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 and France – were invited…
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 other colleagues from all over…
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 all over Europe. Our broad…
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 by staff of Arka, and…
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 written form, YouTube launched its…