The Short Form
photo by David Pattern DISCUSSION: THE SHORT FORM 'The Short Form' features discuss aspects that are relevant to the experience of reading or writing short stories, or attending short story...
A Siberian Winter
We recommend The Inland Sea, a wonderfully wintry short story from K. J. Orr: ‘a truly epic tale of adventure, extreme winter weather and the bonds of brotherhood…’
David Vann – March 2011
David Vann is the prize-winning author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island. His short stories have been published in Atlantic Monthly, Writer’s Digest, and The Sunday Times, and his work...
Tania Hershman – February 2011
Tania Hershman is the prize-winning story writer, competition judge and editor of the online journal The Short Review. Three of Tania’s stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and many others have...
Favourite Stories for World Book Day
In celebration of World Book Day, our contributors give us a taste of their favourite stories. Readers are invited to leave a comment, telling us about their own favourites in 5 lines or less.
Adam Marek – October 2010
Since 2003, when his story ‘The 40-Litre Monkey’ was chosen as a supplementary winner in the Bridport Prize, Adam Marek has gained a reputation as being one of the UK’s best young...
Bridport Prize Winners Announced
Congratulations go out to the winners of this year’s Bridport Short Story Prize, Alison Fisher, Wayne Price and Kirsty Logan. The Bridport Competition, which bills itself as ‘the richest open prize,’ with a total prize fund of £14,000, attracted almost 15,000 entries this year in three categories: short stories, flash fiction and poetry.
We Recommend
FEATURES: WE RECOMMEND 'We Recommend' features are personal recommendations of a story collection, an anthology, a group of short stories, or a single short story. They are written in the...
Hemingway’s Secret
Shortlisted in the 2018 Feature Writing Competition PETER JORDAN examines the influence of dyslexia and the paintings of Cezanne on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway: ‘The defining qualities of Hemingway’s minimalist writing — short sentences, short paragraphs, the short concrete word over its longer equivalent, mistrust of subordinate clauses, omission, and suggestion — here perfectly characterise dyslexic writing…’
Love And Poison: ‘Allergy’ by Elspeth Davie
STEPHEN HARGADON finds subtlety, power and wit behind the familiar scenery in Elspeth Davie’s short story ‘Allergy’: ‘…there is a richness here, a resonance, an ability, keen and tender, to look at the world from odd angles, to see the extraordinary, the mystical, in the daily churn of human commerce…’