Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Witch’
‘What do we think of when we hear the word ‘witch’? We think of someone dark and evil, someone to be feared…’ EVER DUNDAS takes a look at Shirley Jackson’s controversial short story ‘The Witch’.
Is There a Place Like Home?
MOA LINDUNGER explores the themes of home and cultural identity in the short stories of Adnan Mahmutovic: ‘What we find in this collection, is a myriad of stories of home in which its smells, textures and people are mythologised and romanticised, at times in absurdum – generally known as nostalgia…’
New Writers With Their Sights Set on Fame
CAROLE BUCHAN introduces us to the winners of this year’s Asham Award…
Coming in to Land by Robert Shearman
SHORT STORY: We are thrilled to bring you ‘Coming in to Land’, from award-winning author ROBERT SHEARMAN. ‘Ladies and gentlemen – We hope that you have taken pleasure in this Air Intercontinental Flight from Los Angeles to Paris, France…’
The Deceptively Small Boxes of Robert Shearman
In her essay, LELA TREDWELL takes us through the works of fantastic author Robert Shearman: ‘Shearman’s short stories are often dark and mostly rather devious. He thrills consistently by exploring a whole host of surreal scenarios abetted by his roguish sense of humour…’
Forget Show and Tell
In this exercise, which brings the action of your stories to life, LYNDA NASH tells us to forget Show and Tell and banish the ‘rules’ to Writing Room 101: ‘That old adage ‘show don’t tell’ is the bane of many a beginner writer’s life…’
Boys
NEELIMA VINOD introduces us to ‘Boys’, a short story by Rick Moody: ‘it makes the experience of twin boys growing up so tactile that you can almost feel them jump off the page and enter your life…’
Three Minutes of an Hour
In his essay, STEPHEN DEVEREUX introduces us to the lesser known short stories of Kate Chopin: ‘As she developed her art, her writing increasingly reflected her interest in the situation of women, particularly within marriage…’
Remembering James Herbert
‘On Wednesday 20th March 2013, I lost a friend. I’d never met him but he’d made me laugh, cry, be fearful and shocked. He had been with me as I hid under the covers in my childhood, and opened a door into the world of horror stories.’ KATE MURRAY remembers the short stories of James Herbert.
William Trevor: a Lifetime’s Excellence in Short Fiction
We are thrilled to announce that WILLIAM TREVOR is the recipient of the inaugural Charleston-Chichester Award for a Lifetime’s Excellence in Short Fiction.