Bharath Kumar, whose short story ‘Thambi, Thambi’ was selected for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, says he isn’t thinking of writing a novel anytime soon. He wants to focus on building his ...

English Short Story Exemplar: WAGOLL is a handy teaching resource for the English classroom. It is a 2-page short story, under 1,000 words in length, written with a secondary school audience in mind.

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...