Short Story Theories has been awarded the Javier Coy Biennial Research Awards 2013 for best edited volume. The goal of these awards is to promote high-quality scholarship in the field of American Studies, and to celebrate the originality and excellence of research carried out within SAAS. - www.saasweb.org “Viorica Patea, the editor of Short Story Theories - a Twenty-First Century Perspective, is to be congratulated. Any book that brings together renowned academic specialists in the genre, such as Charles May, author of seminal works like The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, and editor of Short Story Theories and New Short Story Theories, or post-modern specialist, Farhat Iftekharuddin, with a range of talented scholars mostly working in Spain, is bound to be of interest to scholars specialising in narrative. […]It is a recommendable addition to any short-story specialists’ library.” – John Style (Universidad Rovira I Virgili), in miscelánea: a journal of english and american studies 48, 2013, pp. 149-153