| Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry. |
| Publishers, agents and editors are always talking about how short story collections and anthologies don't sell very well. |
| In a brilliantly wry and acidly accurate mini short story he demonstrates the shocking swerving from honesty and truth by the government. |
| I add this latest rejection slip from a literary magazine to my collection and turn back to the short story I had submitted. |
| On the evidence of this book, she's not quite ready to publish either a short story collection or a volume of poems. |
| She has also won acclaim as a short story writer, with one of her collections being aired on TV as a prime time serial. |
