Out today! Meet Alexander Manshel, Associate Professor of English at McGill University. How is contemporary short fiction in America influenced by the people and institutions that contribute to its production, circulation, and reception? Listen here to find out:
www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
15.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Dear ENSFR members,
We are delighted to present an exclusive interview with Farhana Shaikh the founder of Dahlia Books, a short story press championing diverse and underrepresented voices.
The event will take place on Monday 24th November, at 6pm (UK time), over Teams.
19.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Join conversation
Join us tonight form 6:00 Pm for an exclusive interview with Ra Page the founder of Comma Press.
@commapress.bsky.social
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13.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join conversation
Join us for this exclusive interview with the founder of Comma Press.
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
06.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Congratulations to them all but especially @cdrose.bsky.social
03.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Here's an official thing! Official is good.
03.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The 8th Annual ENSFR Conference (June 10-12, 2026)
Dear ENSFR Members,
Following the ideas initiated at the Leuven conference in 2017 on the short story, its contexts and co-texts, the 2026 ENSFR conference will be devoted to short forms appearing in magazines and newspapers.
CFP to follow.
23.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Well done all and especially Ed Hogan @ensfr.bsky.social
12.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An ill wind: Poppyland, by D.J. Taylor, reviewed
As the term refers to the stretch of the north Norfolk coastline between Sheringham and Mundesley, only one of the stories in D.J. Taylor’s engrossing new collection strictly takes place in ‘Poppyland...
An ill wind: Poppyland, by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social , reviewed in The Spectator by George Cochrane
‘Norfolk life looks quietly bleak in these carefully worked short stories of broken homes, precarious employment, dwindling expectations and torpor’
05.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
🌺 New from DJ Taylor – Poppyland 🌺
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
📖 Buy now:
www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop...
#Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories
29.05.2025 06:45 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
YouTube video by Writing for Life
Writing For Life: Outro
and finally...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Ud...
@ailsacox.bsky.social @ensfr.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com
24.05.2025 09:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ENSFR
The European Network for Short Fiction Research was established in 2013 with the aim of fostering and promoting the study of short fiction in European universities and in interaction with short fic…
Some of my best PhD experiences @universityofessex.bsky.social included presenting and attending @ensfr.bsky.social conferences.
Here is my spotlight on writing short fiction (thanks Ines Gstrein & Paul Anthony Knowles). The challenge was answering 3 questions in 75 words!
ensfr.univ-angers.fr
19.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Writing for Life
Episode 7 Recovery
latest episode here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOzR...
@ailsacox.bsky.social @ensfr.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com
19.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Writing for Life
Episode 6: Can publishing make you ill?
www.youtube.com/@Writing_for...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRW...
@ailsacox.bsky.social @ensfr.bsky.social
11.05.2025 06:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A blue swirled back featuring cartoon heads of the two hosts.
Small Pleasures podcast:
In the latest episode, Livi Michael and Sonya Moor look at two marvels of short fiction – Sarah Hall’s ‘Mrs Fox’ and Jackie Kay’s ‘My Daughter the Fox’.
09.05.2025 10:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Short fiction in a flash: a bite-size interview with Vesna Main, by Sonya Moor is now live on the ENSFR website.
ensfr.univ-angers.fr
08.05.2025 07:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Routledge Book Cover: Blue and Green design with title in white band in the middle
New Book: Anthologisation and Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. Specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form.
06.05.2025 09:24 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by The Short Story Podcast
Small Pleasures Episode 19: Sarah Hall 'Mrs Fox' and Jackie Kay 'My Daughter the Fox'
Our new Small Pleasures episode!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0U...
@ensfr.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social
06.05.2025 06:49 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A person looking out into the future
Final day for Papers!
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester.
Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to ensfrcg@gmail.com
02.05.2025 06:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An image of person looking out in the future represented by white clouds.
The person is covered in green foliage and electric wires.
A week to Go for CFP!
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester.
Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to ensfrcg@gmail.com
25.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Writer, professor, lady with lapcats
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Galley Beggars Prize 2023 / Nightjar / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Founded in 1970, UPM is the publishing arm of Mississippi’s state universities.
📚 Publishing books in African American studies, popular culture, and more.
💻 Learn more at https://www.upress.state.ms.us/!
Independent Academic Publishing | #WissenschaftStattFakeNews
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John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
Curriculum Development Consultant at Aberystwyth University. I write about literature’s relationship to politics, and weird little stories about weird little lives. My novel, Storm, will be published on the 8th of October with Seren Books.
Western University, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature. https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
PhDing on Oscar Wilde | fin-de-siècle art and literature; visual and material culture studies
Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
founder & editor @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social; curator @npcountrycovers.bsky.social; curator @ArtArk.bsky.social; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; Minor Regional Novelist
www.adamvanwinkle.com
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
short story collection "again, harder" coming from feminist press in 2026 ✨☠️ aliceostoehr@gmail.com https://feministpress.org/collections/coming-soon/products/9781558613898-again-harder
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Dr. phil.
Paperghosts collector. Nighttime gardener. New Romantic. Noticer. Nature methodised. Interested in the encounters of psychopathology and art.
Writer. Teacher. Student. My collection of poetry, subhuman., is out now from Wayfarer Books. Words in/soon in Poetry Mag, The Offing, The Poetry Lighthouse, and more. kashawntaylor.com
