Did you know The Short Story Project?

Short literature begins to abandon its long slumber to lean on new technologies and on the need for readings in keeping with these accelerated times to regain its place of yesteryear. One of the best examples is The Short Story Project, a project born to accommodate authors of mikes, haikus and stories from all over the world in what many have already baptized as "Spotify of short stories". Are you coming to see The Short Story Project?

Stories that go out of line

During the last few years, not all people sit down to read a novel like that because yes, nor to read an entire article; not. We operate with eye-catching images, eye-catching headlines and readings that we can complete in less than 10 minutes, or perhaps 5. A reality in which short literature has found its best ally to sneak into our lives again.

A few months ago, the French company Short edition began printing stories on machines located at different railway stations in France. In turn, new authors emerge on the Internet thanks to micro-stories written in a 140-character tweet and projects like The Short Story Project are born with the aim of culminating a trend in growing during the last decade.

Under the slogan "Stories that cross the line", The Short Story Project is a social network founded by the Israeli editor Adam Blumenthal and the Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero, who in turn coordinates the Spanish part of the website, also available in English and Hebrew. An initiative that arises as a link between writers, translators and professionals from the publishing world focused on short literature in the form of various stories from all parts of the planet and translated in order to reach all readers.

The objective of the founders of the project is to track stories that make other writers known and that, after recommending them, become part of this great literary cloud in which they fit from Virginia Woolf to Graham Greene through other emerging authors or unknown.

In addition, both the web and the app count on stories of all genres (surreal, love, erotic), an audiobook section (each written story is also preceded by its audio version) and even a filter of recommendations that allows you to continue discovering other authors whose writing is related to your favorite topic.

Originally conceived to make Spanish-speaking authors known, TSSP has been adding followers and interested in breaking the lines of the language and allowing a Spaniard to enjoy the story of an author from Tokyo or an Ecuadorian editor to get to know the story of a Greek artist.

This is how this great project works, which began its journey in 2016 and which, hopefully, lays the foundations for a new fever for the short, the brief; for new stories.

What do you think of this initiative?