Reflections on Writing Short Stories

M Y Alam’s paper ‘Identity politics and the conditions of production: Reflections on writing Short Stories’, which he recently presented at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English, has been published on route-online.com Here is a small extract.

Humty Dumpty – Discuss

Professor of the absurd Peter Mortimer discusses the social and political resonance of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty in this satirical paper presented at an impromptu fringe session of the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English.

Margaret Atwood – Our Cat Enters Heaven

Margaret Atwood reads her story ‘Our Cat Enters Heaven’ at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English which took place in Atwood’s home town of Toronto.