Scratch A4 is a bi-annual Short Story competition for To enter our competition to read your story at Scratch A4, complete these two simple steps… 1) Buy this Contestant Entry ticket. You will receive a Confirmation email. 2) Forward this Confirmation email – attaching your Scratch A4 Winter ’26 will be held in London on…
| Blurred Edges| Ballerini Book Press| Luzern Switzerland 2026| £13.00 First-person narration is not exclusively associated with the short story but it is probably the form where it came into its own, allowing the writer to experiment with notions of the self, perception and reliability. All twelve of the stories in this fine collection feature…
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 experienced only in passing. ‘Dos cervezas,’ says one of his two central…
Richard Brautigan is most famous for his iconic novel Trout Fishing in America (1967), but he was also a prolific short story writer and poet. Whether you are a hardcore Brautigan fan, or you have never heard of him, this episode is for you! Chris Gair is the director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, Senior…
Event: Flash in Translation Workshop Series May 2026 The 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…