Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks ... and published journalism, short stories and poems while working as a teacher ...

Curtis Sittenfeld’s last novel was the bestselling “Romantic Comedy.” That partly ironic title could apply to the “Eligible” ...

The best way to understand what is required in short story writing is to read short stories by different authors. There are many good anthologies of short stories available in libraries or bookshops.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a single parent, and my kids' grandfather (my father-in-law) has offered to watch them at his house once a week. I would love to take him up on it because it would help me keep up ...

From a poppy French short about kids grossed out by kissing to a dark look into a canceled TV show, the nominees run the ...

Booker Prize 2025 longlist celebrates Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi’s effort in a collection of short stories about Muslim ...