31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 1: “Leonora” by Everil Worrell
Worrell foregrounds the degree to which male members of the medical establishment dismiss or ignore women's complaints.
31 Days of Stories 2023: Introduction
Short story writers operate in a literary form that seems endlessly malleable, protean, and open to experimentation.
The Journey Prize and Best Canadian Stories anthologies showcase strong offerings – and a few misfires
Each of these anthologies features a range of subjects and approaches, testifying to the richness of the landscape in Canada.
“You got yourself into a Lindsay Wong story”: The author of Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality talks about ghosts, Chinese families, and her idiosyncratic approach to fiction
"I'm interested in that idea: when we transform ourselves, are we transforming our pain?"
Queer fear: an anthology of fiction and poetry reimagines horror tropes from LGBTQ+ perspectives
"These stories ask the question What is a monster? and complicate the definition of 'monster' along the way."
Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.
With his new short story collection, Stuart Ross continues in the spirit of underground publishing
Traces of writers as diverse as Daniil Kharms and Jorge Luis Borges are detectable in the collection.
Alan Moore stretches the generic definition of a story with a single volume that comprises eight short(er) pieces and one full-on novel
Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.
In her first collection of short stories, Newfoundland’s Bridget Canning performs acts of radical empathy
Canning's fiction is as intriguing for what it leaves out as for what gets included.
31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 31: “The Witness for the Prosecution” by Agatha Christie
Chirstie’s story, which was later adapted by the author for the stage and by Billy Wilder for film, is exemplary of her patented twist endings.