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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 events, workshops or classes. This section also includes several features from editors and academics, who discuss their involvement with the form.
THE SHORT FORM ARCHIVE…
Abstraction and Detail in Very Short Fiction – Seán Padraic Birnie
All Bone and Muscle — Bidisha
Are Writing Courses Worth It? — Gabrielle Kimm
The Art of Researching – Professor Vasilis Papageorgiou
Baby Shoes — Chloe Dalton
Beautiful Blasts — Alison MacLeod
The Beginning of the Short Story in England – Charles E. May
The Best British Short Stories — Nicholas Royle
Close Up and Urgent — Joanna Trollope
The Consequences of National Short Story Week
Contessas and Composers – Amanda Oosthuizen
Crossing Boundaries: Poetry and the Short Story – K J Orr
A Day Out at the Bristol Literature Festival — Pauline Masurel
Decision Time – Erinna Mettler
Fairy Tales and Thomas Hardy – Christine Genovese
Favourite Stories for World Book Day
Finding Short Stories Within a Novel — Ruba Abughaida
The First London Short Story Festival – Paul McVeigh
Flash Fiction Day — Calum Kerr
Flash Fiction: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places? — Steve Wasserman
In Your Dreams (the role of women in George Saunders’ Tenth of December) – Juliet West
It Takes Longer to Write Than to Read — Nik Perring
Join the Ether Revolution — Bea Moyes
Just a Few Words on Flash Fiction — Carolyn Thomas
Listen and Be Heard — G.F. Phillips
Little Fictions, Big Questions — Ursula Hurley
Live to Write… Love to Read – Neil Hargreaves
Love Story — Cathy Galvin
Making Paper Shadows — Wena Poon
Manchester Fiction Prize, Closing Remarks — Nicholas Royle
Musical Fictions — Jonathan Taylor
National Flash-Fiction Day — Pauline Masurel
The New Puritan Generation – José Francisco Fernández
Old and New Views in the Short Story — Mike Smith
Play Scale — Charles Davis
Polly Samson’s Introduction to The Doll
The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays — Paul March-Russell
Praiseworthy or Just Pointless? — Nicholas Royle
‘Quirkiness’ in Ali Smith’s Stories – Tracy Maylath
Rattle Tales — Live Lit in Brighton – Erinna Mettler
Reading Short Stories — Mike Smith
Reading the Short Story — Charles E. May
Redrafting — Loree Westron
Reviewing Short Stories – Pauline Masurel
Robert Louis Stevenson Day — Bill Gray
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice — Ailsa Cox
The Short Story Festival 2015 – Victoria Heath
The Short Story is Dead! Long Live the Short Story! – Chris Power
The Stories of Objects – Sophia Kier-Byfield
Small Wonder 2011 — Katherine Orr
The Spider and the Fly — John Saunders
Stories in Performance: A New Genre — Jonathan Taylor
Stories Inspired by the Brontës – A. J. Ashworth
Stories on the Big Screen – Mike Smith
Stories Taking Flight – Jane Feaver
Ten Ways of Looking at the Short Story in 2012 – Steve Wasserman
Theory Put to Practice — Mike Smith
Three Stories About Love – Rajat Chaudhuri
The Tweeters Recommend — Vicki Heath
The Two Mrs Foxes – Erinna Mettler
Ugly/Beautiful – Nafisa Muhtadi
Voices of Impoverishment – G. F. Phillips
The Weird Tale – Gary Budden
What I Want as a Reader, Discovered via Keret — Angela Readman
Whose Culture? Whose Anarchy? — Paul March-Russell
The Wonders of the Small Wonder Short Story Festival — Alison MacLeod
The Writer’s Time — Hanif Kureishi