Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

The tragedy is obvious. Twenty-two-year-old Diane Oliver, from Charlotte, educated at the North Carolina Women’s College (UNC-Greensboro), a prodigious talent at the famed University of Iowa Writers’ ...

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of ...

The myth is this. Alaska is a big land, challenging its residents in big and heroic ways. The open country, extreme climate, abundant and sometimes dangerous wildlife, and geographical isolation from ...

We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers.

A central Iowa English professor’s debut collection of short stories is being released today and it’s an atypical collection since it reads more like a novel. Marc Dickinson, who teaches creative ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Seven years have passed since the three-time National Book Award-nominated author Lauren Groff last ...

Migrant Valley, one of America's most hidden regions –though it's right there at the side of the highway for anyone to see– is vividly portrayed in Manuel Muñoz's new short story collection "The ...

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, who will be a writing mentor for Whitworth University’s new, low-residency Master of Fine Arts program, said that, despite trying to write about other things, her work ...

If Maia left class too soon, or if the Sparrow left too late, they would miss each other in the crush of students that ...