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Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?">Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver: <BRWho Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?">

Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?">Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?

Or, Who We [Should] Talk About When We Talk About Realism

By Julien C. Levy | April 23, 2025

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”

By Sally Rooney | April 8, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

Arielle Zibrak Explores the Diverse Literary Landscape of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Female Writers in the United States

By Arielle Zibrak | March 19, 2025

“I Still Haven’t Told the Story I Meant to Tell”

“I Still Haven’t Told the Story I Meant to Tell”

Clancy Martin

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 4, 2022

Read the short story that won this year’s Moth Short Story Prize.

Read the short story that won this year’s Moth Short Story Prize.

By Walker Caplan | September 7, 2021

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Read the story that just won the biggest short story prize in the world.

By Walker Caplan | July 8, 2021

Here are the dark and twisty nominees for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards.

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The Best Short Stories 2021">Announcing the The Best Short Stories 2021

By Literary Hub | April 20, 2021

On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

Dinty W. Moore Traces the Growth (Contraction?) of a Genre

By Dinty W. Moore | November 16, 2020

A Way to Beat Mortality

A Way to Beat Mortality

New Fiction by Shelly Oria, in Honor of Jaime Clarke's Charlie Martens Trilogy

By Shelly Oria | October 19, 2020

Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Read Five of the Winning Stories

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2019

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

On Selecting This Year's 20 Best American Short Stories

By Roxane Gay | October 3, 2018

Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg

Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg

"I Never Both Think and Write—I’m Like the Gerald Ford of Fiction Writers"

By Drew Johnson | September 25, 2018

Announcing the 2018 O. Henry Prize Stories

Announcing the 2018 O. Henry Prize Stories

Read Four of the Winning Stories

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2018

France's Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America

France's Beloved Short Story Dispensers Are Coming to America

Press a Button, Read a Very Short Story

By Matt Grant | April 2, 2018

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