Rash invention: Williams, Booth, and building without blueprints
Reading Time: 4 minutes Essay by Richard Smyth Invention isn’t always in fashion. Readers of short fiction, in...
Non-Fiction
The Short Story Interview: Ingrid Persaud
Reading Time: 7 minutes Ingrid Persaud is a writer and artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She came to...
The Short Story Interview: Jonathan Kemp
Reading Time: 9 minutes Interview by Denise McCulloch I was intrigued by the Theodor Adorno quote that opens...
Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.4 ‘Tea at the Midland’ by David Constantine)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Article By Professor Charles E. May David Constantine, “Tea at the Midland” 2010 BBC...
The Short Story Interview: Nicholas Royle
Reading Time: 9 minutes Interview by Rupert Dastur Hi Nick, thank you for speaking to us. You have...
The Uncanny, by Sigmund Freud
Reading Time: 50 minutes The “Uncanny” 1 (1919) SIGMUND FREUD I It is only rarely that a...
The Short Story Review: ‘Collected Stories’ by John McGahern
Reading Time: 4 minutes Review by James Holden When the Irish writer John McGahern died in 2006,...
Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.3 ‘The not-Dead and the Saved’ by Kate Clanchy)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Article by Professor Charles E. May Kate Clanchy, “The Not-Dead and the Saved” 2009...
The Short Story Interview: Anushka Jasraj
Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview by Jennifer Emelife Congratulations on being regional winner of the Commonwealth short story...