The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has defended the inclusion of a question on short stories that sparked controversy in the Junior Cycle English paper on the basis that it was “fully ...

LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — A St Vincent and the Grenadines national has won the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary honours. The Commonwealth ...

English teachers have criticised the inclusion of an “unwise and unfair” short story question that appeared on this year’s Junior Cycle exam paper this week. Many students reported their ...

Sutherland, a former CBC short story prize-winner, describes how she ‘took a risk’ with ‘Descend’—‘its shape, its voices—because I believed every enslaved person deserves to have ...

Six months after Samantha Harvey won the Booker, online magazine Fictionable has published a pamphlet edition of her short story about the potential for deathbed-based love and redemption.

Chanel won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize and received the 2022 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship. CBC Books named her one of 30 Writers to Watch in 2022.

I believe writers and storytellers have a responsibility to throw light on the universal truths that unite us — and that stories are the ultimate way of acknowledging the humanity of others.

Canadian Vincentian writer Chanel Sutherland has won the £5,000 (approx. $9,329 Cdn) Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize annually recognizes the best piece of ...

Seven years have passed since the three-time National Book Award-nominated author Lauren Groff last published a short story collection: the beloved, Story Prize-winning Florida.

After the overwhelming success of “ BoJack Horseman,” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg returns with “ Long Story Short,” a sitcom animated series centered on a Jewish family from Northern ...

Tiang met the Chinese “Dongbei” writer through Shuang’s wife Zhang Yueran, whom Tiang also translates. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.