Which short story collection is your favourite author’s favourite? Get ready to add many, many great reads to your list, as we’ve asked 14 of 2025’s hottest authors for the short stories they ...

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As the saying goes, we all have stories to tell. For some authors, these stories happen to be short. Just as the price tag of a product doesn’t signal its quality, neither does an author’s brevity ...

Now we're going to discover the ingredients for writing a ripping - but short - yarn. Short stories are sometimes considered the lesser cousin of the novel but short story officiandos say they're ...

The author’s conceptual agility is on display in these short stories surveying the trauma of conflict and the challenges of survival There are several wars, not all of them military ones, in these ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Highlights from this year's Melbourne Writers Festival; an event devoted to the short story JM Coetzee ...

Not every book that changes your life announces itself loudly. Some don’t come with hype, viral quotes, or thick spines. They arrive quietly—often unassuming and easy to underestimate. You pick them ...

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