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Colleagues are invited to submit their proposals for the 'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference which will be held at the University of York, 4-6 November 2026.

‘He Who Saw the Deep’ by Sîn-liqe-unninni, translated by Andrew George (First written down in about 1200BCE, published in The Epic of Gilgamesh in this translation, Allen Lane 1999)

Post-apocalyptic beachcombers, alien invaders and weird jokes — you don’t have to fully understand M John Harrison’s The End of Everything to enjoy it

Last week, when the online world erupted into anger and frustration about the supposed AI-produced or -enhanced short story ‘The Serpent in the Grove’, I was marking an undergraduate creative writi…

The Last Shaman by Livi Michael In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices. Over three nights in July a special r…

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books

We will be celebrating 20 years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize at the Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, on March 17th starting at 7pm. The evening will see Prof. Ailsa Cox, the world’s only profe...

A spaceship returns to Earth after a long journey seeking other habitable planets.

This launch event celebrates the publication of a new Short Fiction in Theory and Practice special issue which critically examines materiality in the short fiction of Alice Munro (1931-2024). Throu…

‘A Way Home’ by Theodore Sturgeon (First published in Amazing Stories, 1953.

Something of a gruelling watch. I only realised afterwards how tense I'd been in the cinema. Tense, I suppose, because I knew it was going to put me through the wringer (similar to Matthias Glasner's ...

Walsall residents respond to reports living there is like "an episode of Shameless".

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

Join us as we honour the enduring legacy of Charles E. May’s Short Story Theories (1976), a landmark work that reshaped how we read, teach, and think about short fiction. This special event …

Join us as we honour the enduring legacy of Charles E. May’s Short Story Theories (1976), a landmark work that reshaped how we read, teach, and think about short fiction. This special event …