After hours of proclamations and public comment, the Atlanta City Council got down to business Monday and took action on the ...

Faria Basher becomes the first Bangladeshi writer to win the Asia regional prize at the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her surreal, satirical story “An Eye and a Leg” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance won a weekend auction for Drift, an unpublished short story by Ben Queen & Jason Shuman that has It! helmer Andy Muschietti attached to direct. Deadline hears that the project ...

Despite an increase in Indiana’s pre-K spending per child last year, the report shows On My Way Pre-K still only meets two out of 10 benchmarks NIEER uses to judge successful state pre-K programs.

Writing short stories presents a unique challenge, requiring a careful balance of creativity, structure, and brevity. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), writers now have access to ...

The 1980 short story, which is about a cursed monkey toy that causes people to die in horrific accidents when it plays its cymbals (in the movie it’s a drum), was originally published in the ...

Life gets busy. Why not consider a great short story instead?  The short story “offers a complete experience in one sitting,” says Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor at The New Yorker, who selects ...

Open to all Ontario residents, the Toronto Star Short Story Contest — one of North America’s longest-running and largest — allows submissions on any topic, with a 2,500-word limit.

'Tis the season for spooky tales told in the dark. While we never need an excuse to read, Halloween is the ideal time to dig into a ghastly ghost story or a chilling true crime book. So, to celebrate ...