Scratch Books are now open to submissions for the Scratch A4 1000 word short story competition until 25th April. Send us your rich, exhilarating and brilliant short works! Entry is only £4. The judges are: Gurnaik Johal – Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year…
What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? Andrea Marzocchi discusses these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of English at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of Writing Through Writer’s Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction,…
In this episode Paul March-Russell, discusses the importance of women writers in science fiction and the legacy of the short story collection Women of Wonder (1974) edited by Pamela Sargent. Paul is the outgoing editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, the co-founder of Gold SF, an intersectional feminist science fiction imprint of…
Dear Members, Please find information below on Aleix Tura Vecino’s new book published by Routledge. Hundreds of anthologies of women’s short stories have appeared in the literary market between the 1970s and now. This publishing and cultural phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book, which argues that, during this period, anthologies have…
Founding Member of the European Network for Short Fiction Research and Editor of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Ailsa Cox, has produced her own Personal Anthology of the short fiction that has helped shape her life as an academic, writer, and reader. A Personal Anthology is curated by Jonathan Gibbs, author of the novels…