Out now, Vol. 12.1 of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice . This first of two special issues, guest-edited by Lucy Dawes Durneen, is dedicated to ‘The Health of the Short Story’. It includes articles, short fiction and reflective texts responding to that broad theme from many directions, including discussions of authors ranging from E. Nesbit to Diane Williams and Kristen Roupenian; and of themes including writing trauma, the maternal body, loneliness and grief. There’s also an in-conversation with the British writer Irenosen Okojie, book reviews, and an afterword from Kirsty Gunn.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.2: Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.2 special issue on Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, guest-edited by Christine Reynier, following the ENSFR conference at Montpellier in October 2019 is now available from Intellect Press. It also includes an interview with Sarah Hall, book reviews by Corinne Bigot and an interview with film-maker Eric Steel on his adaption of David Bezmozgis’ ‘Minyan’ .
ARTICLES
Editorial :’The power of short fiction as a humble genre’
CHRISTINE REYNIER
‘Humbling the human: Posthuman explorations in contemporary short fiction’
ELKE D’HOKER
‘The singular effect of brevity: Why Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” could not have been a novel’
LISA FEKLISTOVA
‘Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction’
ALDA CORREIA
‘Tourism, tourists, humility and the humble in E. M. Forster’s “The Story of the Siren” (1920)’
EMMANUEL VERNADAKIS
‘Humility and the humble: A reading of the Nepali short stories of Maheshbikram Shah’
KRITIKA CHETTRI
‘”The extremely private literary giant”: Alice Munro’s poetics of humility’
AILSA COX
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1 contains original fiction by Zoe Lambert on the theme of illness and caring, plus co-written fiction from Amy Lilwall and Rupert Loydell. There are articles on writers including Agatha Christie, Margot Lanagan, Flannery O’Connor and Patrick Gale, plus an unpublished short story by the British writer Carl Tighe, who recently died from Covid-19, accompanied by an appreciation by Elizabeth Baines. Paul March-Russell reviews Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story and Moy McCrory reviews Being Various, the anthology of new Irish Irish short stories edited by Lucy Caldwell. And you can find out about how oral ghost stories mingle the discourse of fact and fiction.
10.2, coming early in 2021, will be a special issue on Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, and will include an interview with Sarah Hall.
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.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 9.1
Latest issue of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice out now, with articles on Alice Munro, and Elizabeth Strout and new collaborative fiction from Rupert Loydell and Amy Lilwall. There is also an interview with Tessa Hadley and a review of new books on editing. Graham Mort’s story, ‘Emporium’ explores the short story as ‘humble’ fiction from a practice-based perspective, introducing the topic ahead of the forthcoming ENSFR conference on this topic.