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Short stories published on Reddit have been selling for lucrative amounts to studios like Warner Bros, Amazon MGM and Netflix ...

The Next Generation Short Story Awards is proud to announce the Winners of its 2026 awards program. The Next Generation Short Story Awards (the "Short Story Awards") is a not-for-profit international ...

Writers over the age of 18 living in Ireland, and Irish writers around the world have until Friday 15th May 2026 to submit ...

We are all constantly running out of time. In reading that sentence you just ran out of at least one second. If that gives you as much stress as it does me, this list is for you. Reading to me is like ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Spooky season is here and with it comes the desire to soak in all things horror. There are plenty of horror movies and novels to read this October, but if you’re looking for something a bit less ...

“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 ...