We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

Short story collections offer the perfect medium for fiction writers to craft compelling, affecting narratives that simply may not warrant a full-length novel to explore the ideas. The short story ...

Long Story Short is a creative collaboration between BBC Writers; BBC Drama Commissioning ... so it is probably best to avoid these worlds and precincts for this brief. Young Dramas typically ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

Caldwell, a multi-award-winning writer from Belfast ... to celebrate those creating the very best short fiction in the UK.” The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was ...