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 ...

Here’s What We Know! Discover how George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones began as a simple short story before it redefined the fantasy genre. Read on to know more!

Winners of the Star’s 47th annual Short Story Contest were announced Tuesday night, with Jessica Wareing’s “Heaven Without” placing first. Updated April 15, 2025 at 10:48 p.m. April 15, 2025 ...

The four-chapter template—Introduction and Conflict, Rising Challenges, Twist and Lowest Point, and Epiphany and Resolution—provides a structured framework for crafting compelling short stories.

Judging this story as I’d judge a short story published in The Stinging Fly or the Winter Papers is the wrong approach to take. Reading AI-generated stories demands a new type of literacy ...

I also discuss how skipping storyboards during my short film, "It's About Time," created unnecessary stress, especially when unexpected challenges, like rain, threw our plans into disarray.

We typically put fiction into one of two categories: It’s either a short story, or it’s a novel. But there is another variation that lands somewhere in between the two. Yes, the novella. What ...

RTÉ has announced details of the ten new stories which have been shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024. Set up in 1986 to honour writer and broadcaster Francis MacManus, the RTÉ ...

KS3 creative writing resources Storyboard templates Whether it’s short stories, comic strips or filmmaking, every tale needs the right structure to be told well. Having a beginning, middle and end may ...

But intentionally reading more short stories made me realize that I’d underestimated the form. These works aren’t just compressed novels: They offer an entirely different experience.