Tamsin Hopkins writes poetry and fiction. Her collection – Shore to Shore, river stories was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2017, is a set te...
Charlie Hill is the author of two novels, with a novella due in September from Cinnamon Press. His short stories have been widely published in print and onl...
The Development of the British Short Story: Volume 1
Professor Charles E. May is currently working on a history of the British Short Story as a genre in ...
Why should I care about setting in my stories? I always skip long descriptive passages, they’re boring.
If that sounds like you, if you’ve ever had the ghost...
Article by Sean Preston
Tonight I met a writer for a drink. Huddled against the brick of the outer wall, we sheltered against angled rain, and it struck me t...
By Anne O’Neill
Of all the literary forms I believe the short story to be one of the jewels in the crown. Storytelling in one form or other is hardwired int...
Wallowing in yet another rejection today, I realized that writers are either bat-shit-crazy or masochists.
Almost every writer who has made it (and lots who ...
