Stephen King doesn’t do plotting. “Plot is,” he decreed in his memoir On Writing, “the good writer’s last resort and the ...

Ostlund continues to embrace compassion in her writing: "I have a fondness for my characters, and when I come to the writing, a certain compassion toward them. And when I'm writing the pieces or ...

Two beloved Barrington traditions, McGonigal’s Pub and Boloney’s Sandwich Shop, are being revived at a new venue, Long Story Short Pub & Eatery, at 113 E. Main St. It is a joint venture of ...

Etobicoke’s Jessica Wareing has taken the grand prize in the Toronto Star’s 47th annual short story contest with a narrative capturing the troubling reality of unaccepting parents who use ...

Canadian writers Chanel Sutherland and Damhnait Monaghan are among the 25 writers shortlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the best piece of ...

a high school English teacher posted a short story to Reddit, a tale with Gone Girl-worthy twists and turns. Now, Joe Cote is in the midst of his own real-life plot twist. The Massachusetts-based ...

When you write a short story, the lack of constraints and parameters can feel freeing until you realize the open playground is full of craters, ones you can fall into and then never emerge.

Now, for the first time ever, readers will finally have the chance to read eight of Lee’s early short stories, along with another eight nonfiction pieces previously published elsewhere ...

While it can't replicate imagination, Sudowrite can be useful for compiling new story additions or enhancing an existing idea. This is helpful in a world where as of 2024, 70,000 artificial ...