Doris Lessing: Behind the Door of Room Nineteen, by Kate Jones
Reading Time: 8 minutesI came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her seminal...
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See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith
Reading Time: 8 minutesPeter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to the...
Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New Zealand...
Flash Fiction: Inciting Incidents and Why A Dog Tilts Its Head, by Adam Lock
Reading Time: 7 minutesBelieve it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my sister’s...
Chekhov’s Letters, by Peter Jordan
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn 2008, I had to submit a 20,000-word dissertation of short stories for a creative...
Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK, by K. T. Wimhurst
Reading Time: 16 minutesRental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the Contemporary...
Of Mice and Men: the Short Fiction of John Steinbeck
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 [1953]), the six...
Alles Kaputt! Mary Postgate Revisited, by Mike Smith
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s short...
What Makes a Winning Flash Fiction? by Emily Devane
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow To Write Winning Flash Fiction What makes winning flash fiction? There’s no single answer...