Elizabeth Baines

There's a very nice new review of Unthology 5 from Thea Hawlin of The Siren. She says, 'The editor’s introduction to this fifth edi...

This 1950 novel, Doris Lessing's first, opens with a newspaper article entitled 'Murder Mystery' starkly reporting the murder ...

Look at this amazing effect. It's just about impossible to photograph this window display without getting the reflection of the oppos...

There's a new review of Best British Short Stories 2014 in Bare Fiction Magazine. Lucy Jeynes notes that 'w hen an anthology lim...

After weeks of short-story events that have taken me to London , Norwich and Vienna I'm finally having time to relax and do some pr...

Doug suggested this book, written in the late seventies but set in thirties Albany (one of a trilogy, 'the Albany cycle'). It feat...

I've now  written on Fictionbitch about my impression of the 13th International Conference on the Short Story which has just taken plac...

I'm back from the 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English, held last week in Vienna. It was a pretty amazing expe...

I've written a post for the Unthology blog about the inspirations behind my Unthology 5 story, 'Clarrie and You', which can...

Warning: spoiler. Last month, just before the death of the author Daniel Keyes, we happened to read this, his 1966 novel, much-adapted win...

My short-story-filled summer continues apace. I am staggered to hear that my story, 'Looking for the Castle' is the runner up in thi...

There's an interview with me about the inspiration behind my Unthology 5 story, 'Clarrie and You' - and about short stories gen...

Today is the official launch day of Unthology 5 - it's live now, and available from Waterstones and all good booksellers, Book Depositor...

A feast of short stories this weekend: on Friday evening and on Saturday I was at the London Short Story Festival, at Waterstone's Picca...

  I have a busy time coming up, and it's all to do with the buzz around short stories this summer. Tomorrow I'm off to the London ...

It surprises me that it's never happened before, but for the first time ever I've received a copyedited version of one of my man...

It's a rum business sending off stories. When I'm writing only short stories there's no problem - my mind is fixed entirely ...