Writing short stories presents a unique challenge, requiring a careful balance of creativity, structure, and brevity. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), writers now have access to tools ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Author Alice Munro at home in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, 1994. Senior Editor Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who perfected the art of the contemporary short story, died on Monday, ...