The winning book, the first collection of short stories to be awarded the prize, was announced by author Max Porter, chair of the 2025 judges, at a ceremony in London’s Tate Modern. The prize ...

Faria Basher, a writer from Bangladesh, has been announced as one of the five Regional Winners for this year's Commonwealth Short Story Prize. After being shortlisted for the award earlier this ...

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 ...

It’s the short story that has everyone talking. It was in every paper. On every radio station. On the television news. And all across platforms and social media. ‘Hopefully we will put it ...

The beach kids appear at the screen door like ghosts, and I hide behind my mother’s skirt. Good mornin’, ma’am, they say in soft voices. A brother and a sister, I assume. Same bright eyes ...

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist, revealed today, features 25 "relevant, vibrant and essential" unpublished stories selected from a record-breaking 7,920 entries. The stories ...

When you write a short story, the lack of constraints and parameters can feel freeing until you realize the open playground is full of craters, ones you can fall into and then never emerge.

Altman likes to think so. He posted this AI-written short story to his X page Tuesday, saying, “This is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI.” If a human wrote ...

Bob Johnson, a former WSBT-TV operations manager, has published a book of short stories called "The Continental Divide." The book, published by Cornerstone Press, features dark and vivid tales set ...

The film blends horror with comedy, with some of the goriest, grizzliest scenes played for laughs, while the short story features the kind of menacing horror King’s work is known for.

All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the weird, the mind-expanding and the futuristic in pocket-sized format. Did you know that Hugo Gernsback, after whom science ...