Short writing may not seem like a natural goal for journalism on the web. It's easy to assume there's infinite space to fill up, and if we've done all the reporting and have tons of material, ...

Why should you want to be prolific as a short-story writer? After all, just look at Ted Chiang. He writes one short story every twenty years, and he’s become a living god of science fiction ...

Short writing takes less time. Testimony on this subject comes from no less a figure than Blaise Pascal who apologized to a reader for having written a long letter, arguing that he didn’t have ...

THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

He has come to see writing as the only form of therapy available to him, Mr. Stanifer, 36, said. Image Tyrone Stanifer in his solitary cell at the Hennepin County Jail, with a book he checked out ...

Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...