In this study of short fiction, MORGAINE DAVIDSON takes a look at the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: ‘Sherlock Holmes was one of the first literary detectives in the world. These stories are the bedrock of crime fiction, and the form from which all others have grown…’
SHORT STORY MASTERCLASS podcast: Jane Rogers talks with K. J. Orr about writing science, story starting points, and hitting trees with sticks.
With just a week to go until Christmas, ERINNA METTLER introduces us to her traditional festive read, ‘Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story’ by Paul Auster.
KIRSTY WALTERS finds inspiration in Jambula Tree and Other Stories, an anthology of tales from the 2007 Caine Prize for African writing…
‘Aimee Bender is a writer who turns the ordinary into the extraordinary, and vice versa…’ In this Author Profile piece, DEBBIE KINSEY looks at the influences behind Aimee Bender’s writing life.
TRACY FELLS explores Kate Atkinson’s Not The End Of The World, a collection that, like all her novels, ‘resonates compassion and humanity’.
Our SHORT STORY MASTERCLASS PODCASTS are back. To begin the series, DAVID VANN talks with Steve Wasserman about Tarantino-like moments, first drafts, and the unbreakable rule of subtext…
In her essay, ALEX RUCZAJ looks at time travel in short fiction and how three contemporary authors shift from the present moment into the past…
‘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’.
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…’
