Helping You Make Travel Much More Enjoyable,
With Art in Transit

Our mission, as an international publishing house, is to help you provide engaging content, another art form, to increase customer satisfaction at the airport. Short Edition offers so many random, quick bites of fiction and creative non-fiction, to alleviate the long wait times, travel anxiety, and contribute to the traveler experience in the most positive way. 

To read is to travel, To travel is to read.

Victor Hugo

Get Known For Your Commitment to the Passenger Experience

The idea of ‘creative idleness’ by reading for pleasure, can be a 1min, 3min, or 5min moment traveling through another story or realm. Because big ideas are often born in idle moments when reading a short story, poem, or comic strip. Let’s associate these idle moments with your airport, rail or bus company. 

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Literary Lift for Transit Customers

"Having the Short Story Dispensers in select BART stations has been a great addition to engagment with our transit customers, especially as we emerge from the pandemic. The Bay Area is a community of readers, and these "small gifts" are really appreciated."

Jennifer Easton,

Art Program Manager,
BART Planning, Development and Construction, Oakland, California

Launchpad for Making Community Connections

Everyone has a story to tell and Short Edition offers solutions that enable transit partners to showcase their local writer’s works, both online and across the Short Story Dispensers. 

Imagine if the next great writer was traveling through your airport or station. 

BART launched their annual BART Lines contest with Short Edition and now showcases hundreds of local writers on their dispensers across the bay area in California: check it out here

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International Spotlight on Local Authors

 From the airport's perspective, what we want to reflect is the community through the terminal building. So when Jason(1) called us and told us how we can reflect our literary culture here from Edmonton, we were really enthusiastic about it.

"International travelers describe it as the topping on the dessert that was their trip here in Edmonton. It was like this final souvenir that they can take home."

Tracy Bednard,

VP Digital and Corporate Communications
Edmonton, Ontario

Jason Lee Norman,

* Local Author

* Jason Lee Norman is a locally famous author who worked with the airport to bring the Short Story Dispenser to Edmonton and curated 78 local works to publish in the dispenser.