Laura Gallon is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial and gender studies, ethnic and migrant writing, publishing practices and short form writing. Her work has appeared in Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram and Archivoz. She is on the executive board of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) and works as a Commissioning Editor for the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

• 1.Introduction. The Contemporary Migrant Short Story.- 2.Poetics of Home and the ‘Habitable’ Short Story.- 3.A Language to Call Home: Linguistic Lineages and Beyond.- 4.Kitchen Poetics and the Migrant Short Story.- 5.Migrant Short Fictions, Fabric and Fashioning Femininities.- 6.Conclusion.

Laura Gallon is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial and gender studies, ethnic and migrant writing, publishing practices and short form writing. Her work has appeared in Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram and Archivoz. She is on the executive board of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) and works as a Commissioning Editor for the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

• 1.Introduction. The Contemporary Migrant Short Story.- 2.Poetics of Home and the ‘Habitable’ Short Story.- 3.A Language to Call Home: Linguistic Lineages and Beyond.- 4.Kitchen Poetics and the Migrant Short Story.- 5.Migrant Short Fictions, Fabric and Fashioning Femininities.- 6.Conclusion.

Laura Gallon is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial and gender studies, ethnic and migrant writing, publishing practices and short form writing. Her work has appeared in Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram and Archivoz. She is on the executive board of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) and works as a Commissioning Editor for the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

• 1.Introduction. The Contemporary Migrant Short Story.- 2.Poetics of Home and the ‘Habitable’ Short Story.- 3.A Language to Call Home: Linguistic Lineages and Beyond.- 4.Kitchen Poetics and the Migrant Short Story.- 5.Migrant Short Fictions, Fabric and Fashioning Femininities.- 6.Conclusion.