We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

Celebrate National Storytelling Week with this variety of story writing activities for KS1 and KS2. They will help to inspire a love of story creation and storytelling. These activities allow pupils ...

I recently ranked the 10 best Stephen King books ever, and had an absolute blast. I've been a huge Stephen King nerd for almost my entire life, and I loved revisiting some of his best works as I ...

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Read 'Blood Brother' by Jeremy Haworth, Best Short Story selection for the second annual Best In Rural Writing Contest.

“A short story, generally speaking, is about one thing, and one big thing needs to happen in it,” says Neil. “Which is not to say that you can’t have lots of different events. It’s just ...

Prose simply means it is written in sentences and paragraphs, and is not a poem or play script. Fiction means the story is made up, though of course you can base your story on something that has ...