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Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice issue 1.2 This issue celebrates short story writing as a global activity. Kate Horsley’s article on storytelling workshops in Uganda’s refugee camps’, based on her own experience working with writers in East Africa, explores the power of storytelling as a response to traumatic experience and a means of transmitting cultural history, while Barbara Roche Rico explores the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the short stories of Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortíz Cofer’. Jacqueline Carr-Phillips uses a reading of A. S. Byatt’s ‘The Thing in the Forest’ to address the question of a long story’s qualitative ‘shortness’, while Dean Baldwin’s focuses on the marginalization of the short story genre, as evidenced by the growing discrimination seen in early twentieth-century British reviews of short stories, which were associated with formula writing for a magazine market as opposed to art. Ellie Piddington’s evaluation of Tennessee Williams’ short stories also looks at the short story as a marginalized form - Piddington argues for a re-evaluation of Williams’ stories, which tend to be regarded as preliminary sketches for the plays, but which nevertheless allow Williams to represent sexuality with a freedom not possible in the plays, which were censored for the stage. Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece ‘The Overcoat’ is the focus of Professor Charles E. May’s special selection of responses to an individual story: including a subversive reading of the story by Tatiana St-Louis, a contextual overview for non-Russian speakers or those new to the story from Victor Peppard, an account by Colin B. Harvey of the composition of his own story ‘The Stinker’ which picks up the story’s grotesque and supernatural aspects; and a tragi-comic micro-fiction, ‘Bag Lady’ by Anthony Rudolf. Stories included in this issue include Colette Paul’s ‘Real Life’, a tongue-in-cheek fictional account of the inadvertent lessons that may be learnt, the hard way, in a writing class. New fiction from Germany includes Maike Wetzel’s ‘Déjà Vu’, a deceptively simple tale, and ‘Belyed: A Fishy Story’. Also included in this issue is an interview with the Chinese-born writer, Yiyun Li, two book reviews, news of the Thresholds Short Story Forum, and forthcoming conferences. View the full contents online: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fict Short Fiction in Theory & Practice is published by Intellect: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=196/ > Principal Editor Ailsa Cox Edge Hill University [log in to unmask] Associate Editors Alison MacLeod, University of Chichester Alan Wall, University of Chester Call for Papers Short Fiction in Theory & Practice welcomes submissions which explore all aspects of short fiction from a practice-based perspective, including the poetics of short-story writing, adaptation, translation and the place of the short story in global culture. For further information, please visit the journal’s webpage: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=196/view,page=2/ With Best Wishes, Nicola --- Nicola Reisner | Journals Marketing A: Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Rd, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3JG, UK E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0)117 9589914 W: www.intellectbooks.co.uk Read our blog! http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/weblog/view-Weblog,name=News/ View our Journal catalogue http://issuu.com/intellectbooks/docs/journals_catalogue_2012?mode=window&vie wMode=doublePage View our Visual Arts Magazine http://issuu.com/intellectbooks/docs/visualarts?mode=window&viewMode=doubleP age -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------