Short-story - Factbites

Short-story - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Short-story

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Short story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short stories have their origins in the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point, with parallels in oral story-telling traditions.
		Both of these books are composed of individual short stories (which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions) set within a larger narrative story (a frame story), although the frame tale device was not adopted by all writers.
		Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_story (1278 words)

	short story - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about short story
		He perfected a detached, observational style which is shared to some degree by Guy de Maupassant, for whom the short story presented an opportunity to capture one particularly illuminating or revealing moment in the lives of ordinary people.
		It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions.
		As this observation is pretty deep, I will illustrate it by the following short story.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Short+Story (452 words)

	SHORT STORY
		In the short story, the complication is usually introduced in the exposition, and the denouement and conclusion are combined.
		In a short story, the climax is the point at which the outcome of the story becomes inevitable.
		Compression does not necessarily mean that a good short story writer uses only details that move the action forward and contribute to the total effect of the story.
	www.guidanceassociates.com /shortstory.html (2613 words)

	Short Story
		Short Story is a college prepatory class that attempts to unite within the student both the analytical and creative aspects of literature.
		We will spend most every day reading and discussing at least one short story.
		Each student will write his own original short story.
	homepage.mac.com /mrs_wanlin/Education7.html (688 words)

	Short Story Writers - writers, poets critique group for short story writing and poetry with writing and poetry resources and exercises
		The Short Story Group is a small, friendly and free critique group devoted to the purpose of helping writers to refine and polish their writing skills through group interaction and critiquing.
		The Short Story Group is proud to annouce the formation of a poetry group.
		Short Story Group is also a meeting place for writers to exchange ideas or find help and inspiration.
	www.shortstorygroup.com (382 words)

	Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter S
		An essential ingredient of a short story is the recognizable change—for better or worse—that occurs in the main character or in his situation as a result of having solved his problem (or having recognized his failure or inability to do so).
		Edgar Allan Poe was the first to establish rules for the short story: his concept values unities of mood, time, space and action, and stipulates that a story reach for only one effect—an effect determined in advance by the author, and reflected in all events of the story and every word of the composition.
		The short story has existed for thousands of years; one of the earliest known short story collections is Tales of the Magicians, which originated in Egypt four to six thousand years ago.
	www.writersmarket.com /encyc/s.asp (14261 words)

	Radio National Short Story Home Page
		Short Story on Radio National, the best of classic and contemporary short fiction from Australian and world writers read by some of Australia's leading actors.
		He was a winner of The Age Short Story Competition in 1995 and was anthologised in Best Australian Stories in 2001.
		From 30 January 2005 you can hear two Short Stories each Sunday.
	abc.net.au /rn/arts/sstory (419 words)

	short story on Encyclopedia.com
		The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.
		The modern short story is said to have begun in the 19th cent.
		The minimalist short story: its definition, writers, and (small) heyday.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/shortsto.asp (1169 words)

	The Short Story
		- in the sense of a telling of a story with a beginning, middle and end - ceases to be dominant - the essence of short story is to portray the individual moment, scene, or person in isolation from the outside stream of life-
		short story peaks as a form in the mid 20
		(1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form, as is the French translation of
	www.sfu.ca /english/Gillies/engl207/shortsto.htm (417 words)

	Short Story Writing Tips - tips for writing short stories
		Each new character will bring a new dimension to the story, and for an effective short story too many diverse dimensions (or directions) will dilute the theme.
		There is no room for unnecessary expansion in a short story.
		Short Story Writing Tips - tips for writing short stories
	www.shortstorygroup.com /storytips.htm (231 words)

	Short Story resources at Author Network
		Characteristics of the Short Story - Characteristics of the Short Story.
		Other Voices - The following short stories are mostly contributed by readers who have decided to try their hand at writing their own story in this genre.
		Proper Manuscript Format - a professional science fiction writer explains how to format your short story for submission to an editor.
	www.author-network.com /sstories.html (733 words)

	83.03.09: Elements of the Short Story
		We believe that the study of setting in the short story not only enables the students to analyze the importance of this element to the whole but will allow them to reflect upon the importance of time and place in their own life and understand how it contributes to their own character development and conflicts.
		We believe the adolescent age of uncertainty to be an optimum time for students to utilize this stage in their development to understand the elements of the short story and use the insights gained from the analysis of such character development in the short story to better understand their own character and its development.
		There is not one scientist, mathematician, musician, artist, etc. that isn’t the main character in his or her own short story.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html (6906 words)

	short stories at east of the web
		The short story section of east of the web is a large online library of short stories with monthly features and additions.
		So if you are looking for a favorite short story from the classics, or want to keep up with the latest stories being published - click to enter short stories at east of the web.
		Summaries of every story are available and the site includes biographies of the authors (such as mark twain, oscar wilde, jack london and nathaniel hawthorne) and analysis.
	www.short-stories.co.uk (162 words)

	short story
		In one story we are going to read, "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner, the character of Abner, a violent and harsh man, is variously described as being like a wolf, a wasp, of having qualities like iron and tin and blood, as well as having a fondness for fire.
		A writer imagines a story to be happening in a place that is rooted in his or her mind.
		Although the particulars of your experience may be different from the details of the story, the general underlying truths behind the story may be just the connection that both you and the writer are seeking.
	www.fdg.aranea.de /faecher/ZK_Arb_Englisch/seite7.htm (3933 words)

	Way Ahead: SHORT STORY ACUMEN
		There are also more and more short story competitions every year (including the Way Ahead Annual Creative Writing Competition), many offering substantial cash prizes and publication of the winning stories.
		In this Department, which is designed to run side-by-side with the user’s own word processor, the writer is taken step by step through creating a short story of his or her own.
		It has been said that writing a brilliant short story can be more difficult than writing a novel.
	www.hsc-ltd.demon.co.uk /wayahead/ssa.html (464 words)

	Carve Magazine Contest Page
		The Fish Short Story Prize 2004 is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
		A Critique of a short story will be at least 250 words.
		The 2002 Raymond Carver Short Story Award at Carve Magazine:
	www.carvezine.com /contest.htm (1132 words)

	Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2.
		Story Bytes' very short stories offer a glimpse through this window into brief vignettes of life, often reflecting or revealing those things which make us human.
		Story Bytes - A monthly Ezine and weekly electronic mailing list presenting the Internet's (and the world's) shortest stories - fiction ranging from 2 to 2048 words.
		Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2.
	www.storybytes.com (129 words)

	Short-short Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers
		With each story, the recipient's subscription date information will also include a line, "Your subscription is a gift from...," reminding the recipient of your gift.
		For example, a flash fiction is a story of fewer than 750 words.
		Definitions are sometimes made by arbitrarily choosing a story length.
	www.shortshortshort.com (546 words)

	NPR : Librarian's Picks: Short Story Favorites
		Colwin, who died in 1992, was the author of five novels and three other short story collections.
		This is a collection of interlinked short stories, charting the amusing and slightly askew life of main character Charlotte Anne Byers.
		This isn't so much a collection of short stories as a distillation of meaning, a flurry of ideas in 56 chapters.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4868008 (655 words)

	What Is A Short Story?
		This is also the story where the girl does not tell the police what she knows because she jumps to the conclusion that her lover is the murderer.
		You should also establish the feel, or mood, of your story, so that the reader knows at once whether this is a funny, flip satire or a serious romance, whether it is farcical, melancholy, or tragic.
		The first page, or paragraph, of a Gothic differs enormously from the beginning of a Western, and neither could be mistaken for the first page of a romance, a fantasy, or a sword-and-sorcery adventure, all of which differ greatly from a story of hard science and technology or from a children's book.
	mzbworks.home.att.net /what.htm (1576 words)

	Short Story
		Short Story is published in the fall and spring under the aegis of the Association for Textual Studies.
		Short Story does not discourage fictions which are brief, innovative, or otherwise different from the mainstream traditional forms.
		Short Story aquires and retains exclusive rights to any submission upon its publication in the journal, but will generally grant permission for reprint in a collection of the author's works.
	www.uni.edu /english/shrtstry/shrtsty.html (669 words)

	The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology
		The Story Must Be Told: Short Narrtive Prose in the New English Literatures, 1986.
		The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story, 1963.
		l978 -- The Stories of John Cheever is published, wins the Pulitzer Prize; Singer wins the Nobel Prize for his life's work in the short story genre; Ann Beattie's New Yorker stories collected in Secrets and Surprises.
	titan.iwu.edu /~jplath/sschron.html (2063 words)

	Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Web Site
		Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, All Rights Reserved 2000 ©.
		This competition is dedicated to the craft of writing and awards $2,000 in cash prizes every year to top writers of short fiction.
		The contest was created in 1981 to support and encourage the efforts of writers who have not yet achieved major-market success.
	www.shortstorycompetition.com (109 words)

	Short Story Criticism
		Criticisms of works of major short story writers of all eras and nationalities.
		The Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre
		American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays -- on order
	library.scsu.ctstateu.edu /shstorycritbib.html (1473 words)

	Trollope Society Short Story Prize
		To encourage interest in his novels among young people, the Trollope Society has established an annual short story competition.
		The winner receives a cheque for £1,000 ($1,750 USD) and his or her story is published in the Society’s journal, Trollopiana.
		Anthony Trollope was, he confessed, thoroughly miserable and ‘always in disgrace’ at school, yet he became a much loved author.
	www.trollopestoryprize.org (192 words)

	Unit Overview, Short Story
		The short story is a very manageable segment of writing; therefore the quick progression that is possible with short story should keep the students interested.
		Been exposed to the elements of the short story.
		This unit also enhances students' analytical skills by identifying the various elements contained within the short story.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /more/LAShortStory_UnitOverview1112.htm (200 words)

	Site Map of The Crime Library
		A US Olympic skier is shot dead by his girlfriend.
		Tragic story of a man jailed for 15 years for crimes he didn't commit.
		When his wife died, the story of novelist Michael Peterson became all too real.
	www.crimelibrary.com /fiction (404 words)

	Learn more about Short story in the online encyclopedia.
		That is the eternal conundrum of the short story, and its longer prose brethren.
		Thus the modern short story was born from a combination of aesthetics and economics.
		Perhaps the first short story written in the English language, the entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 755 AD gives us a good idea of what the core purpose of a short story might be.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sh/short_story.html (404 words)

	Bliss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bliss (feeling) is a state of great joy or happiness.
		Bliss (station), a railway station 8 km from Prairie Creek, Alberta in Canada
		Bliss (1985 film), by Ray Lawrence, adapted from the novel by Peter Carey
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bliss (139 words)

	Short story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short stories have their origins in the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point, with parallels in oral story-telling traditions.
		Short stories date back to the oral story-telling traditions which produced such notable tales as Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey.
		Short stories are most often a form of fiction writing, with the most widely published form of short stories being genre fiction such as science fiction, horror fiction, detective fiction, and so on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_story (1247 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Short-story

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)