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  • November 2025

  • Sun 30
    November 30, 2025

    Competition Deadline: Fish Short Story Prize

    From the competition website:   Judge: Sean Lusk - Novelist and short story writer Word Limit: 5,000 Closes: 30 Nov '25 Results: 17 March '26 Anthology Published: July '26 Entry Fees: €24 / €16 subsequent entries....

  • December 2025

  • Sat 6
    December 6, 2025

    Competition Deadline: Chaotic Creators Magazine Short Story Contest

    From the competition website:   This competition is open to beginners, experts and anyone in between. The theme is romance. The winner will receive a £50 cash prize (subject to...

  • Tue 9
    December 9, 2025 @ 18 h 00 min - 19 h 30 min

    Event: Revisiting the ‘Save Our Short Story’ Campaign: A Retrospective Gathering

    Teams

    The ENSFR invites you to a special event commemorating the legacy of the Save Our Short Story campaign — a landmark movement that rallied writers, scholars, and readers in defence...

  • Mon 15
    December 15, 2025 @ 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min

    Event: Online Reading Group, 15th December 2025 at 5PM (UK time)

    Zoom

    The last short fiction reading group meeting before Christmas will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 15th December at 5pm (UK time). During the meeting, we will be discussing Ines' reading suggestion:...

  • Tue 16
    December 16, 2025

    Competition Deadline: Globe Soup Open Short Story Competition

    From the competition website:   Our 2024 Open Short Story Competition is open to writers of all genres and styles. Whether you write sci-fi, historical, horror, or anything else, we...

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  • Flash in Translation: Uncanny Objects15 Dec 2025
    On November 6, 2025, the ENSFR and PesText – International Literary and Cultural Festival hosted an online workshop on “Flash in Translation: Uncanny Objects”. The event was jointly organised by Robert Smid, Paul Knowles, Ines Gstrein and Ildikó Hepp. Eleven writers from four countries – Hungary, Austria, the United Kingdom...
  • Newsletter Issue 2 | 18 June 202524 Nov 2025
    ENSFR Newsletter A biannual update from the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) Issue 2 | 18 June 2025 Welcome The ENSFR was created as a joint initiative of researchers at Edge Hill University, the University of Angers and the University of Leuven. We’ve now been joined by many...
  • Newsletter Issue 1 | 12 December 202424 Nov 2025
    ENSFR Newsletter A quarterly update from the European Network for Short Fiction Research Issue 1 | 12 December 2024 Welcome The ENSFR was created as a joint initiative of researchers at Edge Hill University, Université d’Angers and the University of Leuven. We’ve now been joined by many other colleagues from...
  • Being Human Festival and ENSFR17 Nov 2025
    In collaboration with core members of the ENSFR team, Ed Hogan (Open University) delivered an event called ‘Writing Your Work’ on the premises of Arka Original Funerals, in Brighton, as part of the Being Human Festival [beinghumanfestival.org]. The event, which featured a number of bespoke writing activities, was attended exclusively...
  • CFP: “American Shorts” University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 29-31, 202630 Oct 2025
    The contemporary American short story lives in a context where ‘short’ has tended towards the increasingly economic. Alongside a renewed interest in flash fiction, the 21st century has witnessed an explosion in literary terse forms extending within the web of the digital age, such as twitterature and nano-fiction. Beyond the...
  • Journal of the Short Story in English no. 8421 Oct 2025
    G. Préher and C. Seltzer, editors of the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) / Les cahiers de la nouvelle, are pleased to announce the publication of number 84, a special issue on Joyce Carol Oats, guested edited by Tanya Tomble. It is available online and printed by the PUR.  

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