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Articles and 
Blog Posts on Short Fiction

NEW THE LONELY VOICE #13: Walser on Mission Street by Peter Orner in The Rumpus

We Recommend Philip K. Dick Thresholds Short Story Forum March 28th 2011


Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? Guardian March 25th 2011

Future of Short Story Is Clear, Spanish author says Today's Zaman, Feb 9 2011

The Story Problem: 10 Thoughts on Academia’s Novel CrisisThe Millions, Jan 18 2011


And our short story prize nominees are... by AS Byatt (Sunday Times, March 2010)



Rose Metal Press Interviews Itself about Short Short Stories (Short Review blog, Nov 2009)

Why Book Publishers Love Short Stories (Alan Rinzler's Blog, Oct 2009)

Behind the Scenes of the Edge Hill Prize for Short Story Collections (Short Review blog, 2009)

The Lonely Voice: A New Column About the Short Story (The Rumpus, 21st April 2009)

Brevity Pulls: Praise of the American Short Story (New York Times April 4, 2009)

Edge Hill Prize Winner Chris Beckett Talks About his 20-Year Relationship with Interzone Magazine (Short Review blog, Aug 2009)

Christopher Fowler, Author of 11 Short Story Collections, Talks Stories (Short Review blog, Oct 2009)

James Lasdun on this Spring's Exciting Short Story Debuts (The Guardian, April 4 2009)

Year of the Short Story (Daily Beast, 25th March 2009)

A Brief Survey of the Short Story (The Guardian - series)

Could she Save the Short Story (The Sunday Times, Aug 10 2008)

Short Story: Theory and Practice (Comma Press)

Where the Readers Are (The Quarterly Conversation, March 2008)

The Story's Signature Space of Tethere Ferocity (Kate's Book Blog, Feb 27, 2008)

Critical Condition (Prospect, Feb 2008)

Short Stories and the Cell Phone: An Interview with Barry Yourgrau
(The Millions, Feb 24, 2008)

45 Favourite Short Story Collections (The Millions, Feb 22, 2008)

Their Master's Voice: The Rise and Rise of Brand McSweeney's
(The Sunday Times, Feb 3rd 3008)

A Single to Victoria and a Free Short Story, Please (The Observer, Jan 27 2008)

James Joyce's Araby (Canadian Writers Collective Blog, Jan 9 2008)

Don't sell the Short Story Short(Newsweek, Nov, 2007)

The orang-utan did it ( Guardian Unlimited Books, Nov 17, 2007)

The Story as One-Liner (Guardian Arts Blog, Nov 9, 2007)

Short Story Becomes HBO Feature Film (New Pages Blog, Nov 15, 2007)

High-wire performers (Guardian Unlimited Books, Nov 3, 2007)

Minimalising Raymond Carver (Guardian Books Blog, Dec 20, 2007)

Less said the Better (Guardian Books Blog, Oct 22, 2007)

Stephen King: What Ails the Short Story? (NY Times, Sept 30, 2007)

Jean Thompson responds to King's "What Ails the Short Story?

(Maud Newton's Blog, Oct 12, 2007)

Story Thoughts: A Writer's View by Clare Wigfall (Story, July 2007)

Julian Gough on Short Stories and winning the National Short Story Prize

(FictionBitch blog May 4, 2007)

Triumph of Brevity (Guardian Books Blog, Dec 6 2006)

Flashes on the Meridian: Dazzled by Flash Fiction (WritingWorld.com, 2002)


Reviews of
short stories and story collections

Andrew's Book Club

BellaOnline

Book Brouhaha

BookLoversWiki

LauraHird.com

Pulp.net 

ReadingWoman 

TheShortStory.org

Tangent Online

NEW The Reader

NEW Rob Around Books

Thresholds Short Story Forum

Tim Love

University Libraries: Short Story Reviews and Criticism


Books reviews (general) and 
literary magazines


NEW Artful Hatter

The Bookbag

Bookslut 

Bookmunch 

Chroma

Fringe Magazine

The Guardian: Book Reviews

Luna Park Literary Magazine Reviews

The New York Times Books

NewPages Reviews

Popmatters

Reviews of Books

Robin Mizell's Treated & Released

The Roving Editor

The Small Press Review

Slightly Foxed

The Times

Vulpes Libris




Contests and Awards
for Short Story Collections

Serena McDonald Kennedy Award (novella or short story collection, annual deadline July 31st)

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
(annual deadline February 28th)

Black River Chapbook Contest  (twice-yearly, May 31st and Oct 31st)

Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Contest  (Dec 31st 2010)

CAL Scribe Fiction prize (Australian citizens over 35)

Calvino Prize  (any fiction including short stories, annual deadline Oct 15)

The Camber Press Fiction Chapbook Award (10,000 words, deadline May 30 2010)

Diagram Chapbook contest (deadline April 30 2010)

NEW Doire Press Chapbook Contest (Jan 9th 2012, entrants must not have already published a short story collection, email and postal entries)

The Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman  (prose fiction - a collection of short stories or a novel or memoir, deadline Dec 1st in odd-numbered years, 2011, 2013, 2015 etc...)

Drue Heinz  Literature Prize (deadline June 30th 2010)

Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition

Fiction Collection Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest
(US Citizens only, short story collection/novel/novella)

The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (annual deadline May 31st)

The Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (annual deadline march 31st) 

Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest (Feb 15, 2010) 

The Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers (no fiction prize in 2010)

Hudson prize (unpublished collection of poems or short stories, deadline March 31st 2010)

The Iowa Short Fiction Award (annual deadline Sept 30)

The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for by an American Woman (Feb 1, 2011)

Juniper Prize for Fiction (Aug 1-Sept 30th annually)

Kore Press Short Fiction Award (women only, Nov 30th annually)

Leapfrog Fiction contest (any novel-length work including story collections, opens Jan 1 2011)

The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (US only) (Annual deadline Feb 16)

Noemi Press Chapbook Award (March 15 2011)

Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction (annual deadline - submissions postmarked January)

Prairie Schooner Book Series Competition (Jan 15 - March 15 2011) 

The Rogers Writers Trust (Canadians only - final deadline August 6 2010)

Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest (annual deadline Dec 1st)

The Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canadian only)

Scott Prize for Short Stories (UK & Ireland, the USA, or Australia & New Zealand only. Entries accepted annually between Jan 1st-Oct 31st)

The G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction (annual deadline January 15)

Split Oak Flash Prose Chapbook Contest (June 15th 2011, postal entries only)

Spokane Prize for Short Fiction (US only - March 15th 2010)

Stephen F. Austin State University Fiction Series' Fiction prize (manuscripts including short story collections, deadline March 31st 2010)

Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction (manuscripts including short story collections, deadline Feb 15 2011)

The Story Prize (annual deadline July 15th)

NEW Subito Press Contest for Innovative Writing  (manuscripts including short story collections, opens April 2011)

The Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction (Sept 1 2011)

NEW The Teacher's Voice  (literary nonfiction, short stories, and poems that reflect aspects of the American educational or teaching experience, Nov 23 2010)

William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (31 Jan 2012)




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