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		MacLaverty, Bernard short story writer, novelist & filmwriter
		MacMahon, Bryan short story writer, novelist and dramatist
		Mathews, Aidan poet, short story writer, playwright and novelist
	www.irishwriters-online.com /listmn.html (49 words)

	Short Story - MSN Encarta
		Short Story, fictional work depicting one character’s inner conflict or conflict with others, usually having one thematic focus.
		The short story form ranges from “short shorts,” which run in length from a sentence to four pages, to novellas that can easily be 100 pages long and exhibit characteristics of both the short story and the novel.
		The art of the short story employs the techniques of point of view, style, plot and structure, and a wide range of devices that stimulate emotional, imaginative, and intellectual responses in the reader.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559304/Short_Story.html (927 words)

	Haruki Murakami Short Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Short short story - Short short stories, or vignettes are a variation on the short story genre with an arbitrary word limit such as 1,500 or 500 words.
		List of Irish short story writers - This is a list of short story writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship.
		Short stories tend to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the modern sense of this term) and novels.
	ma83.gpnotp.com /harukimurakamishortstory.html (852 words)

	Irish Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From the older tradition, Irish writers in English have inherited a sense of wonder in the face of nature, a narrative style that tends towards the deliberately exaggerated or absurd, a keen sense of the power of satire.
		Although the documented history of Irish theatre began at least as early as 1601, the earliest Irish dramatists of note were William Congreve, one of the most interesting writers of Restoration comedies, and Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who were two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century.
		However, it was in the last decade of the century that the Irish theatre finally came of age with the emergence of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde and the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre.
	www.irishpast.com /Irish_literature.html (1207 words)

	List of Irish short story writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of short story writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship.
		Short story writers whose work is in Irish are included.
		A brief outline of the history of Irish fiction is also available.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Irish_short_story_writers (100 words)

	Colby \| Course Catalogue \| English
		Writers to be discussed include established representatives of the "Spirit of the Age," as well as voices whose significance has been overlooked or underrated, such as Hemans, Clare, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
		As a writer, teacher, and critic, Toni Morrison has positioned her work at the crossroads of current cultural criticism, insisting that we, her readers, look unflinchingly at issues that, in the African American vernacular, "worry" all of her writing-brutality, wholeness, love, community, cultural and political marginalization, and history.
		The novels and stories of this committed Jewish writer, who names his Jewish themes both clearly and abstractly, but wrote in German, have become central texts of the Western canon, telling the story of a society that is brutally divided, but which tells its citizens they are equal and whole (The Castle).
	www.colby.edu /catalogue/0102/listing/ENlist.shtml (4394 words)

	The Dead (short story) Summary
		The fiction of the Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941) is characterized by experiments with language, symbolism, and use of the narrative techniques of interior monologue and stream of consciousness.
		Few writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitment.
		It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the English language.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Dead_(short_story) (566 words)

	Authors on the Web - Irish Author Roundtable
		The Irish writers that have influenced me most are Flann O'Brien --- dark, dark humour, entertaining surrealism and gorgeous, quirky use of language.
		Perhaps the Irish response over many generations to that imposition was to introduce traditional Gaelic modes of expression into English, creating a fresh and invigorating Anglo-Irish, and thus outdoing the English in their own tongue.
		The old questions of "who are we," and "why are we here?" What is wonderful about the great Irish writers is their playfulness with language, their tongue-in-cheek examination of themselves and others, mixed slyly with sober, intelligent observation.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/0303-irish/irish-q4.asp (2229 words)

	NPR : Great American Writers and Their Cocktails
		In the early 1800s, doctors used the word julep to describe "a kind of liquid medicine." These were remedies in which leaves from the mentha family were used to soften the taste of the medication.
		At Yaddo, the famous writers' colony, she began with a beer at the typewriter just after breakfast, then moved on to her "sonnie boy," and finished with cocktails in the evening.
		There are stories about how they jumped into the fountain at the Plaza Hotel, boiled party guests' watches in tomato soup, stripped at the Follies.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6624971 (2020 words)

	The Short Story
		Irish writers have addressed a variety of themes: some are humorous, others portray Irish rural life, the country's turbulent and tragic history of colonization, emigration, and the "Troubles" of the last 40 years, while others examine universal human experiences.
		Students will learn the principles of storytelling, the history of the short story, the major short story writers in Ireland, their major influences, and background on Irish history, geography, culture, and politics.
		The exam will be graded on the sophistication and thoroughness of your answers, the number of examples from the stories, your ability to show that you are familiar with and have an understanding of the stories, as well as your writing skills.
	www.de2.psu.edu /Programs/trips2002/Ireland02/Engl_184.html (815 words)

	Short story Summary
		A short story is a form of short fictional narrative prose.
		In the following excerpt, Harris catalogues the prominent short story writers of the period 1830 to 1880, summarizing their representative works, and concludes with an overview of English and Irish Aesthetic fiction of the late nineteenth century.
		A variety of elements in a short story can enable the reader to enjoy reading it, whether it is plot, character, style or structure, or level of familiarity with or vicariousness through the story.
	www.bookrags.com /Short_story (258 words)

	Interviews with Women Writers
		ED: I’ll be introducing a book of short stories I’m working on which are all short fictions based on real historical incidents in the lives of women of the British isles from the 1320s to 1901.
		And those academic writers who are considered to be great writers, very often what you find is they do break [the rule], that they manage to bring their emotions in to their writing.
		Mary Lavin would represented the short story because, again, there aren’t that many but she certainly has a huge international and Irish reputation, and it’s a good time to be putting her back up there.
	www.tallgirlshorts.net /marymary/werrc.html (8511 words)

	Authors on the Web - 2002 Irish Author Roundtable
		Historically, the Irish were deprived of political and social autonomy, of education, of language.
		Writers are an integral part of Irish culture not separate from it. Growing up obviously the stories of Oscar Wilde would have had an influence alongside the short stories of people like Frank O'Connor and Liam O' Flaherty.
		Writers have been widely admired from the days of traveling bards in Ireland, which remains a place where books and writing matter.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/0203-irish/irish-q6.asp (2357 words)

	List 0
		O’Connor, Frank stort-story writer, novelist, autobiographer and critic
		O’Faoláin, Sean short story writer, novelist, editor and biographer
		O’Loughlin, Michael poet, short story writer and novelist
	www.irishwriters-online.com /listo.html (50 words)

	2006 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients \| Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
		Among the 2006 recipients are a Navajo poet, a Chinese-born novelist, a Korean-American poet, an Armenian-American novelist, the daughter of an immigrant farm worker in California, and the son of an Irish dairy farmer.
		And it is evident that the short story is as strong and vital as ever.
		Whiting Writers’ Awards candidates are proposed by about a hundred anonymous nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations give them knowledge about individuals of extraordinary talent.
	www.whitingfoundation.org /whiting_2006.html (785 words)

	Part of His Story
		Part of His Story is a powerful treatment of the destinies of men and women confronting a global epidemic, and the promise of renewal to be found in the context of tragic losses.
		“Writers who contend with the impact of AIDS face a terrible dilemma.
		Part of His Story is packed with literati and filled with the sorrow of loss, yet it avoids pretense and flowery writing.
	www.midlist.org /showbook.cfm?booknum=296 (466 words)

	Guide to Literary Research: General Reference
		Entries are arranged by writer and include biographical data, lists of primary works and critical studies, and a critical overview of the writer's work.
		Each author entry includes a short biography, list of achievements, career overview, description and analysis of the author's best known works and a bibliography of secondary sources for further study.
		This is a bibliography of criticism from 1900-1998 of short stories published since 1800.
	www.arc.losrios.edu /~library/pathfinders/litpage/gen.htm (1401 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		Stories may be in the vein of Hesse, Murdock, Dostoevsky, Joyce, or Dickens.
		Writers’ retreats in Provence and the Rhone valley.
		Please E-mail 3 poems, or (short) story and brief bio to: alivelyunderstandablespirit@msn.com.
	www.pw.org /mag/classifieds.htm (8081 words)

	places for writers: Calls
		Interested writers are invited to send their resume and writing samples to dragonhillpublishing@yahoo.ca.
		Crow Toes Quarterly, a new children's literature magazine based in Vancouver, is currently accepting short stories and artwork for its premiere issue due to be released in January 2007.
		Humorous short stories (300 words or less) about parenting or family life are being accepted for monthly Motherwise Mug Shot contest.
	www.placesforwriters.com /archives/calls/index.html (2005 words)

	2004 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients \| Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
		She is best known for her novels and short stories, including The Country Girls Trilogy, A Fanatic Heart, and, most recently, In The Forest.
		He is the author of a short story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus (Vintage, 1999) and the novel, The Ecstatic (Crown, 2002).
		Whiting Writers’ Awards candidates are proposed by about a hundred nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations give them knowledge about individuals of extraordinary talent.
	www.whitingfoundation.org /whiting_2004.html (781 words)

	Short Story Criticism
		Arranged alphabetically by title, each includes a list of main characters, a synopsis of the story, themes and meanings of the story and comments on the style and techniques of the author.
		Criticisms of works of major short story writers of all eras and nationalities.
		Contains interpretations of short stories found in books and periodicals.
	library.scsu.ctstateu.edu /shstorycritbib.html (1467 words)

	Amazon.com: A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English: Books: Erin Fallon,R. C. Feddersen,James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story begins with 11 essays on broad topics such as "The American Short Story, 1807-1900," "The African American Short Story," and "American Short Stories of the Holocaust." After the general essays, some 113 author essays are arranged alphabetically, from Adams, Alice to Yezierska, Anzia.
		While the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years, and especially in recent decades.
		And in many cases, their short stories exhibit a greater degree of coherence and integrity than their longer works.
	www.amazon.com /Readers-Companion-Short-Story-English/dp/0313291047 (1210 words)

	TG4 - Irish language television channel - Teilifis Gaeilge - Commissioning - Splanc!
		Novelists, short-story writers, poets, composers of agallaimh beirte, lúibíní, stage and screen-writers should all be included.
		The series is open to creative interpretation and might for instance take a geographical journey throughout Ireland to feature those writing in the Irish language in the different regions; or two or more writers could be juxtaposed in each episode; publishers could also feature, as could booksellers and readers.
		Writers, Directors, Publishers, Production Companies are welcome and anyone considering applying for funding is particularly encouraged to attend.
	www.tg4.ie /Bearla/Fais/spla.htm (566 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Visiting Writers Series, Spring 2000
		The list includes writers as geographically and stylistically diverse as Alice McDermott, Thomas Kenneally, Gish Jen, Michael Ondaatje and Elmore Leonard.
		Lydia Davis - is a short story writer, novelist and translator and the author of the short-story collection Almost No Memory (1997), The End of the Story (FSG, 1995), Break It Down (FSG, 1986), which won the Whiting Writers Award, Story and Other Stories (1983), and Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (1981).
		Jayne Anne Phillips - is a fiction writer and author most recently of MotherKind (scheduled for release on Mother's Day 2000) about a woman whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/vws7.html (1401 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Visiting Writers Series, Fall 1999
		Australian novelist and nonfiction writer, is the author most recently of The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World (1999), the story of how the Irish came to be dispersed all over the world.
		- short story writer and novelist, has received critical acclaim for her depiction of the generation of Americas who grew up in the 60s.
		She has published six collections of short stories including Park City (1998), What Was Mine (1991), and The Burning House (1982), and six novels including My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997), Another You (1995), Picturing Will (1990), and Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976).
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/vws6.html (1092 words)

	Short Stories
		A wonderful collection of short stories some that have been printed in other places and some that have never been published.
		A wonderful collection of Morgan's special short stories, they will make you think twice.
		This is a simple listing of all of Morgan's works.
	home.columbus.rr.com /tony777/shortstories.htm (278 words)

	Sound & Spirit: Alphabetical Programs Listing
		Experience the Biblical story of Esther, juxtaposed with the stories of four modern characters: Rita, a New York wife, defies her husband...
		Music and poetry, myths and stories from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia combine to show what it is to have and to be a father.
		The story of Abraham and Isaac is the story of a father willing to sacrifice his own son if he must.
	www.wgbh.org /pages/pri/spirit/alphabetical.html (7879 words)

	Etude \| Autumn 2005 \| Q&A - Literary Writers
		If brilliant writers are inspired by reading, then perhaps all of us can find inspiration in what they read.
		As to fiction writers whose work I’ve loved, I think Tolstoy and Chekhov are at the top of the list.
		And I like certain modern writers who have Tolstoy’s ambition to interweave the social fabric of a time and place with personal drama: Pat Barker on World War I, Paul Scott on the last days of the British in India, E. Doctorow on American life.
	etude.uoregon.edu /autumn2005/litwriters/index.html (996 words)

	Salem Press
		Biographical sketches and career analyses of 104 of the best-known English, Scottish, and Irish writers.
		From slave narratives to abolitionist tracts, from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the Black Arts movement of the 1960's and 1970's, African American writers have always influenced literature in the United States.
		Notable African American Writers compiles approximately 80 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, and writers of nonfiction from colonial America to today.
	salempress.com /store/samples/notable_african/notable_african.htm (512 words)

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