Vanessa Gebbie  - Introduction Graham Mort  - Finding Form in Short Fiction Clare Wigfall  - ‘I Hear Voices’— Narrative voice, creating a fictive world, characterisation, openings and leaving room for the reader: An interview   Alison Macleod  - Writing and Risk-Taking Nuala Ni Chonchuir  - -Language and Style for short story writers and poets Chika Unigwe  - Setting Alex Keegan  - ‘24’: The Importance of Theme Lane Ashfeldt  - Building a world Catherine Smith  - Myth and magic: beyond ‘realism’ in the short story Adam Marek  - What my gland wants — originality in the short story Tobias Hill  - Character, characterisation, dialogue and language: An interview Sarah Salway  - Stealing Stories Elizabeth Baines  - True story — real story — good Fiction? Tania Hershman - Art Breathes from Containment: The Delights of the Shortest Fiction or The Very Short Story That Could David Gaffney  - Get shorty: the micro-fiction of Etgar Keret Marian Garvey On Intuition: writing into the void Elaine Chiew - Endings Paul Magrs  - Thoughts about writing fiction, at the end of term Vanessa Gebbie  - Leaving the door ajar on short story openings … Vanessa Gebbie  - Short story competitions: Hard work, persistence, luck and a bowl of fruit Linda Cracknell -  Balancing Act Jay Merill Supercharged Words Carys Davies  - ‘… before it disappears …’ David Grubb  - Dancing on glass Zoe King -  But what if your character won’t talk to you? Matthew Licht -  Iceberg Lettuce: Why I write, and a little bit of ‘how’ Contributors’ notes

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