Wigleaf Top 50 Flash Fictions 2008-2016: The Movers and Shakers

  Wigleaf Top 50 Flash Fictions 2008-2016: The Movers and the Shakers, a Quantitative Analysis Article by Rupert Dastur   On ente...

The Short Stories of Tennessee Williams, by Robert Boucheron

Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia. His short stories and essays appear in Fiction International, London Journal of Fiction, Lowe...

Don’t Forget the Title: The Problem with Short Stories

  Article by Rupert Dastur   There’s a big fat problem with short stories – their titles are forgettable. Last year, I read hundreds ...

Short Stories: Making a Collection, Part I

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...

On Writing Short Stories: Observations and Apercus

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

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 ...

Setting and Place in Short Stories by Tamsin Hopkins

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...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Submission

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...