Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.3 ‘The not-Dead and the Saved’ by Kate Clanchy)

July 28, 2017

Article by Professor Charles E. May Kate Clanchy, “The Not-Dead and the Saved” 2009 BBC Short Story Award Sometimes the subject matter of a short story al...

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Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.3 ‘The Numbers’ by Clare Wigfall)

July 21, 2017

Article by Professor Charles E. May Clare Wigfall, “The Numbers” 2008 BBC National Short Story Award Martha Kearney, chair of the judges of the BBC Nation...

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Magical Realism in Short Fiction: A Perfect Match, by Kate Jones

July 20, 2017

Article by Kate Jones Magical Realism is a genre of narrative fiction, originally originating amongst Latin American writers, as well as other areas of art, ...

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Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.2 ‘The Orphan and the Mob’ by Julian Gough)

June 3, 2017

Alex Linklater, associate editor of Prospect and founder of the National Short Story Prize (now the BBC National Short Story Award), has been quoted as assertin...

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The Dark Sexuality & Incestuous Undertones of Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories

May 8, 2017

Article by Kate Jones   Daphne Du Maurier’s (1907-1989) novels have often been described in terms of the gothic genre.  Much of her work has ...

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A Sense of Foreboding in Joanna Walsh’s ‘Vertigo’ – by Kate Jones

April 7, 2017

Article by Kate Jones   Recently longlisted for the prestigious 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Vertigo (2016, And Other Stories) is a coll...

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Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (no.1 ‘An Anxious Man’ by James Lasdun)

April 5, 2017

Article by Professor Charles E. May   Several years ago, American author Lorrie Moore said, “There’s a lot of yak about how short stories are...

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‘Foretelling a Dystopian Future: Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress’ by Kate Jones

March 2, 2017

Article by Kate Jones Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, (1939- ) has never been one to shy away from the big issues.  Possibly her most famou...

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