From surrealist romps to heartfelt examinations of family, love, and grief, these collections prove great things can come in ...

Here’s something I can’t say about too many authors: I remember where I was the first time I read a short story by Thisbe Nissen. And I remember how quickly I sought out the original University of ...

Barbara Parkin has made the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for A Second Storey. The winner of the 2026 CBC Short Story ...

“I think for me it’s about playfulness. … I guess the thing I always fear is rigidity or getting stuck, and stories were just an opportunity to think differently, think about different kinds of ...

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, who will be a writing mentor for Whitworth University’s new, low-residency Master of Fine Arts program, said that, despite trying to write about other things, her work ...

'History of Heartache' chronicles the struggles of working-class characters leading hard-scrabble lives. Strickland appears ...

This year has already seen the publication of notable short fiction collections, including Lauren Groff’s “Brawler,” Sydney Rende’s “I Could Be Famous,” Kim Samek’s “I Am the Ghost Here,” and Senaa ...

The thing Brock Clarke has always liked about fiction, he says, is that it enables you to do something with material that no one else would ever bother with or even think of. Take, for example, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple Valley author Elizabeth Aguilar holds nothing back in her debut short story collection. She splays it all in a shocking yet ...

Heart Lamp, this year's International Booker Prize winner, is the first short story collection to receive the award. It is also the first time the prize has been awarded to an author writing in ...

Of the countless short stories Stephen King has written, classics like "Survivor Type," "The Jaunt," and "Quitters, Inc." are ...