This article focuses on creative writing workshops run online for NHS staff during 2020–21 organized through Lime, the Arts and Health Department of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). As the pandemic and lockdown hit in 2020, all Lime activity had to cease. Lime’s premises were reassigned for administrative staff and its staff redeployed. Using Arts Council England emergency funding, Lime demonstrated the need for creative outlets for stressed NHS staff and moved online with its participatory workshops. This work was piloted with creative writing workshops focusing on the short story; the workshops used writing techniques that would help participants focus on their mental well-being as NHS staff during one of the most stressful and exhausting periods of work for them. The article further explores the use of the short story in those creative writing workshops, examining the premise for the use of creative writing practices, the workshops themselves and the facilitator’s experience of running them, alongside the (anonymized) feedback of participants.
本文重点关注2020-21年期间由曼彻斯特大学NHS基金会信托基金(MFT)艺术与卫生部Lime组织的为NHS员工在线举办的创意写作研讨会。随着2020年大流行和封锁的到来，所有Lime活动都不得不停止。Lime的办公场所被重新分配给行政人员，员工也被重新部署。Lime利用英国艺术委员会(Arts Council England)的紧急资金，证明了为压力大的NHS员工寻找创造性出路的必要性，并通过参与式研讨会转移到了网上。这项工作以创意写作工作坊为试点，重点是短篇小说;这些研讨会使用了写作技巧，帮助参与者在工作压力最大、最疲惫的时期关注他们作为NHS员工的心理健康。本文进一步探讨了短篇小说在这些创意写作工作坊中的应用，考察了创意写作实践的前提、工作坊本身和主持人的运行经验，以及参与者的(匿名)反馈。
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The digital revolution has brought back to the fore questions about the health of the short story. Short fiction scholars have for some time now been considering the possibilities that post-book and online spaces might open for the short story form and its popularity among readers. Despite this, when Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story ‘Cat Person’ went viral late in 2017, critics of the genre paid virtually no attention to it. This article sets out to correct this on the premise that studying the ‘Cat Person’ phenomenon can help us refine our understanding of the behaviour and potential of short stories in digital spheres. It focuses, to explore this, on the fact that Roupenian’s text was received as an essay, rather than a short story, by many of its first readers, and accounts for this miscategorization in two different yet interlinked ways. First, it situates the piece in a tradition of women’s storytelling that has long been blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction. And second, it examines the reception of ‘Cat Person’ in the context of social media platforms that promote personal and reality-based modes of expression and communication. The article concludes by conceptualizing a connection between non-fictional interpretations of the story and its virality. Such link complicates accounts about the amenability of short fiction to online environments, suggesting that a story’s capacity to relinquish its identity as such and take on functions of the essay genre might play a key role in determining its performance online.
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Traditionally, the short story has been understood as almost synonymous with loneliness, characterized by theorists and writers like Frank O’Connor as the quintessential ‘lonely form’. Contemporary short story writer Diane Williams stands out for her idiosyncratic challenge to the conventions of short story structure, drawing deliberately on the partiality and contingency of the anecdote. Analysing the structure and style of Williams’s 2016 collection Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, this article explores how a turn to anecdotal structures might shift the short story form’s traditional polarity towards loneliness ‐ a particularly urgent question in an increasingly lonely culture.
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Review of: The Golden Age of British Short Stories: 1890‐1914, Philip Hensher (ed.) (2020)London: Penguin, 640 pp.,ISBN: 978-0-14199-220-4, h/bk, £25;ISBN 978-0-24143-431-4, p/bk, £12.99
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Award-winning fiction writer Kirsty Gunn reflects on the current climate of short-story publishing in the United Kingdom, and considers the way the rhetoric of sickness and health has become attached to discussions of the form.
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When I read scholar Tia-Monique Uzor’s recent tweet about how she had been thinking about grieving as a practice and how to hold spaces for collective grief and to make room for grief over seemingly small things, I realized that this was what I had been doing when writing fiction that was obliquely about my sister’s death. The collective grief I had sought was not the public ritual of the funeral, but the asynchronous sharing of short fiction. I needed to grieve not only the big, obvious losses of my sister and way of life during COVID-19 but also all the ‘seemingly small things’ that come together to constitute my experiences of loss. This article is an attempt to reflect on that process and how complex narrative structures can provide a tool for expressing complex emotions and experiences. It considers grief as a multifarious topic and writing techniques for conveying that multiplicity. Finally, it explores technology, randomization and text generation as tools which further expand writers’ expressive capabilities.
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An interview with leading British fiction-writer Irenosen Okojie, transcribed and edited following a Zoom conversation with Lucy Dawes Durneen in December 2021 in Cambridge. It also includes questions from creative writing students. Okojie discusses her own practice as short story writer, including the choice of titles and short story endings, and issues of representation facing Black writers, especially in relation to female characters. She also discusses her non-fiction as a method of dealing with trauma and feelings of vulnerability.
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A short story following a young woman named Bernadette and her stay at a mental hospital in Paris.
这是一部短篇小说，讲述了一位名叫伯纳黛特的年轻女子和她在巴黎一家精神病院的经历。
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American author Willa C. Richards’s short story ‘Failure to Thrive’ (2019) thematizes physical, mental and emotional health by centring a young and presumably White American couple and their newborn. The couple have trouble communicating with each other, and crucial pieces of information are withheld from the reader as well. At the same time, numerous references to different types of violence emerge as markers of the maternal throughout the story to such an extent that the maternal body becomes the site not only of difference and unknowability but of violence as well. I anchor my analysis in motherhood studies and argue that motherhood is the discursive lens through which interlocking issues of embodiment, dehumanizing medical practices and diverse types of violence are exposed in ‘Failure to Thrive’. While attending to the narrative design of the story, I demonstrate how the ailing mother becomes a figure on whom the tropes of violence and incommunicability as well as the wide-reaching implications of ill health are mapped out.
美国作家薇拉·理查兹(Willa C. Richards)的短篇小说《茁壮成长的失败》(2019)以一对年轻的美国白人夫妇和他们的新生儿为中心，以身体、心理和情感健康为主题。这对夫妇彼此沟通困难，关键信息也对读者隐瞒了。与此同时，许多不同类型的暴力作为母亲的标志出现在整个故事中，以至于母亲的身体不仅成为差异和不可知的场所，也成为暴力的场所。我将我的分析立足于母性研究，并认为母性是一个话语镜头，通过它，在“未能茁壮成长”中暴露了体现、非人性化的医疗实践和各种类型的暴力等连锁问题。在参与故事的叙事设计时，我展示了生病的母亲如何成为一个人物，暴力和不可沟通的比喻以及疾病的广泛影响都被映射出来。
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{"title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, Todd Martin (ed.) (2021)","authors":"P. March-Russell","doi":"10.1386/fict_00054_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00054_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, Todd Martin (ed.) (2021)London: Bloomsbury Academic, 534 pp.,ISBN 978-1-35011-144-8, h/bk, £130.00","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88882093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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