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Short Story Classics: The Best From The Masters Of The Genre
Includes stories by Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Herman Melville.
www.geocities.com/short_stories_page
Elements of the Short Story
From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Lesson plans for the study of reading and writing short stories.
www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html
English Server Fiction: Short Fiction
Collection of classic and modern short stories.
english-server.hss.cmu.edu/fiction/short.html
Literature: What Makes A Good Short Story?
Learn about the elements of a good short story using A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell as a case study.
www.learner.org/interactives/literature
ClassicReader.com: Short Stories
Online collection of short stories by a variety of authors.
www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.6
U.K. Fifty Word Fiction
The original site that inspired the popular blog featuring stories of 50 words or less only.
tangents.co.uk/50words
Twenty Great American Short Stories
Collection of online texts, featuring short fiction by a number of classic authors.
www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML
Storybites
Online reviews of classic and modern short stories.
www.storybites.com
The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology
Presents a timeline of short fiction in America.
titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/sschron.html
Short Story Group
Noncommercial online writing and critique group.
www.shortstorygroup.com
Fast Fictions
Writer Kevin Spenst crafts short stories based on illustrations contributed by readers.
fastfictions.blogspot.com
Ficlets [read review]
Sharing shorter than short stories with the world.
ficlets.com
Fifty Word Fiction [read review]
Submit a short-short story of 50 words and watch it appear on the screen, as if by magic.
fiftywordfiction.blogspot.com
O. Henry Awards@
Learn about the O. Henry Awards, an annual prize given to short stories of exceptional merit. Sites include competition info, list of winners, and FAQs on the award named after the American short story writer, O. Henry.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Awards/O__Henry_Awards
Premchand, Munshi (1880-1936)@
Learn about Munshi Premchand, one of the greatest authors of the 20th century Hindi and Urdu literature. Sites offer biography, short stories, novels, films and TV serials based on his books, and trivia about the literary doyen who used the common man's dialect for story-telling.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Literary_Fiction/Premchand__Munshi__1880_1936_
short-stories.co.uk [read review]
Online library of classic short stories and modern writing, with monthly features and additions.
www.short-stories.co.uk
Zoetrope: All-Story [read review]
Short story magazine, founded by Francis Ford Coppola, and dedicated to finding and publishing new voices in short fiction.
www.all-story.com

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