The first-place stories of the 30th Annual Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest all succeed on that score. Handprints in paint transform from borderline vandalism to traces of past existences.

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world, we asked 29 authors to write new short stories inspired by the moment. We were inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” written as the ...

five-line poems inspired and shaped by your ZIP code. From member station WLRN, reporter Kate Payne brings us one poet's story of where and who she comes from. KATE PAYNE, BYLINE: Luz Rossy never ...

Writers Kate Gunn, Miriam Ho Nga Wai, Zilla Jones, Kailash Srinivasan and Carley Thorne have made the 2024 CBC Short ... five finalists had their work published on CBC Books. You can read their ...

All five finalists had their work published on ... Her laptop is littered with poems, short stories and the corpses of abandoned novels. As she sheds her perfectionist tendencies, she hopes ...