Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Czech novelist and one of the most prominent short story writers of the early 20th ... The Metamorphosis is the best place to start. This novella tells the story of ...