Frank O'Connor shortlist announced

The 57 titles longlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Award have been whittled down to a shortlist of six.

Oxfam's money-raising collections

Ox-Tales is a series of four story collections loosely based on the four elements.

HarperPerennial's year of short stories

The US division of HarperPerennial publishers is celebrating the short story throughout 2009.

Debut collection wins Wales Book of the Year

Deborah Kay Davies' debut collection, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, has won the 2009 Wales Book of the Year.

Scritture Giovani

It's not particularly newsy, but the Scritture Giovani website is worth looking at for translated short stories.

Get an earful

A new online audiobook site is selling short story downloads for as little 79p.

Alice Munro wins Man Booker International Prize

It's been a good year for the short story: first Elizabeth Strout wins the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge and now Alice Munro has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize.

Litro shake-up

London’s small, free and surprisingly capacious short fiction magazine has brought together two new editors with fresh and unusual angles from which to present their selection of stories.

Yeeee-haaw! 'Cowboy Up' short story contest

Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc. is launching its first annual Cowboy Up short story contest.

2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize shortlist

The shortlist for the 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize was announced on 5 May.

Short story collection wins Pulitzer

Apologies for being behind the times with this one, but A SHORT STORY COLLECTION HAS WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION!

Write about Jack the Ripper

An intriguing new story competition is asking people to write about Jack the Ripper.

Go Polish!

OFF_ is an independent magazine and  press, publishing contemporary creative writing in English and Polish.

Litro

A new edition of Litro.

Short stories in the media

Yes, it's true - big articles about the short story.

Tell Tales is back

Tell Tales, the short story collective, will publish their fourth collection in April.

Tobias Wolff wins the Story Prize

The Story Prize, a US award worth $20,000, has been won by Tobias Wolff for his collection Our Story Begins (Knopf, US; Bloomsbury, UK).

Willesden Herald winner announced

The 2009 Willesden Herald short story competition has been won by Jo Lloyd for her story 'Work'.

2008 Aeon Award winners

Forty stories were shortlisted for the 2008 Aeon Award, seven of which were chosen by the judging panel to go to science fiction writer Ian Watson for the final verdict.

2009 Bridport Prize open for entries

The Bridport Prize is 'one of the top open writing prizes worldwide.'

Shortbread Stories Writing Project

www.shortbreadstories.com, a non-profit organisation based in Scotland, aims to encourage literacy throughout the country.

Live short fiction in Leicester

Short fiction events at the Y Theatre in Leicester.

Live short stories in Brighton

Short Fuse is kicking off 2009 with a busy programme of live literature events in Brighton.

Lots of competitions for 2009

Welcome to 2009!

Prize organisers have been writing to us to announce details of their new writing competitions for 2009.

New magazine seeks submissions

Launching January 2009, First Edition magazine is a new monthly glossy solely dedicated to publishing works by new writers and authors.

Mechanics' Institute Review 5 now available

The fifth issue of the literary magazine The Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR) is now available.

Nam Le wins 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize

The Vietnamese-born writer Nam Le has been awarded the 2008 Dylan Thomas prize.

Short Story Library

Short Story Library is a free online magazine which offers poetry, microfiction, flash fiction and short stories on the web.

Interzone 218

Interzone 218 is a Chris Becket special.

New fairy tales online

A new website is being launched for new, original fairy tales.

Write a bit of a very long story

The Forever Story encourages people to contribute to the world’s longest collectively-written story.

New magazine for flash fiction

Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine launched on 1 October 2008.

Clare Wigfall wins the BBC National Short Story Award

Clare Wigfall has won the 2008 BBC NSSA for her story 'The Numbers'.

Edge Hill Prize winner announced

Claire Keegan has been awarded the 2008 Edge Hill University Short Story Prize for her second collection Walk the Blue Fields.

Outright winner of Frank O'Connor Award announced

The jury of this year's Frank O'Connor Award has dispensed with a shortlist and given the prize to Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (Bloomsbury).

True stories wanted

Story exists to tell you about fictional short stories, but for once we're making an exception to let you know about a new magazine-based competition.

Rebecca Lloyd wins Bristol Short Story Prize

Rebecca Lloyd, a creative writing teacher from Bristol, has won the inaugural Bristol Short Story Prize. 

Short story writer wins podcast award

Adam Maxwell, author of the short story collection Dial M for Monkey, has been awarded a North East Digital Award for Best Podcasting campaign. 

Retelling the fairy tale

The Romance of Trees is a new website all about retelling the fairy tale.

A new magazine for women writers

The Yellow Room is a new short story magazine for women writers.

Could you write a story of 160 characters?

Txt Lit is a new literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system, or SMS (Short Message System).

Downloadable short stories - for free

The Wireless Theatre Company produces audio short stories, books, comedy sketches and plays, all of which can be downloaded for free from their website.

Short and scary

Two developments in the world of horror fiction.

Website for short story reviews

Short story writer and blogger Tania Hershman has launched a website to review short story collections.

The Fix relaunches online

TTA Press, publisher of short fiction showcases Interzone, Black Static, and Crimewave, also published The Fix. The latter, in its print incarnation, provided critical analyses and reviews of an extensive range of short fiction.

'Magical realism and light fantasy'

Serendipity is a new online monthly magazine dedicated to publishing entertaining magical realism and light fantasy.

US short story website

alexanderbecquer.com's mission is 'to share with everyone the joys of reading and writing good literature.'

'Writer gives his stories away for free' shock!

New Zealand-based short story writer Chris Bell has decided to make his stories freely available on his website.

Caine Prize winner announced

Uganda’s Monica Arac de Nyeko has won the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for 'Jambula Tree' from African Love Stories ( Ayebia Clarke Publishing). The £10,000 prize was awarded at a dinner in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Pub in London's Lamb's Conduit Street hosts story evenings

Liars' League is a series of short fiction readings held at the Lamb pub in Lambs Conduit Street, London on the second Tuesday of every month.

AL Kennedy's take on the health of the short story in Britain

Scottish author AL Kennedy aired her views about short stories in the Independent on 12 June 2007.

Jonathan Lethem's Promiscuous Materials project

Essayist, novelist and short story writer Jonathan Lethem has made available (with a few restrictions) the rights to some of his stories - for the grand sum of one dollar each.

New Manchester-based magazine

Time For Heroes is a new Manchester-based magazine, looking for submissions.

Transcript

Transcript, the European Internet Review of Books and Writing, is published solely on the Internet and appears once every two months in tri-lingual format (English, French and German).

Spread the (Spoken) Word

Comma Press has launched a series of spoken word mp3s from some of the UK's finest writers of short fiction.

Tales of the Decongested

Short-story writers and enthusiasts Paul Blaney and Rebecca Lattin-Rawstrone set up Tales of the Decongested to raise the profile of the short story in London and to encourage and showcase new talent.

Unanswered Questions: The Hyperliterature Exchange

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the web. More than 120 works are now listed.