Can’t concentrate for 250+ pages right now? A short story might be just the thing to get you back into reading regularly. Spending lots of time at home over the past year has given us more time ...

The classic form of the short story is condensed within the nucleus of that future, unwritten story. Contrary to the predictable and conventional (gamble–lose–commit suicide), the intrigue is ...

“A short story, generally speaking, is about one thing, and one big thing needs to happen in it,” says Neil. “Which is not to say that you can’t have lots of different events. It’s just ...

With a deadline of Tuesday 7th January fast approaching, Specsavers has issued a final call for aspiring young authors to get ...

The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is a distinguished national writing competition for writers born or living in Wales. Originally established in 1991, we are delighted to manage this prestigious ...

To enter, send an original, unpublished short story, written in English on the ... for promotional and/or editorial purposes in any format in print and non-print media without additional consultation.