Not just Hemingway

16/11/2022

To make sure you'll permanently feel overwhelmed

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06/07/2022

https://lithub.com/9-short-story-collections-you-need-to-read-this-summer/
(If it’s summer on your continent now - sure it could be winter reads, too)

After the last few years, it’s safe to say all our attention spans have gotten a little short-circuited. But hey, there’s no season like the summer for distraction. (Ball! Pool! Squirre…

22/11/2021

Huma Qureshi’s debut collection sounds just the thing

In this first collection, sweetly domestic stories are complicated when characters confront hidden wounds

28/09/2021

TBR has just grown with 7 unread titles. How many have you read? Which would you recommend?

https://themillions.com/2021/06/ten-genre-bending-story-collections.html?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

My favorite short story collections are wild rides through time and space.

14/09/2021

Love it!

1. In late June, Martin’s wife dove off the dock behind their house and into the lake and never came up again. At the time, Martin was sitting on the patio, lazily reading. She walked past him, smi…

12/04/2021

Bursaries available for this remote/ online short story writing course
https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/creative-writing-introduction-short-story-writing-9

There are currently no places available on this course. Please register your interest and we will notify you if places become available.

12/02/2021

Just....wow.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/the-wind

“Mama, we need to drive, my mother said. We need to drive now. We need to go.”

13/10/2020

winter looming around the corner, Covid-19 not gone, this is the debut collection I'm hoping to read soon

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jenny-bhatt/each-of-us-killers/

A slim debut full of nuanced, cleareyed tales of unvarnished humanity.

17/08/2020

Two times Booker winner will focus on short stories, although they’re hard to write.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/16/dont-expect-any-more-historical-fiction-from-me-says-hilary-mantel

Writer tells Edinburgh festival audience she wants to focus on short stories and theatre

02/08/2020

Sharp as a razor

It was late, eleven o’clock, the end of a day in which Katrina had gotten nothing done, avoiding her studio in favor of the trifecta of time wasters

18/07/2020

Stay safe, keep reading short stories

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/18/short-and-sweet-the-best-stories-to-read-right-now

Thought-provoking, intense and consumed in one sitting, do short stories make for a perfect reading experience? Chris Power finds out, and shares the all-time greats

21/04/2020

Keep safe. And keep reading short stories

https://lithub.com/five-recent-story-collections-for-your-pandemic-reading/

In many months this list contains five novels—but never before has it consisted of five story collections. Given the global pandemic, its effects on economies, and everyone’s anxieties, some of us …

09/02/2020

Fan.

Do short stories get the short end of the stick when we talk about works of literature? Here's one reader on why the form deserves more praise.

12/12/2019

Staff and contributors recommend their favorite short fiction of the year

04/11/2019

TBR-alert
In Other Rooms other Wonders
short stories from Pakistan

23/10/2019

TBR alert!

short stories from Indonesia, and what's more, they are women-centric stories "filled with macabre twists of myths, horror and fairy tales".

14/10/2019

Dark and uncanny, an oldie, from Mexico. Read the short story here:

https://electricliterature.com/dont-bring-nightmares-to-the-breakfast-table/

“The Breakfast” by Amparo Dávila When Carmen came down to breakfast at the family’s usual hour of seven thirty, she hadn’t dressed yet, but was wrapped in her navy-blue bathrobe with her hair in disarray. This wasn’t all that caught the attention of her parents and her brother, though; it...

12/10/2019

Only now, as I prepare to write for the 20th birthday of this remarkable book, does it occur to me that I already celebrated its first ten years of life without knowing it. I did so when, in the fa…

07/10/2019

TBR Alert!

Short stories from Denmark, that promise to be precise, and skilful (and come with a recommendation of Junot Diaz, for what it's worth)

29/09/2019

Go on, read!!

One thing that's great about short stories is how quickly they can ruin your life. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this v...

24/09/2019

Dear short story lovers, bummed to admit that despite retrieving efforts, the website is down, lost, unreachable (as is the company who built and maintained it).

22/09/2019

TBR Alert!

read in translation - short stories from Korea
"The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships."

06/09/2019

TBR Alert!

from Mozambique

Published in the aftermath of Mozambique’s bloody civil war, Mia Couto’s third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach. Shifting masterfully between forms―creation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twist―these stories grapple with questions of what’s been lost and what can be reclaimed, what future exists for a country that broke the yoke of colonialism only to descend into internecine war, what is Mozambican and what is Mozambique.

22/08/2019

What's your list of things you like?

17/08/2019

https://lithub.com/american-women-masters-of-the-short-story/

The double entendre in the title of Lucia Berlin’s new short story collection is a lot like the one in “To Serve Man,” Damon Knight’s science fiction short story made famous by an episode of The Tw…

25/07/2019

The never ending debate. Always intriguing to read more about it though.
https://themillions.com/2018/03/the-novel-versus-the-short-story-a-conversation-with-matthew-lansburgh.html

I would argue that given the increasingly diminished attention spans we all have these days, short stories should be more popular than ever.

11/07/2019

Considering what to get for your holiday-read? Here's many a gem, and -drumroll- translated works too!

https://bookmarks.reviews/category/story-collections/

01/07/2019

Interesting. Adding it to the TBR

http://www.saqibooks.com/book/modern-arabic-short-stories/

Modern Arabic Short Stories Edited by Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman The twelve stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West such as Idwār al-Kharrāṭ, Fu’ād al-Takarlī and Nobe...

19/06/2019

Ismat Chughtai is one of the best short story writers and one among the first few feminist writers of Urdu literature. Ismat Chughtai is considered the trend setter in Urdu short story and touched new topics which were considered taboo when Urdu short story was in its infancy and its scope of topics...

14/06/2019

Out today, "Orange World and other stories" by Karen Russell

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603892/orange-world-and-other-stories-by-karen-russell/9780525656135/

From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her...

10/06/2019

just stumbled unto this website. Thoughts, anyone?

https://yourmiddleeast.com/2015/08/28/10-great-arab-short-stories/

Novelist Rabih Alameddine recently asked, on Twitter, for short-story suggestions for a course he’ll be teaching. They must be “by writers from Middle East/North Africa region? Or maybe about the a…

09/06/2019

TBR alert
New daughters of Africa. Here’s one of the short stories from the collection.

"Security" by Yvette Edwards

01/06/2019

They're planting a tree in Kenya for every submission received. And a nice cash price (in GBP) to win, too
https://www.magicoxygen.co.uk/publishing-forest-classroom/

28/05/2019

If you're in to podcasts and short stories, and are up to date with ours, why not try these?

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jon-hagadorn/1001-classic-short-stories-and-tales

Expand your horizons with this collection of hand-picked classic short stories and tales from writers like Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. These fast-paced stories are chosen for their unique flavor and suitable for all age...

19/05/2019

Hear hear

Ruby Cowling has followed up awards from the Bridport Prize to the London Short Story Prize, with her debut collection This Paradise. We talk to her about what makes a great short story, how to edit your own work, and why 'bad' writing is where good writing starts. What drew you to short stor

02/05/2019

There’s a massive weak spot for uncanny short stories. “The stone thrower”, “the lottery”, “Onye mere nwa nebe akwa”, “the husband stitch” , “the Not-Needed Forest” and a few from “what it means when a man falls from the sky”.

Here’s a lovely list - although it’s not covering the globe. What’s your favourite uncanny story?

Short story collections featuring what Freud called "The Uncanny": "...that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long know to us, once very familiar."