Entries are now being accepted for the 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. The Award, now in its ...

Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who lent mythic proportions to the lives of ordinary people from small, rural towns like those in the Ontario countryside where she spent most of her life, ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

In this exclusive interview from the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026, we speak with celebrated author and co-author of two ...

We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers.

Radio 1's Life Hacks' Lauren Layfield is joined by incredible judging panel for the 2026 BBC Young Writers’ Award with ...

The prestigious awards, supported by Cambridge University, are celebrating their 21st anniversary with judges including Saba Sams, David Almond & Lily Fontaine ...

Alice Munro, the short-story writer and Nobel prize winner known as “the Canadian Chekhov”, has died aged 92. She had suffered from dementia for more than a decade. Munro died at her care home in ...

Alice Munro, the Nobel Literature Prize winner best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings, has died in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92. The news was ...

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A ...