Opportunities for long short stories?
In 2004 and 2005, our sister website, The Write Stuff, held competitions for the longer short story (5,000 to 10,000 words). [Archival information].
In 2004 and 2005, our sister website, The Write Stuff, held competitions for the longer short story (5,000 to 10,000 words). [Archival information].
“I remembered reading once that in answer to a question from one of his creative writing students about the optimum length of a story, American writer Raymond Carver replied that a story was as long as it had to be …”
Geoff Dean, in an article on the plight of the short story, Are Aussie short story writers an endangered species?
online, at The Write Stuff.