From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore’s collection approaches Southern identity from a ...

THOSE of us who keep a watchful eye on the short story — as I must, since I am charged with the responsibility of choosing some twenty stories each year for the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories — ...

Read a few intriguing stories from the past, including a cigar-smoking toddler, a runaway Lizzie, a watermelon train wreck and miraculous survival tales from the 1920s to 1940s. As I do research for ...

Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book prize ...

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 ...

Expecting Stephen King to slow down any time soon? No chance. The author has published 65 novels/novellas and over 200 short stories, and at 78, he shows no signs of stopping. King enjoys his work, ...

Editor’s Note: The Iowa City Press-Citizen has run a short story every Christmas since 2011. Tom Gingerich of Kalona, whose work was selected by a panel of readers, has penned those stories since 2014 ...