Entries are now being accepted for the 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. The Award, now in its ...

It’s been a long day, and you’re just trying to get some sleep. But as you struggle to drift off, your mind wanders to the dark side. That’s when you know it’s time to get spooked!

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

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 ...

This year’s “Best American Short Stories” collection features New England-based editors, authors, literary journals, and stories.

American short fiction has always thrived on intensity. Within a few pages, it can capture a lifetime, a heartbreak, or a national mood. The following pieces (tragic, witty, haunting, and strange) ...

Alice Munro, the Canadian Nobel Prize-winning master of spare short stories that explored what she called "the complexity of things – the things within things," has died at age 92. She died Monday ...

The short story is a type of fiction that tells a poignant narrative on a smaller scale. It is important that the characters and the plot of a short story are established and developed properly within ...