There are more Stephenie Meyer books than just the Twilight series!Hellish prom nights are in her sights too,as the short scary stories show.In Prom Nights From Hell,she collaborates with fave teen writers to write rather more twisted prom stories than w're used to..good comparisons for students.

Short Story Competitions 2008 to 2009 are approaching,and the world´s best writing magazine for women,Mslexia,has a great new contest - a competition I just might submit to. Women writers wanting to join me can get help on my Bellaonline short stories site or through a sub to Mslexia mag itself!

F Scott Fitzgerald´s Jazz Age American Short Stories sure took a random leap with this quirky little number!Now adapted as a movie starring Brad Pitt, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button flew off The American Dream agenda at a tangent - what´s the worst occupant of a baby´s cradle you can imagine?

When considering pre-school writing activities,taking kids scribbles,art and craft games and little stories seriously can have profound effects on their later schooling or even,literary,success.Read on for ideas on nurturing their early creative attempts and for prioritising their learning space.

Creative writing lesson plans are easy to dream up!Knowing if you have a gifted little creative writing student in the family can be guesswork-but there are clues!Nurturing early signs o story writing talent can make the difference between raising an undiscovered genius or a successful writer.

What makes a good F Scott Fitzgerald bio and which are the best sources to use? Students can find that writer biographies are too long or detailed for their needs - some articles may even have dubious sources. Read some brief facts on the jazz age author of The Great Gatsby and many short stories

F Scott Fitzgerald may have been a great and successful novelist of the Jazz Age and American Dream, but he knew better than most that success and fame also has its disadvantage. What was he personally afraid of? Perhaps we can guess, from these Pat Hobby short stories....

F Scott Fitzgerald is famous for The Great Gatsby and for chronicling The Jazz Age, but what does he have to say about his own bio - the excesses, drinking and partying that the Jazz Age brought to him personally? Students can learn a lot about F Scott Fitzgeral´s bio from the novelist himself.

Good reads about Victorian England are so funny and authentic with Dickens' Sketches by Boz.Boz (Dickens!) wrote more than just David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.If you aren't familiar with his short stories then you're in for a treat, especially if you've a soft spot for English Victorian hist

So what kind of mini short stories did the Waterstones famous authors try to squeeze onto the back of a postcard? Your Short Stories editor takes a look and finds some surprises – not to mention – some disappointments....