Lawrence author Amy Stuber has steadily published her short stories in magazines for years. Literary agents inquired, multiple manuscripts were sent out, but the book deal never came. Now, more than ...

Many authors are known for one or two books (if they are lucky). Others, however, penned hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

With a writing career spanning three decades, author Bill Gaythwaite was recognized this year with the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection A Place in the World: Stories (Univ. of Pittsburgh ...

A short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered by a pharmacist in Dublin in a newspaper published in 1890. Gibbet Hill is a gruesome tale about three kids that accost a man on the road.

Denver author Nick Arvin is filling 2026 with a story a week, delivered free straight to readers.

He was best known for a short pen name, “O. Henry.” The man behind the stories, William Sydney Porter, was a complicated character with a sharp imagination. Porter wrote hundreds of stories in his ...

During the Civil War, in Union-occupied Nashville, Tenn., soldiers were under assault from an enemy other than Confederate forces. The city's illicit prostitution industry had expanded greatly since ...

RABAT, 20th April, 2025 (WAM) -- Emirati and Moroccan authors emphasised the lasting influence and dynamic potential of the short story as both a guardian of cultural heritage and a fertile ground for ...