Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp. The 77-year-old is the first author of literature in Kannada ...

US-based Guyanese writer Subraj Singh has won the Commonwealth Short ... to the story, Singh revealed, ‘“Margot’s Run’ is about a creature from Caribbean and Guyanese folklore called ...

May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by checking out one of these great Canadian short story collections. If you're also interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions ...

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance won a weekend auction for Drift, an unpublished short story by Ben Queen & Jason Shuman that has It! helmer Andy Muschietti attached to direct. Deadline hears that the project ...

Recent New Mexico State University grad Ethan Moore composed the new piece of music entirely based on a young girl’s short story. “It’s about a girl named Amaya, and she falls into this well ...

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist, revealed today, features 25 "relevant, vibrant and essential" unpublished stories selected from a record-breaking 7,920 entries. The stories ...

Writers Vincent Anioke, Trent Lewin, Dorian McNamara, Emi Sasagawa and Zeina Sleiman have made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist. The winner will be announced on April 17. They will ...

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, recently posted an AI-generated short story on X. In the post, Altman described how the story was generated by a “new model” which OpenAI has developed ...

Elton John’s 1972 hit “Rocket Man” might seem adequately melancholy on its own, but the short story that inspired it is even more devastating. As has always been the case with John ...

"Hellions" is a collection of 11 short stories set in various places and time periods, from a medieval convent to the modern-day rural South. As you make your way through the book there is no ...

The film blends horror with comedy, with some of the goriest, grizzliest scenes played for laughs, while the short story features the kind of menacing horror King’s work is known for.