I’m a big fan of short stories. Novels are a wonderful indulgence, both for the reader and the writer, but I like that a short story is complete in itself, it’s...
“How would I define flash fiction?” mused a poet friend early in 2016 as we discussed New Zealand’s forthcoming National Flash Fiction Day. “Prose poetry with a...
Recommendation by Josephine Greenland
“Change us,” the narrators chant. “Change us, we ask the blood inside us. Change us, we ask the ghost mothers and fathe...
Metrics distort.
This has long been a favourite saying of mine. What you measure changes what you accomplish.
2017 was the year I started using a spreadsh...
Article by Professor Charles E. May
Mariella Frostrup, chair of the 2013 judges of the BBC National Short Story Award, said all the judges were “seduced” by ...
Recommendation by Josephine Greenland
I met her in a cocktail bar, but she wasn’t working as a waitress. She was getting drunk like me at the counter, blabbing...
Article by Professor Charles E. May
Miroslav Penkov, “East of the West”: BBC Winner, 2012
I suspect what won over the judges in the 2012 BBC National Shor...
Article by Mark Stewart
Many people in mainstream publishing will tell you that no one reads short stories anymore. But that simply isn’t true. The short sto...
