Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Gina Chung's collection is a fantastic medley of short stories that dance between literary fiction, fable, Korean folklore, and science fiction — and one that's full of emotional intelligence.

A study analyzing 40,000 stories reveals what Aristotle intuited centuries ago - narratives follow a common, predictable structure consisting of three key elements. Using computer analysis, ...

Director Susanna Fogel unpacks bringing the 2017 short story to the screen. "Cat Person" was about a bad date, and based on the internet's reaction, so much more. IE 11 is not supported.

Short Story is a clothing subscription service that provides curated style for women 5-foot-4 and shorter. It was my first experience with a personal shopper, and now I feel like a celebrity who ...

Sundance: How Viral New Yorker Short Story ‘Cat Person’ Became a Modern Dating Horror Movie. Director Susanna Fogel and screenwriter Michelle Ashford worried that Kristen Roupenian's ...

We typically put fiction into one of two categories: It’s either a short story, or it’s a novel. But there is another variation that lands somewhere in between the two. Yes, the novella. What ...

On Point's special series 'Elements of energy: Mining for a green future,' explores the environmental and human cost of mining, and asks what it would take for the U.S. to meet the Biden ...

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...

Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story “Cat Person,” published in The New Yorker during the height of #MeToo, struck such a cultural nerve that some readers mistakenly referred to it as a ...

The 2024 CBC Short Story Prize is accepting submissions until Nov. 1, 2023 at 4:59 p.m. ET.