Georgia Behrens profiles the star of our upcoming panel, “The Short Story”: Bronwyn Mehan Boogie-board enthusiast, ukulele student and crossword connoisseur Bronwyn Mehan is a woman of many talents. She reads, she writes and she edits. She blogs, she tweets, she road tests “software for novelists”. And, most importantly for our purposes, she runs Spineless […]

Georgia Behrens writes about her salvation: the short story As anyone who has read a newspaper column in the last 10 years will know, citizens of the 21st century have a short attention span. Gone are the days, generic columnist bemoans, when we’ll settle down with a good book or literary journal for a few […]

Though they’re faster (to read) than a speeding bullet and have been written by many of literature’s greatest names, the short story is somewhat of a minority interest.In 2004, a UK Arts Council survey found that less than half of self-described “medium” readers “sometimes” picked up a book of short stories. Here at the NSW […]

Georgia Behrens leaps to the defence of the beleaguered short story. For too long, the short story has been condemned as the novel’s poorer, uglier, less-charismatic cousin. It has been thought of by many as the Mr Collins to the novel’s Mr Darcy: well intentioned, yes; entertaining, certainly- but altogether lacking the depth, devastating good […]