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The European Network for Short Fiction Research was established in 2013 with the aim of fostering and promoting the study of short fiction in European universities and in interaction with short fiction writers. After an inaugural meeting early in 2014, the ENSFR has organized annual conferences as well as sponsored several other study days and events. This website aims to be an interactive platform for sharing research, expertise, ideas and information about short fiction in its diversity of linguistic traditions and forms.

12 June 201318 April 2017

13th International Conference on the Short Story in English

The 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English, (15*)16 to 19 July, 2014, Vienna, Austria.

Theme: Unbraiding the Short Story

This conference will bring writers of fiction in English (Irish, British, American, Canadian, Australian, Caribbean, South-African, Indian, Sri Lankan, Indonesian, etc.) and writers who have had (or will have for this event) their work translated into English together with scholars of the short story, and all will join in reading sessions, roundtable discussions and panels, and translation workshops.

2 April 201318 April 2017

ENSFR

The European Network for Short Fiction Research was created as a joint initiative of researchers at Edge Hill University (U.K.) and the CRILA research group (UPRES EA 4639), Université d’Angers, France. Our broad aim is to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers, and to stimulate further research, both theoretical and practice-based.

The European Network for Short Fiction Research was created as a joint initiative of researchers at Edge Hill University (U.K.), the Université d’Angers (France) and the University of Leuven (Belgium). We have now been joined by many other colleagues from all over Europe. Our broad aim is to foster and promote research on short fiction across different countries and institutions.

We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research. We hold annual conferences on short fiction, hosted in different universities across Europe, and we facilitate and support many other conferences, workshops and seminars in the broad field of short fiction studies.

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6 Jan

Happy new year from the ENSFR! 2025 is an important year for us as it marks the 10-year anniversary of our first ever conference. You can read more about it here:

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18 Dec

The latest issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English @The_JSSE is out!

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4 Dec

Another CFP for a special issue on the Canadian short story!

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3 Dec

CFP: The 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield’s writings. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1st February! More here:

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30 Nov

CFP for a proposed special issue Orbit: Journal of American Literature, entitled "Thomas Pynchon in Eastern Europe". The issue will be co-edited by Sergej Macura and Molnár Gábor Tamás. More info at the link below:

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