It's been 20 years since a couple of cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, first met herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain - ...

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has – like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change – seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...

Discover how George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones began as a simple short story before it redefined the fantasy genre. Read on to know more!

US-based Guyanese writer Subraj Singh has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean region) for his story “Margot’s Run”, a release from the Commonwealth Foundation announced ...

May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by checking out one of these great Canadian short story collections. If you're also interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions ...

Winners of the Star’s 47th annual short story contest were announced Tuesday night, with Jessica Wareing’s “Heaven Without” placing first.

Entertainment ‘Short stories are magic’ - Lucy Caldwell on why aspiring authors should hurry up and enter the Mairtín Crawford Awards David Roy chats to Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell ...

Judging this story as I’d judge a short story published in The Stinging Fly or the Winter Papers is the wrong approach to take. Reading AI-generated stories demands a new type of literacy ...

ChatGPT just wrote the most beautiful short story, and I wonder what I'm even doing here. News. By Lance Ulanoff published 12 March 2025 'The road to hell is paved with adverbs' ...

Elton John’s 1972 hit “Rocket Man” might seem adequately melancholy on its own, but the short story that inspired it is even more devastating. As has always been the case with John, he wrote ...

The 1980 short story, which is about a cursed monkey toy that causes people to die in horrific accidents when it plays its cymbals (in the movie it’s a drum), was originally published in the ...