Gallant is the genius absurdist of the 20th century. Conditions were overripe for absurdism. Born in Montreal, Gallant was ...

The award celebrates the best mysteries across the fiction, nonfiction and television genres Mystery Writers of America ...

Samatha Adhyayana Kendra, Mysuru, has organised a State-level Short Story and Poetry Writing Contest in memory of its Founder-President, late writer Dr. Vijaya Dabbe for which it has invited entries ...

The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South. She received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter.

He was best known for a short pen name, “O. Henry.” The man behind the stories, William Sydney Porter, was a complicated character with a sharp imagination. Porter wrote hundreds ...