Short story collections offer the perfect medium for fiction writers to craft compelling, affecting narratives that simply may not warrant a full-length novel to explore the ideas. The short story ...

Gallant is the genius absurdist of the 20th century. Conditions were overripe for absurdism. Born in Montreal, Gallant was ...

Samatha Adhyayana Kendra, Mysuru, has organised a State-level Short Story and Poetry Writing Contest in memory of its Founder-President, late writer Dr. Vijaya Dabbe for which it has invited entries ...

He was best known for a short pen name, “O. Henry.” The man behind the stories, William Sydney Porter, was a complicated ...

B. Pladek's speculative tale about the dark future of education, 'Teach Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness,' appears on io9 ...

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction ...