether you’re a seasoned ghost story expert or a newcomer to the realm of creepy fiction\, Haunted Book Club welcomes all new members with open (and possibly skeletal) arms. \nSit in the midst of this historic library\, once frequented by Elizabeth Gaskell\, and listen to her short story The Old Nurse’s Tale. How do things and buildings can retain memories of anguished people and tragic events. Who or what is haunted the maid and little girl? \nJoin in the conversation or sit quietly in the dark. Whatever you choose. Keep glancing over your shoulder… \nHaunted Book Club brings its first Live event to the Portico Library\, a continuation of their bi-weekly live online podcast: \nhttps://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub \n12+ Suggested 90 mins plus an interval.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-haunted-book-club-live-the-old-nurses-tale/
LOCATION:The Portico Library\, 57 Mosley Street\, Manchester\, M2 3HY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260309T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260309T183000
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SUMMARY:Event: ENSFR reading group\, March meeting
DESCRIPTION:The next short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 9th March 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 Paul’s reading suggestion: the short story “The Pain Cave” by Lauren Groff. It is a very short story at just two pages long. You can access the short story from this link: https://granta.com/the-pain-cave/ \nOur conversation will focus on the following key questions that Paul has selected: \n\nHow does the story portray family relationships\, and what ideas about family life emerge through the narrator’s reflections?\nWhat picture of childhood does the story create\, and how does the narrator’s view of children shape the emotional tone of the narrative?\nIn what ways does the story use nature—its beauty\, harshness\, or indifference—to deepen its themes or challenge the narrator?\nWhat meanings do you think Groff intended by choosing the title “The Pain Cave\,” and how does it resonate with both the physical and emotional journey in the story?\nDoes the narrator strike you as someone who understands herself clearly\, or do you sense blind spots or contradictions in her self‑perception? What moments in the story shaped your view?\n\nJoin the Zoom here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83325132386?pwd=pccLzay1p6eLKg9PxP5C2HRJwqFLz6.1
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ensfr-reading-group-march-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260305T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260308T170000
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SUMMARY:Event: Aldeburgh Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Aldeburgh Literary Festival was started in 2002 by John and Mary James of The Aldeburgh Bookshop. It has featured an extraordinary variety of talks\, from the local to the global\, the serious to the hilarious\, the scientific to the philosophical. The Festival is proud to be located in Aldeburgh at the Jubilee Hall and we are delighted that our audience fills the streets of Aldeburgh with visitors and conversation in a winter weekend.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-aldeburgh-literary-festival/
LOCATION:Jubilee Hall\, Crabbe Street\, Aldeburgh\, Ipswich\, IP15 5BN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227
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SUMMARY:Event: Next Generation Short Story Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Short Story Awards is a not-for-profit awards program open to authors writing original unpublished short stories (5\,000 words or less per story) in English. Brought to you by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA) and Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (IBPPG)\, the 2026 Next Generation Short Story Awards offers 30+ categories\, and is open to all authors\, even first-time authors\, in the U.S.\, Canada or internationally. \nThe top short stories will be considered for a cash prize\, gold medal\, complimentary invitation to attend the annual NGIBA awards gala where you will be recognized if your story is a Grand Prize Winner\, literary exposure\, inclusion in an annual anthology\, and recognition as one of the top short stories written this year! \nThe Next Generation Short Story Awards will honor and award 1 Winner and 3 Finalists in each of the 30+ categories and 3 Grand Prize Winners from all entries submitted this year. Winners and Finalists will receive the following: \nGrand Prize Winners: $500 cash prize for 1st plus a trophy; $300 cash prize for 2nd; $200 cash prize for 3rd. Plus all Grand Prize Winners will receive a gold medal\, complimentary invitation to attend the NGIBA awards gala\, story and author bio published in the Anthology of Winners along with a complimentary copy of the Anthology of Winners. \nWinners in each of 30+ Categories: $75 cash prize\, gold medal\, story and author bio published in the Anthology of Winners along with a complimentary copy of the Anthology of Winners. \nFinalists: Story title and author name mentioned in the Anthology of Winners along with the Anthology of Winners available to purchase at half price. Beginning with the 2026 awards year\, Finalists will be able to order medals. \nOther Benefits: Exposure for a full year as a Winner or Finalist on the Next Generation Short Story Awards website\, social media coverage\, complimentary Winner or Finalist gold award sticker image to display on writers’ social media\, potential literary acknowledgements and accolades. \nThe entry deadline date for the 2026 awards program is Thursday\, February 26\, 2026.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-next-generation-short-story-awards/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline,Event
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UID:3345-1771761600-1771768800@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: A look at Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we’ll explore the Irish Income for the Arts programme\, which has supported artists’ incomes and helped retain talent in the sector since 2022. The scheme has awarded a weekly payment of €325 for 2\,000 artists selected at random. With the pilot scheme ending in February 2026\, this will be an opportunity to explore how it works\, the impact it’s had on artist and the cultural scene in Ireland\, and to discuss what a similar scheme would look like in Wales.  \n\nThe panel will include a representative from the Basic Income for the Arts Research Team at the Irish Government; an Irish writer\, Elaine Garvey\, who is a recipient of the scheme; and a changemaker from Wales. More details to be announced soon.  \nLanguage: Welsh and English\, with simultaneous translation service 
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-a-look-at-irelands-basic-income-for-the-arts/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260126T183000
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UID:3305-1769446800-1769452200@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: ENSFR reading group\, January meeting
DESCRIPTION:This year’s first short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 26th January at 5pm (UK time). Below\, you can find information on how to join the online meeting room. \nDuring the meeting\, we will be discussing Paul’s reading suggestion: the short story “Butterflies” by Samanta Schweblin. It is a very short story at just a page long. You can access the short story\, as well as a five-minute video of the reading of the story\, from the links below: \nSamanta Schweblin: Butterflies – Bookanista \nReading of Butterflies Video \nOur conversation will focus on the following key questions that Paul has selected: \nQ1) To what extent does the brevity of the story heighten the protagonist’s emotional intensity at the ending? \nQ2) What symbolic role do the butterflies play within the narrative? \nQ3) In what ways does the story construct or critique masculinity? \nQ4) How is parenthood depicted\, and what tensions or expectations surround it in the story? \nQ5) How is Nature represented\, and what thematic significance does it carry? \nQ6) Does the story align more closely with gothic fiction\, ecological writing\, or family drama—or does it deliberately blend multiple genres? What might this hybridity suggest about the expressive power and intensity of the short story form? \nJoin the zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86043265746?pwd=900rbjzbcMrfkwKts7nKjf1Bdzljtq.1
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ensfr-reading-group-january-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260121T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260706T100329
CREATED:20260116T112250Z
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UID:3278-1769022000-1769025600@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: Online Talk\, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Short Stories – An Introduction
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin popular speaker Elizabeth Williams for this intriguing introduction to a different side of Elizabeth Gaskell’s story-telling. \nBetter known for her classic novels\, Elizabeth Gaskell was a prolific writer of short stories. Charles Dickens knew this and encouraged her to write for his literary magazine. \nWorks like the much-loved Cranford started as short stories. Others\, like Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras and Lizzie Leigh\, drew on themes of female friendship\, industrialism and class relations that would later feature in novels such as Mary Barton or North and South. \nSo\, where did Elizabeth Gaskell get her ideas from? What inspired her to write in this format and why did she cover so many genres?
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-online-talk-elizabeth-gaskells-short-stories-an-introduction/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Gaskell House
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251117T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251117T190000
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CREATED:20251113T154645Z
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UID:3117-1763398800-1763406000@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: ENSFR Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The ENSFR Reading Group’s next meeting will take place on Monday 17th November at 5pm (UK time) on Zoom. We will be discussing the short story “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx. \nPlease email this address if you’re interested in joining and we will send you a Zoom link and more information: ensfrreadinggroup[at]gmail[dot]com
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ensfr-reading-group/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250625T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250625T203000
DTSTAMP:20260706T100329
CREATED:20250627T141718Z
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UID:2595-1750878000-1750883400@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: Irish Women Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Three of the most exciting contemporary voices on the Irish literary scene come together to discuss their bold and lyrical latest works with fellow writer Rachel Connolly. \nIrish Women Writers: Wendy Erskine\, Gráinne O’Hare\, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin \nWendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections\, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award\, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Award. She edited the art anthology\, well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer\, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. The Benefactors is her debut novel. \nGráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition\, the Bridport Prize\, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies\, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women’s life-writing. Thirst Trap is her first novel. \nNiamh Ní Mhaoileoin is a writer and communications officer who was the winner of the inaugural PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries Prize in 2022. Her debut literary novel is Ordinary Saints. \nThis event will be chaired by writer Rachel Connolly. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, New York Magazine\, The Guardian\, The FT Magazine and elsewhere and her first novel\, Lazy City\, was published in 2023 and won a Betty Trask Award.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/irish-women-writers-panel/
LOCATION:Foyles\, The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles\, 107 Charing Cross Road\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250612T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250612T203000
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UID:2592-1749754800-1749760200@ensfr.univ-angers.fr
SUMMARY:Event: Kathryn Scanlan in Conversation with Holly Pester
DESCRIPTION:Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy\, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town\, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited\, arranged\, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog. \nKathryn Scanlan is the author of The Dominant Animal and Kick the Latch. Originally from Iowa\, she lives in Los Angeles. \nHolly Pester is a poet and writer. She is the author of collection of poems\, Comic Timing\, and a novel\, The Lodgers. \nThe event will be followed by an audience Q&A.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/kathryn-scanlan-in-conversation-with-holly-pester/
LOCATION:Foyles\, The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles\, 107 Charing Cross Road\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event
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