There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers. Despite ...

Colwill Brown has won the twentieth anniversary BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) for ‘You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle’, a ‘tense’ and ‘increasingly heartbreaking’ ...