Mātātuhi Foundation supports Sunday-Star Times Short Short Competition Webinar Series

Legendary writer Lorrie Moore once said of short stories that “a short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage.”

Paula Morris, an award winning New Zealand writer who has success as both a short story writer and novelist, couldn’t agree more.

“A short story is like a wild affair you have over a weekend,” she laughs.

The demands of honing a story down to a few thousand words, she says, can be an “intense experience”. Read the full article here.