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.
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...
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...
Special Issue | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors Guest edited by Elsa Court (University of Oxford), Nina Ellis (The American University in Cairo), and Sonya Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University). In ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Ernest Hemingway uses a Spanish expression to insinuate the linguistic reality of a geographic location that is...
How can short forms help us respond to the challenges of a globalised Europe? Join researchers and educators from the six partner universities of the Erasmus+ project Short Forms Beyond Borders (SFBB) for a retrospective roundtable on Tuesday December 1st, at 6:30pm(GMT) / 7:30(CET). Panelists will look back at the project’s founding ambitions, assess key...