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 ...

Can’t concentrate for 250+ pages right now? A short story might be just the thing to get you back into reading regularly. Spending lots of time at home over the past year has given us more time ...

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...