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More book review web sites, articles and blogs,
contests for short story collection & chapbooks


NEW!Short Story Collections forthcoming in 2008

Reviews - short story collections

BellaOnline

BookFox

BookLoversWiki

The Fix

LauraHird.com

Pulp.net 

ReadingWoman 

TheShortStory.org

Tangent Online 

Tim Love

University Libraries: Short Story Reviews and Criticism


Reviews - books (general) and literary magazines

Bookslut 

Bookmunch 

Chroma

Contrary

Critical Compendium (compiles reviews and podcasts  from many sources)

Fringe Magazine

The Guardian: Book Reviews

Luna Park Literary Magazine Reviews

The New York Times Books

NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews

Popmatters

Reviews of Books 

Robin Mizell's Treated & Released

The Small Press Review

The Times

Vulpes Libris


Articles and Blog Posts on Short Fiction

Short Story: Theory and Practice  (Comma Press) 

Where the Readers Are (The Quarterly Conversation, March 2008)

The Story's Signature Space of Tethere Ferocity (Kate's Book Blog, Feb 27, 2008)

Critical Condition (Prospect, Feb 2008) 

Short Stories and the Cell Phone: An Interview with writer Barry Yourgrau (The Millions, Feb 24, 2008)

45 Favourite Short Story Collections (The Millions, Feb 22, 2008)

Their Master's Voice: The Rise and Rise of Brand McSweeney's  (The Sunday Times, Feb 3rd 3008)

A Single to Victoria and a Free Short Story, Please (The Observer, Jan 27 2008)

James Joyce's Araby (Canadian Writers Collective Blog, Jan 9 2008)

The orang-utan did it ( Guardian Unlimited Books, Nov 17, 2007)

The Story as One-Liner  (Guardian Arts Blog, Nov 9, 2007)

Short Story Becomes HBO Feature Film (New Pages Blog, Nov 15, 2007)

High-wire performers (Guardian Unlimited Books, Nov 3, 2007)

Minimalising Raymond Carver (Guardian Books Blog, Dec 20, 2007)

Less said the Better  (Guardian Books Blog, Oct 22, 2007)

Stephen King: What Ails the Short Story? (NY Times, Sept 30, 2007)

Jean Thompson responds to King's "What Ails the Short Story? (Maud Newton's Blog Oct 12, 2007)

Story Thoughts: A Writer's View by Clare Wigfall  (Story, July 2007)

Julian Gough on Short Stories and winning the National Short Story Prize (FictionBitch blog May 4, 2007)

Triumph of Brevity (Guardian Books Blog, Dec 6 2006)

Flashes on the Meridian: Dazzled by Flash Fiction (WritingWorld.com, 2002)


Competitions and Awards for Short Story Collections

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction (annual deadline February)

bluechrome Short Story Collection Award (deadline Dec 1st 2007) 

Diagram Chapbook contest (deadline April 1st 2008)

NEW Drue Heinz  Literature Prize (deadline June 30th 2008)

NEW Elixir  Press Fiction Award (deadline May 31st 2008)

the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (annual deadline May 31st)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (annual deadline march 31st) 

Gertrude Press Chapbook contest (Feb 15, 2008)

The Iowa Short Fiction Award (annual deadline Sept 30)

The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for by an American Woman (Feb 1, 2008)

The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (US only) 

Noemi Press Chapbook Award (Feb 15 2008) 

Prairie Schooner Book Series Competition (Jan 15 - March 15 2008) 

Ohio State University Press (Jan 31 2008)

The Rogers Writers Trust (Canadian only)

The Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canadian only)

The G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction (annual deadline January)

NEWSpokane Prize for Short Fiction (March 1st - May 15th 2008)

The Story Prize

The Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction (annual deadline Sept 1) 

William Saroyan International Prize for writing (31 Jan 2008)