We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction. The Story Prize, established in 2004, has honored books by Edwidge Danticat, ...

The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American ...

Horatio Alger's repetitive stories reached their true popularity and became synonymous with social mobility largely thanks to ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South ... to beginning writers, Don’t be unduly worried by the analyses of stories you may see ...

B. Pladek's speculative tale about the dark future of education, 'Teach Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness,' appears on io9 ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

Every book New York Times best-seller Michael and Kathleen Gear write is influenced by Wyoming. After 88 published books, the ...

Danny Nielsen is a biologist at UNR and the author of a collection of short stories called Straight Flossin’ and Other Stories of the American West. It’s a collection of short stories and essays that ...