NEWTOWN — The Bucks County Short Fiction Contest is pleased to announce the 2024 winners. Marc Elias Keller of Yardley won first place for his story, “The Heart that Matters Most.” Linda Lindahl, also ...

She is a writer based in Vancouver. Her work has been published in Carte Blanche, English Studies in Canada and Exile ...

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow. If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you know ...

Short stories are a dying art. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I consumed many pulp and mystery short stories, satisfying my literary taste and inner bookworm. Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Ed McBain ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

NEW YORK — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. “The Land of Sweet Forever” compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

American Short Fiction, a nonprofit literary organization based in Austin, Tex., has announced its fall 2024 "MFA for All" program. The series will feature three accomplished authors as faculty: Jamel ...

A newly released collection of the Australian master’s short fiction shows her sympathy, her virtuosity and her ear. By Joumana Khatib Joumana Khatib is an editor at the Book Review. When you purchase ...

When I sent Kim Stanley Robinson the short stories we had deemed finalists in the Bulletin’s first-ever short fiction contest, Write Before Midnight, I was a bit apprehensive. The other preliminary ...

“Short fiction” rather than “short stories” is an apt descriptor of the varied works I have before me. Review: Wait Here – Lucy Nelson (Summit Books); Playing Nice was Getting Me Nowhere – Alex ...