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Vitoria-Gasteiz International Short Story Festival 2025: 10-16 March
As a literary genre, the short story is enjoying rude health. Nearly all publishers' catalogues include collections. Readers have shown a particular fondness for the genre. Authors are constantly writing new stories. And the Basque Country is a veritable powerhouse of short-story writing.
At the Vitoria-Gasteiz International Short Story Festival, leading figures from the contemporary short story scene will explore some of the key factors behind the triumph of the short story in this first quarter of the twenty-first century. With Ignacio Aldecoa acting as our host and guide, we will be joined in this literary journey by some classic names from the genre.