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Clare Wigfall wins the BBC National Short Story Award
Clare Wigfall has won the 2008 BBC NSSA for her story 'The Numbers'.
Small Wonder Festival
Once again the Small Wonder short story festival will be taking place at Charleston, East Sussex.
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.
BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award shortlist has been announced.
Rebecca Lloyd wins Bristol Short Story Prize
Rebecca Lloyd, a creative writing teacher from Bristol, has won the inaugural Bristol Short Story Prize.
Writers' and Artists' Yearbook competition
The publishers of the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook have launched a new short story competition.
Short story course at City University
A new certificate course at City University London offers writers of short fiction the opportunity to explore their craft and the historical/cultural contexts of their form, from initial ideas to revising and editing, over a one-year period, supported by a structured programme of evening classes.
And Then There Was Light launch event
The launch party for And Then There Was Light – a collection of poetry, prose and poetic prose from The Way of Words creative writing and live literature events – will be held on 24 June.
Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the inaugural Bristol Short Story Prize, a unique collaboration between Bristol Review of Books magazine and the Galleries branch of Waterstone’s in the centre of Bristol, was announced on 6 June.
scriblist.com publishes first book
Scriblist.com, an online collaborative writing project, has published its first book.
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.
Edge Hill Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Edge Hill Prize has been announced.
Caine Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize for the best short story in English by an African writer has been announced.
Frank O'Connor Prize longlist announced
The longlist for the €35,000 Frank O'Connor international short story prize was announced on 5 May.
Mundane SF causes a stir
Last year Interzone, the science fiction short story magazine, announced a special theme issue; the Mundane SF edition due out in May 2008, issue number 216, called on authors for submissions. The Mundane movement is the brainchild of author Geoff Ryman and his colleagues Julian Todd and Trent Walters.
Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award
The Stinging Fly is delighted to announce the return of the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award, Ireland's biggest short story competition.
Retelling the fairy tale
The Romance of Trees is a new website all about retelling the fairy tale.
Get your novella published
You could argue that a novella is nothing more than an overgrown short story, in which case it is just about feasible for us to mention that Roastbooks is looking for previously unpublished works to publish this autumn.
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).
Invisible Ink's innovative new competition
Towards the end of last year, a small group got together to launch a new concept in short story competitions.
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 FICTION's first issue
Issue 1 of the handsomely produced journal Short FICTION is now available.
International Aeon Award 2008
Albedo One (an Irish magazine of speculative fiction) has launched the International Aeon Award 2008.
Two stories by Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod and Penguin have generously donated two stories from Alison's collection Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction.
New 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.
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).
Litro
Litro is a free weekly publication which each week features one piece of original fiction. It is distributed outside London underground stations.
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.
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