From the competition website: Scratch A4 is a bi-annual Short Story competition for <1000 word stories. The six shortlisted writers are invited to read their stories at the amazing Scratch A4 final. Submissions are opening in September for Scratch A4 Winter '26! The window runs from September 12 until midnight, 24th October. Enter...
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...
JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) Guest edited by: Françoise Buisson,Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour Solveig M. Dunkel, Université de Lille Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, president of the William Faulkner Society. Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 Suggested Proposals The purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced...
From the competition website: Chance of winning up to £2000 in the short story and poetry main prizes. Separate short story and poetry prize winning categories for those aged 17-25 and for local Bedford residents. Enter here.
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...