Beautiful Blasts
ALISON MACLEOD shares her passion for short stories and passes on the advice she wishes she’d received when she first began writing.
Reading the Short Story – by Professor Charles E. May
‘A good short story cannot be skimmed, read quickly, or adequately summarized’: Professor CHARLES E. MAY argues that short stories need to be approached slowly and deliberately to be fully understood.
Acceptance Speech from Graham Mort
I’m sending this message from Kampala. Almost as soon as I arrived here, I received Penny Thomas’ message saying that I’d won the Edge Hill Prize for short fiction.
On winning the Fish International Short Story Competition
This year’s Fish Short Story Prize winner, MARY O’DONNELL considers the value of literary competitions and urges all to take the leap and enter our work.
Abstraction and Detail in Very Short Fictions
In his first THRESHOLDS post, SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE examines the shorter forms of short fiction and discovers ‘a kind of violent elegance’.