Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edwidge Danticat has won this year’s PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. It’s a lifetime lifetime achievement ...

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

Editor’s Note: A Southerner born in Jackson, Mississippi, and educated at the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia, EUDORA WELTY is one of the most versatile ...

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Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...

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

The Dallas Morning News and public safety reporter Maggie Prosser were honored as finalist (Allen Outlet Mall shooting coverage) and winner (short form writing) in the Poynter Journalism Prizes.

THE plot of a short story in many instances is quite openly a projection of character. In a highly specialized instance, but a good example, the whole series of ghostly events in The Turn of the Screw ...