Author Wendy Erskine chose The Shoulder as this year’s winner of The Moth Short Story Prize, worth €3,000. “This is a ...

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, is back on Netflix with a new series, Long Story Short. The story follows a Jewish family across five generations, from childhood to ...

This is a mesmerising story told in a tender, unhurried way by a poised and talented writer. It’s poetic and has a beautiful ...

“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

Anton Chekhov transformed the short story genre by turning ordinary lives, quiet heartbreak and human contradictions into ...

"There’s no formula to a successful short story, but whatever its strength is going to be – whether plot, a narrative voice or poetic language – it must be established quickly. Not necessarily ...

We typically put fiction into one of two categories: It’s either a short story, or it’s a novel. But there is another variation that lands somewhere in between the two. Yes, the novella. What exactly ...

Can you tell the difference between a human-written short story and an AI-generated one? Most people can’t. In a series of experiments led by a team at Villanova University, researchers found two ...

The story of the writer who called himself O. Henry could almost be an O. Henry story. The writer—his real name was William Sidney Porter—had a secret, and he spent most of his adult life trying to ...