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Nominees for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, were announced over the holidays. Presented by the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Museum, the ...

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The winners of the Liverpool Literary Festival schools short story competition were presented with their prizes in an exclusive ceremony at the University of Liverpool on Monday 2 December. Over the ...

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Split Fiction follows two young writers named Zoe and Mio who are looking to get their stories published, and come across a corporation specializing in simulation. Its technology lets users play ...

Reputations and estimations—gossip, in the wrong hands—loom large in any account of Guggenheim’s life. Her mother’s side of the family looked down on her father’s for having made their ...

Over the past two decades, literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are increasingly written by women and read by women. In 2004, about half the authors on the New York Times ...

It is fiction. Tuck weaves her story around the photo, part of a triptych of images of Czeslawa, and anchors it within a carapace of historical fact. Her tale, structured as a series of short ...

Lucy Hale's super chic bob is equal parts ladylike and timeless. According to hairstylist Katelyn Ellsworth, a short-blunt bob, like Lucy's, should feature ends that are bluntly cut and hit just ...

A Way to Be Happy is a short story collection by Caroline ... which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and her middle ...