(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown ...

When I suggested six-word stories on climate change back in February, who knew we’d have another immediate crisis on our hands — the coronavirus pandemic (well, some politicians knew bu… ...

The case for Hemingway does not get stronger from there. As O’Toole documents, the precursor to the story seems to be a 1921 newspaper column by Roy K. Moulton, who “printed a brief note that ...

As a Time Traveller, the Doctor reveals he met Hemingway at some point and says he challenged Hemingway to a short story contest. In real life, the six-word short story that Hemingway claims to ...

Save the short story as an Adobe PDF or a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) with the Title of Story in the file name. (N.B. if the short story has already been published you can submit a ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...