An Afternoon of Haikus, Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Why in the Spanish speaking world the short story and the very short short story or flash fiction, as it is also called, are much more popular than in the Anglospeaking countries? Some of Latin American most revered writers have not written a novel, only short stories, and that suffices to consider them great authors. We invited Professor Tyler Fisher from University College London and four of his recently graduated students to talk about that. We also asked them to read their own micro short stories, to discuss African superstitions, talk about the versatility of Spanish verbs and the richness of English lexicon and its phrasal verbs plus the use of colloquial language and the costs of books in Chile. With Kate George, HM Harrington, Charlote Toon, Alice Franklin and Juan Toledo