Mindy Withrow

Shorts on the web

As you know, I’m a big fan of short fiction (still can’t believe I missed National Short Story Month!) and I recently mentioned I was compiling a list of links to places that celebrate the form and/or post stories in their entirety.  So without further ado, here’s what I’ve discovered in my browsing.

Dedicated sites/organizations:
Fifty-Two Stories (posting a new story a week for the whole year)
Story (news, reviews & free story downloads—including “Deep Blue Sea” by Peter Hobbs, whose novel The Short Day Dying is in my Top 10!) 
Save the Short Story (genre news & links to story writers and publishers) 
One Story (genre news & interviews plus a unique subscription)
The Short Review (reviews of story collections plus writer interviews)
DailyLit’s “Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer” (subscribe to read a few gems by emailed installments)

Interesting Articles:
Newsweek‘s “Don’t Sell the Short Story Short” (a quarrel with Stephen King)
The Guardian‘s ongoing series “A Brief Survey of the Short Story” (biographical highlights of genre masters)
The Daily Beast‘s “Year of the Short Story” (glimpses of collections new and forthcoming)
The New York Times‘ “In Praise of the American Short Story” (will it outlast even print media itself?)
The Millions’ “45 Favorite Short Story Collections” (results of a poll)

Anyone have any other links I should add?

09. July 2009 by Mindy
Categories: Resources, Your turn | 1 comment