Writing short stories presents a unique challenge, requiring a careful balance of creativity, structure, and brevity. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), writers now have access to tools ...

Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

Wichita State’s fall installment of the Writing Reading Now series welcomed novelist and short story writer Christy Hodgen ...

In addition to his short story collections, Moffett released his debut novel, “Only Son,” in 2025. The novel follows a man who, while struggling to connect with his son, retraces his father’s past ...

Two Ohio high school students will soon see their work in print after earning spots in a national writing anthology. Sophomore Gracie Higgins and freshman Cameron Minor, members of the school’s Ink ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...

Stephen King is out with a new collection of short stories. As you might expect from the reigning King of Horror, some are terrifying. Some are creepy. Others are laugh-out-loud funny. And one of them ...

In this era of artificial intelligence, who can compose a better beach read for the vacationing masses? The beloved fiction writer Curtis Sittenfeld … or ChatGPT? Listen as Ms. Sittenfeld sits down ...

For the past couple months, I've had vivid dreams that linger into the following day about a mashup of various things -- ...