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European Network of Short Fiction Research

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We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.

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European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Special Issue | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2026/07/21/s...

Special Issue | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors

Guest edited by Elsa Court (University of Oxford), Nina Ellis (The American University in Cairo), and Sonya Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University). In ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Ernest Hemingw…

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Dear all, Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review. The Editors www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Issue 28 - The Manchester Review

Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Luke Buffini, ‘Damilola’ Joe Bedford, ‘Mating Habits’ Lillith Pollock, ‘On Wanting’ Lavanya Arora, 3 poems Thomas Storey, ‘Windwatt’ Gary Dunca...

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European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social · last yr.

The 8th Annual ENSFR Conference (June 10-12, 2026) Dear ENSFR Members, Following the ideas initiated at the Leuven conference in 2017 on the short story, its contexts and co-texts, the 2026 ENSFR conference will be devoted to short forms appearing in magazines and newspapers. CFP to follow.

Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live! We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe. We hope you enjoy reading our new issue. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Issue 27 - The Manchester Review

Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Róisín Leggett Bohan, 3 poems Livi Michael, ‘Signs’ Immanuel Misfud, ‘Rue Garenne’ (trans. Ruth Ward) Cormac Culkeen, ‘My Dog Ate the Sun’ Laur...

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Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · last yr.

An ill wind: Poppyland, by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social , reviewed in The Spectator by George Cochrane ‘Norfolk life looks quietly bleak in these carefully worked short stories of broken homes, precarious employment, dwindling expectations and torpor’

An ill wind: Poppyland, by D.J. Taylor, reviewed

As the term refers to the stretch of the north Norfolk coastline between Sheringham and Mundesley, only one of the stories in D.J. Taylor’s engrossing new collection strictly takes place in ‘Poppyland...

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Paul Anthony Knowles Reviews Corinne Fowler's Our Island Stories. 'Fowler unearths the hidden legacies of slavery, capitalism and exploitation that make up contemporary British relationships with the countryside' www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12892

Corinne Fowler, Our Island Stories, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles - The Manchester Review

Fowler unearths the hidden legacies of slavery, capitalism and exploitation that make up contemporary British relationships with the countryside Corinne Fowler | Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through ...

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Dr Emma K Pey@ekpey.bsky.social · last yr.

Some of my best PhD experiences @universityofessex.bsky.social included presenting and attending @ensfr.bsky.social conferences. Here is my spotlight on writing short fiction (thanks Ines Gstrein & Paul Anthony Knowles). The challenge was answering 3 questions in 75 words! ensfr.univ-angers.fr

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The European Network for Short Fiction Research was established in 2013 with the aim of fostering and promoting the study of short fiction in European universities and in interaction with short fic…

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