THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

Which short story collection is your favourite author’s favourite? Get ready to add many, many great reads to your list, as we’ve asked 14 of 2025’s hottest authors for the short stories ...

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula ...

Eleven Short Story Collections That Will Get You Back Into Reading If you’ve been looking to dip your toes into the world of short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start.

April 02, 2025 at 6:00am BST. TIME is running out for aspiring writers to enter this year’s Mairtín Crawford Awards for Short Stories and Poetry, which is part of the Belfast Book Festival.

Five Canadian authors are shortlisted for the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The $10,000 award is given out annually to the year's best first collection of short fiction.

Author Mahesh Rao, whose first book, One Point Two Billion (2015), was a collection of short stories, calls this pronouncement “a self-defeating thing”, because it shrinks the market for short ...

But even prominent writers can see their work slip through the cracks. In Stoker’s case, one short story saw publication before being forgotten for over 130 years and has only now been found.