Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

ISSN: 2043-0701
E-ISSN: 2043-071X

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is an interdisciplinary journal celebrating the current resurgence in short-story writing and research. Looking at short fiction from a practice-based perspective, it explores the poetics of short-story writing, adaptation, translation and the place of the short story in global culture.

Journal Status	Active
Collection(s)	Intellect Full Collection 2024 Intellect Full Collection 2022 Intellect Full Collection 2023

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- On judging and being judged
  
  By Livi Michael
- Eça de Queirós’s ‘The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman’: Double plots in world literature
  
  By Helena C. Buescu
- Like a Prisoner: Stories of Endurance (Trans. J. Hodgson), Fatos Lubonja (2022)
  
  By Zoe Lambert
- The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell, Phyllis Boumans, Elke D’hoker and Declan Meade (eds) (2023)
  
  By John D. Rutter
- Reading intimacy, resistance and intertextuality in Zadie Smith’s Grand Union
  
  By Ana García-Soriano
- ‘Multiple belongings’ in Zoë Wicomb’s ‘My Name Is HannaH’ (2005)
  
  By Marta Fossati
- Short story writing and garden making: Topia and heterotopia in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (Unaccustomed Earth)
  
  By Pascale Tollance
- ‘So what, I’m on the roof’: Lucia Berlin’s roots in Spanish and Chilean literatures
  
  By Nina Ellis
- Annie Dillard’s ‘Death of a Moth’ as world literature
  
  By Gábor Tamás Molnár
- Questioning morality in the modern age: Janet Frame’s fabular realism
  
  By Elsa Lorphelin
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Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

Latest Articles Lasest articles RSS feed

On judging and being judged

Eça de Queirós’s ‘The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman’: Double plots in world literature

Like a Prisoner: Stories of Endurance (Trans. J. Hodgson), Fatos Lubonja (2022)

The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell, Phyllis Boumans, Elke D’hoker and Declan Meade (eds) (2023)

Reading intimacy, resistance and intertextuality in Zadie Smith’s Grand Union

‘Multiple belongings’ in Zoë Wicomb’s ‘My Name Is HannaH’ (2005)

Short story writing and garden making: Topia and heterotopia in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (Unaccustomed Earth)

‘So what, I’m on the roof’: Lucia Berlin’s roots in Spanish and Chilean literatures

Annie Dillard’s ‘Death of a Moth’ as world literature

Questioning morality in the modern age: Janet Frame’s fabular realism

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Online versus Print: The reputation of literary fiction magazines

The short story cycle: Broadening the perspective

Down the road from Winesburg: The spatiotemporal aesthetics of the short story sequence in Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff and Laura Hendrie’s Stygo

You give me fever: Health, happiness and the inherent vitality of the short story

‘What are words?’: Symbolism and romance in Agatha Christie’s short stories ‘Within a Wall’, ‘The House of Dreams’ and ‘The Lonely God’

Literary form, hierarchies and the meeting of two plots in Patrick Gale’s ‘A Slight Chill’

‘So that’s the tale’: A sequence of vignettes on caring and chronic illness

Telling true ghost stories

Ghosted subjectivities in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’

Purple hats and threatened Whiteness in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’