Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The ...

Since we launched the reimagined Sunday StarNews in December 2024, we’ve been publishing a weekly inspirational story. Renee Spencer, our community engagement editor, has written the vast majority of ...

In her two novels, Virginia Pye wrote about China, but things are different with her short story collection. The nine tales in “Shelf Life of Happiness” are all set in the modern-day United States, ...

On June 25, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize hosted its annual online reveal of its overall winner, from among the five regional winners: from Uganda, Joshua Lubwama’s “Mothers Not Appearing In ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Of the countless short stories Stephen King has written, classics like "Survivor Type," "The Jaunt," and "Quitters, Inc." are ...