This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via ...

The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction. The Story Prize, established in 2004, has honored books by Edwidge Danticat, ...

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

Marvel celebrates Sam Wilson in a book of short stories that sees Captain America face off with some of the best villains in ...

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...