Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 15.1 & 2 out now.

This double issue of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is the second of two issues on the theme of Landscape and Temporality, guest edited by Paul Knowles, Ana Garcia Soriano and Madeleine Sinclair. It features articles drawn from the ENSFR conference held in Manchester, covering authors including Karen Russell, Andres Barba, Daphne du Maurier, Andre Gide and  Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay as well as creative-critical contributions by Ines G. Labarta, Jennifer Cavanagh and A.J. Ashworth. Paul March-Russell’s ‘Anthropocene feminism and the Weird temporalities of landscape’ focuses on work by Zoe Gilbert, Sarah Hall, Daisy Johnson and Lucy Wood. Plus ‘”Guerilla academics”: An interview with Ailsa Cox, Michelle Ryan and Elke D’hoker, founders of the European Network for Short Fiction Research’ by Laura Gallon and the latest book reviews.

 

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9.2 and call for papers.

Vol. 9.2. of the peer-reviewed journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is out now with articles on A.M. Homes, Thomas Harris, Lydia Davies, Samuel Beckett, Carson McCullers, Anton Chekhov and more. Plus Jonathan Crane reflects on realism in his own fiction. Robert M. Luscher on the American short story cycle, Felicity Skelton on Canadian fiction and Sarah Whitehead on Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture; and Ailsa Cox interviews Lucy Wood, the Cornish-based author of Diving Belles and The Sing  of the Shore.

We welcome submissions of articles, book reviews, interviews, reports and translations on any aspect of short-story writing.  For more information contact Ailsa Cox at coxa@edgehill.ac.uk.