Magazine Interview: Philip Elliot, Editor of ‘Into the Void’
Reading Time: 10 minutes Interview by David Frankel For readers and writers of the short story, literary magazines...
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See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith
Reading Time: 8 minutes Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to...
Short Story Review: ‘Something Special’ by Iris Murdoch
Reading Time: 5 minutes Review by Becky Tipper UK Edition Publisher: Vintage Classics (2001) 80 pages RRP: £9.99...
Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold
Reading Time: 4 minutes Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New...
Flash Fiction: Inciting Incidents and Why A Dog Tilts Its Head, by Adam Lock
Reading Time: 7 minutes Believe it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my...
Short Story Interview: Jon Chopan
Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview by Rupert Dastur Hi Jon, thanks for speaking to us at TSS. Your...
Chekhov’s Letters, by Peter Jordan
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2008, I had to submit a 20,000-word dissertation of short stories for a...
Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK, by K. T. Wimhurst
Reading Time: 16 minutes Rental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the...
Magazine Interview: Nuala O’Connor, Editor-in-Chief of Splonk
Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview by Alex Reece Abbott Splonk is a new twice-yearly flash e-zine based in...