Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

There’s plenty of horror-related media out there for this time of year. Whether it’s slasher films, YouTube videos or video games, you can always count on a digital screen to whisk you into some ...

A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story. By Molly Young Dear readers, This week’s theme is “short and sweet”: Short sentences, short stories, a sweet spot of a prose pair, and that’s all she ...

Apartment Story is a short, cinematic game on Steam that feels at first like a life simulator, but corrupts the domestic fantasy with a threat, an intruder, and a gun. It starts out all fun and games ...

Something is shifting in literary culture. " In a reading landscape reshaped by shorter attention spans and the relentless pace of modern life, short story collections are quietly staging a rebellion ...

Gina Chung's Green Frog is a fantastic medley of short stories that dance between literary fiction, fable, Korean folklore, and science fiction. Wildly entertaining, wonderfully diverse, and always ...

Writing short stories presents a unique challenge, requiring a careful balance of creativity, structure, and brevity. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), writers now have access to tools ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with GennaRose Nethercott about the power of folklore and her collection of strange and fantastic short stories, "Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart." According to GennaRose ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...