In a world of ever-shrinking attention spans, the short story collection offers a potent dose of literary satisfaction. This ...

“It’s very persuasive and made me cry,” says Darby, who teaches short story writing at City University in London, and whose own stories have been produced for BBC Radio 4. “If you can ...

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Fiction means the story is made up, though of course you can base your story on something ... The best way to understand what is required in short story writing is to read short stories by ...

“You can do things in a short story that you can’t do in longer form prose,” enthuses Caldwell, . “You can be more experimental: you can write stories set in the future tense, or a ...