|
| |
| | Short story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The short story has also come to embrace forms of non-fiction such as travel writing, prose poetry and postmodern variants of fiction and non-fiction such as ficto-criticism or new journalism. | | | At the end of the 16th century, some of the most popular short stories in Europe were the darkly tragic "novella" of Matteo Bandello (especially in their French translation). | | | The mid 17th century in France saw the development of a refined short novel, the "nouvelle", by such authors as Madame de Lafayette. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story
(1278 words)
|
|
| |
| | Radio National Short Story Home Page |
| | Short Story on Radio National, the best of classic and contemporary short fiction from Australian and world writers read by some of Australia's leading actors. | | | Wayne Macauley is a Melbourne writer whose stories have been published in Meanjin, Westerly, Overland, Arena, HQ and other magazines. | | | He was a winner of The Age Short Story Competition in 1995 and was anthologised in Best Australian Stories in 2001. |
|
http://abc.net.au/rn/arts/sstory
(419 words)
|
|
| |
| | short story on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The minimalist short story: its definition, writers, and (small) heyday. | | | George Singleton is the author of two wildly acclaimed collections of short stories, the latest is "The Half Mammals of Dixie." |
|
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/shortsto.asp
(1169 words)
|
|
| |
| | Way Ahead: SHORT STORY ACUMEN |
| | We said short story writing is an art. | | | RITING a successful short story is an art. | | | It has been said that writing a brilliant short story can be more difficult than writing a novel. |
|
http://www.hsc-ltd.demon.co.uk/wayahead/ssa.html
(464 words)
|
|
| |
| | Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter S |
| | Poets and fiction writers, for example, are eligible for both short- and long-term residencies in the "Artists in the Schools and Community" programs sponsored by some state arts councils. | | | They teach writing and read their work in the sponsoring schools, which are usually expected to provide matching funds to the amount granted by the arts council. | | | For example, the writer might use comparison to describe a new character in a story as Maugham did in Of Human Bondage: "She had large black eyes and her nose was slightly aquiline; in profile she had somewhat the look of a bird of prey. |
|
http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/s.asp
(14261 words)
|
|
| |
| | NPR : Librarian's Picks: Short Story Favorites |
| | This is a collection of interlinked short stories, charting the amusing and slightly askew life of main character Charlotte Anne Byers. | | | This isn't so much a collection of short stories as a distillation of meaning, a flurry of ideas in 56 chapters. | | | But many Boyle fans gravitate to his many collections of short stories, especially After the Plague. |
|
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4868008
(655 words)
|
|
| |
| | 83.03.09: Elements of the Short Story |
| | There is not one scientist, mathematician, musician, artist, etc. that isn’t the main character in his or her own short story. | | | Sometimes a reference in one work of literature to a person, place or event in another work of literature or in history, art or music is known as an Allusion and quite effectively reinforces the meaning of a story. | | | Wilson Thornley writes in his book, Short Story Writing, “the reader intensely participates through identification and such identification and participation are imperative.” |
|
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html
(6906 words)
|
|
| |
| | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| | Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film. | | | Mary Gaitskill and Yiyun Li are among the All-Story contributors recently drawing prestigious distinction for their work. | | | With design and original photography by acclaimed musician Tom Waits, this beautiful edition includes contributions from Mary Gaitskill, Miranda July, Charles D’Ambrosio, David Means, and Paul Auster, among others; and marks the magazine’s first edition to be printed on glossy paper. |
|
http://www.all-story.com
(223 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story resources at Author Network |
| | Open to all writers of poetry, short stories, novels, etc in the Manchester area who want constructive feedback about their work. | | | The T Party - small writers' group based in London and the South East, specialising in "genre" fiction. | | | Other Worlds Writers' Workshop - editing and critique help for speculative fiction writers of all skill levels, featuring specialised workshops, a bookstore, and structured lessons for young writers. |
|
http://www.author-network.com/sstories.html
(733 words)
|
|
| |
| | The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology |
| | l978 -- The Stories of John Cheever is published, wins the Pulitzer Prize; Singer wins the Nobel Prize for his life's work in the short story genre; Ann Beattie's New Yorker stories collected in Secrets and Surprises. | | | l960 -- Story magazine revived by Whit and Hallie Burnett (after being founded in Vienna by Burnett and Martha Foley); The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken; O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away. | | | l983 -- John Gardner's The Art of Fiction becomes a how-to text; Cynthia Ozick's Art and Ardor; Simon Ortiz' Fightin'; Carver's Fires (essays on craft, stories, poems); Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River. |
|
http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/sschron.html
(2063 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story |
| | Short Story is the only journal which publishes original short stories, critical essays, book reviews, and occasional interviews all under one cover. | | | Since its inception, Short Story has been dedicated to providing a publishing outlet for serious writers of short fiction and an arena for short story theorists and critics to present essays and articles. | | | Complete your Short Story collection with the following back issues. |
|
http://www.uni.edu/english/shrtstry/shrtsty.html
(669 words)
|
|
| |
| | Carve Magazine Contest Page |
| | The Fish Short Story Prize 2004 is open to writers of any nationality writing in English. | | | The 2002 Raymond Carver Short Story Award at Carve Magazine: | | | The 2003 Raymond Carver Short Story Award at Carve Magazine: |
|
http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm
(1132 words)
|
|
| |
| | Trollope Society Short Story Prize |
| | The winner receives a cheque for £1,000 ($1,750 USD) and his or her story is published in the Society’s journal, Trollopiana. | | | To encourage interest in his novels among young people, the Trollope Society has established an annual short story competition. | | | Anthony Trollope was, he confessed, thoroughly miserable and ‘always in disgrace’ at school, yet he became a much loved author. |
|
http://www.trollopestoryprize.org
(192 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Short Story Page -- Anime Fan Fiction Section |
| | A sequel to the Bubblegum Crisis story Christmas, by Marco De la Cruz | | | Now she has to struggle to move from day to day. | | | True Love -- Priss Asagiri is finally getting her big break. |
|
http://www.jhedge.com/story/anime
(1287 words)
|
|
| |
| | SHORT STORY |
| | LITERARY FORM: genre; one of the classifications into which literary works are grouped, such as novel, short story, drama, essay. | | | • Part IV How does Flannery O’Connor’s “regionalism” contribute to or detract from her story? | | | For example, a character may struggle with his conscience, his passions, or his pride. |
|
http://www.guidanceassociates.com/shortstory.html
(2613 words)
|
|
| |
| | What Is A Short Story? |
| | If she is bored with your story, she knows her readers will probably be bored too. | | | If she makes it that far, even if she can't buy this particular story, she'll remember your name, and next time you have something that meets her needs, you'll probably make a sale. | | | This is also the story where the girl does not tell the police what she knows because she jumps to the conclusion that her lover is the murderer. |
|
http://mzbworks.home.att.net/what.htm
(1576 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story Criticism |
| | Criticisms of works of major short story writers of all eras and nationalities. | | | American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays -- on order | | | This is usually found in line 1 or 2. |
|
http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/shstorycritbib.html
(1473 words)
|
|
| |
| | Socialist Review |
| | I knew what the Selfridges-watchers were thinking: they were remembering (or remembering being told - some of them looked too young to recall life before the Christmas™ Act) an old tradition. | | | Call me childish, but I love all the nonsense - the snow, the trees, the tinsel, the turkey. | | | Award winning author China Miéville's new novel, Iron Council, has just been published by Macmillan. |
|
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9150
(3205 words)
|
|
| |
| | Classic Short Stories |
| | This page, and all contents (except, naturally, the stories), are © 1995-2004 BandL Associates, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. | | | This is unfortunate--so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. | | | This Web site is dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose. |
|
http://www.bnl.com/shorts
(572 words)
|
|
| |
| | short story - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about short story |
| | He perfected a detached, observational style which is shared to some degree by Guy de Maupassant, for whom the short story presented an opportunity to capture one particularly illuminating or revealing moment in the lives of ordinary people. | | | I've done a good deal of short story writing for the magazines, but I've never had the leisure that seems to be necessary for the writing of a book. | | | Short work of prose fiction, usually consisting of between 500 and 10,000 words, which typically either sets up and resolves a single narrative point or depicts a mood or an atmosphere. |
|
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Short+Story
(452 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story |
| | This class should be a springboard into college writing, as well as a place to allow creativity to bloom. | | | This way the student will have many samples of stories we will have read and discussed as springboards to his own writing. | | | Each student will write his own original short story. |
|
http://homepage.mac.com/mrs_wanlin/Education7.html
(688 words)
|
|
| |
| | Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Web Site |
| | This competition is dedicated to the craft of writing and awards $2,000 in cash prizes every year to top writers of short fiction. | | | Lorian Hemingway signs copies of her new book, "A World Turned Over," during the festival. | | | Lorian Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Walking into the River and the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee Walk on Water. |
|
http://www.shortstorycompetition.com
(109 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story Writing Tips - tips for writing short stories |
| | Short Story Writing Tips - tips for writing short stories | | | Why do some stories truly ring in the mind while others leave you with the feeling of 'what was the point?'. | | | Get this right and your story will have more resonance in the minds of your readers. |
|
http://www.shortstorygroup.com/storytips.htm
(231 words)
|
|
| |
| | Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2. |
| | Just as eyes, art often provides a window to the soul. | | | Story Bytes' very short stories offer a glimpse through this window into brief vignettes of life, often reflecting or revealing those things which make us human. | | | Subscribe to the mailing list (1 to 2 very short stories per week): |
|
http://www.storybytes.com
(129 words)
|
|
| |
| | Site Map of The Crime Library |
| | Who pulled the largest art heist in American history? | | | Tragic story of a man jailed for 15 years for crimes he didn't commit. | | | When his wife died, the story of novelist Michael Peterson became all too real. |
|
http://www.crimelibrary.com/fiction
(404 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story Index |
| | Entries feature links to other works by the author and other stories in the source collection | | | For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource. | | | Indexes more than 72,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies! |
|
http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/storeindec.htm
(280 words)
|
|
| |
| | ABC Short Stories » Home |
| | ABC Radio Regional Production Fund Short Story Project 2005 | | | Entries have closed for the 2005 Short Stories Project. | | | Welcome to the home of ABC Radio Regional Production Fund's Short Story Project! |
|
http://www.abc.net.au/shortstories
(119 words)
|
|
| |
| | short story |
| | A writer imagines a story to be happening in a place that is rooted in his or her mind. | | | That someone is telling the story from his or her own point of view. | | | This is part of the skill and the beauty of writing and, frankly, one of the reasons we read good writers: They dazzle us with their mastery of words, thereby showing us things about life we are otherwise unprepared to see. |
|
http://www.fdg.aranea.de/faecher/ZK_Arb_Englisch/seite7.htm
(3933 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Short Story |
| | (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form, as is the French translation of | | | (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short stories | | | (1888) first major success of a volume of short stories |
|
http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/engl207/shortsto.htm
(417 words)
|
|
| |
| | Unit Overview, Short Story |
| | Been exposed to the elements of the short story. | | | Had experience in creatively writing a short story. | | | The short story is a very manageable segment of writing; therefore the quick progression that is possible with short story should keep the students interested. |
|
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/more/LAShortStory_UnitOverview1112.htm
(200 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Short Story Page |
| | The stories and poems on this page are of wildly diverse genres. | | | Hearts In The Sand -- A man and his dog reach the end of their road together. | | | The stories linked to this page meet two criteria: they are all short to medium length stories or poems, and I like them (and I hope you will too). |
|
http://www.jhedge.com/story
(641 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short-short Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers |
| | Definitions are sometimes made by arbitrarily choosing a story length. | | | Rogers is an award-winning writer (Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker, etc.), and many of the subscription stories have gone on to appear in print in such magazines and anthologies as The Sun, Realms of Fantasy, Descant, Analog, and Polyphony. | | | Subscription stories are between 200 and 2,500 words long (with rare exceptions). |
|
http://www.shortshortshort.com
(546 words)
|
|
| |
| | Exhibits Collection -- Literature |
| | Join our journey through a classic short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell. | | | If you have read the story, click here to read about the elements of a good short story and to take part in activities related to "A Jury of Her Peers". | | | Along the way, you'll solve the mystery of whether Minnie Wright killed her husband and explore the story's literary elements. |
|
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature
(159 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon's short story News.blog CNET News.com |
| | But several writers doubted whether the retailer would be able to attract readers to stories by less than well-known authors, or if this would simply be a place for people who were already interested in a particular author or genre to buy those works. | | | Blog community response: "I don't imagine something like Amazon Shorts will constitute much of a threat to traditional short story markets because in terms of money and other less tangible benefits, most authors will continue to be better served by those markets. | | | On the one hand, the program has the potential to open up a much wider market for authors, and bring the short story genre to many more readers. |
|
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5843485.html
(478 words)
|
|
| |
| | short stories at east of the web |
| | The short story section of east of the web is a large online library of short stories with monthly features and additions. | | | We publish both classic stories and new writing in nine categories - fiction, humour, children's, science fiction and fantasy, crime, non-fiction, romance, horror and hyperfiction. | | | The library is fully searchable and all the short stories are downloadable (for reading offline or on a palm pilot) as well as available to read online or print out. |
|
http://www.short-stories.co.uk
(162 words)
|
|
| |
| | 5.01: Features |
| | He has also sparked director Stanley Kubrick's imagination with the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." First published in Harper's Bazaar in 1969 and later anthologized, this tale of humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future is the inspiration behind Kubrick's ongoing AI project. | | | Aldiss's story offers richly suggestive details that one hopes will make the cinematic cut. | | | Though Brian Aldiss bristles at being pigeonholed as a sci-fi writer, the British author has won every major science fiction award. |
|
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffsupertoys_pr.html
(2496 words)
|
|
| |
| | RodMer Short Story Room |
| | You can select and read any individual short story (as many as you want) immediately on-line or you can download a short story package in 'rich text format' for printing out on your printer. | | | You have just entered the RodMer Short Story Room containing eighteen of our short stories (twelve by Merike, six by Rod) organized into eighteen packages. | | | Or you can just look quickly at the one or two opening paragraphs. |
|
http://www.eagle.ca/~roda/RodMerArts/StoryRoom.html
(2009 words)
|
|
| |
| | Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story |
| | Edited with Introduction and Notes by Brander Matthews, LL.D. With a selection of 23 short stories from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, Brander Matthews—a pioneer of dramatic scholarship and professor at Columbia University—demonstrates, “the slow evolution of this literary species through the long centuries of advancing civilization.&; | | | Note to The Fall of the House of Usher |
|
http://www.bartleby.com/195
(175 words)
|
|
| |
| | Short Story Contest! |
| | The 2005 Tales of Future Past Short Story Contest Winners | | | Congratulations and a big thank you to all who participated. | | | We are proud to announce the winners of the 2005 Tales of Future Past Short Story Contest. |
|
http://davidszondy.com/contest.htm
(69 words)
|
|
|
Topic: Short story