Reading the Short Story

Short stories can be windows into other worlds. Fictions are brief enough to be consumed in one sitting but memorable enough to stay in the imagination for months or years afterward. The story at its best can be a kind of hinge between the everyday world and the world of the imagination. Appearing in weekly magazines and newspapers as much as in book collections, short stories mingle productively. Lydia Wevers read, wrote about, and anthologised the New Zealand short story throughout her career. This panel takes Lydia's work as a starting point to think about collecting and anthologising.