THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

This is certainly not a magic formula. What I describe above is what works for me. Taking the time to chart your course before diving into the short story allows every word to be written with purpose.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Writing a Short Story: A Talk with Deborah Eisenberg. By Rachael Brown. April 14, 2010. Share. Save >< Picador. When I begin to read a short story, it is usually with certain reluctance.

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...

Shelley Jackson Is Writing a Short Story in the Snow, and It’s Lovely. Sign In Sign Up. Brow Beat has moved! You can find new stories here. Slate. Brow Beat. Slate's Culture Blog.

Creative Writing student wins short story writing contest. Kaitlin Mikrut. By Rohit Jammu, Assistant Features Editor November 19, 2020. As events and programs were cut or altered dramatically to ...

I also want to get into writing novels the way I write short stories, which is to finish one, put it away, take one out, start another one. And so that would be really hard if you're writing 350 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, marking only the second time a science fiction writer has been honored since the ...

Saeed Teebi's story Her First Palestinian was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize. He's now a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.