Welcome!
The European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) fosters, promotes, and encourages the study and writing of short fiction across different countries and institutions. It welcomes academics, postgraduates, writers, publishers, independent scholars, readers, and all those engaged in short story writing and research.
This website is the hub of the ENSFR community and a resource for all short story enthusiasts, with information on events, annual conferences, calls for papers, publications, short story contests, reading and writing groups, and members.
Our writers have earned recognition from some of the most prestigious literary awards and anthologies, including the Best British Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Frank O’Connor Award, the Seán O’Faoláin International Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the Edge Hill Prize, the V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, and the BBC Short Story Award.
The ENSFR is also associated with The Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la nouvelle (Presse Universitaire de Rennes) and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Intellect Press).
