Short story
Lost and found
Russell Banks's story has its origins in an image of a middle-aged businessman in a hotel room, about to commit adultery with an attractive, slightly younger woman
Is 2013 the year of the short story?
Is Alice Munro's Nobel Prize victory the final acknowledgment of the return of the short story? To celebrate here are some Prospect short fiction highlights
Little plastic shipwreck
Death of a crowd-pleaser
Tamara’s baby
A short story by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
What a difference a decade makes
Ten years ago the American short story was in decline. Now it is once again a vital genre
African jewels
A timely anthology of short stories reveals the strength of contemporary African fiction—and, writes Ruth Franklin, the growth of globalised, “post-national” literature
Franco-British Council Short Story Prize
Earlier this month an expert panel awarded the annual Prospect/Franco-British Council prize for a short story inspired by France. The winning stories are reproduced below
Underground
A story from Stuart Evers's debut collection, Ten Stories About Smoking
The write stuff
Creative writing courses once suffered a similar reputation to media studies. But as their alumni start to swell the ranks of the literary elite, this is changing
