Welcome to The Fiction Desk

We are short story publishers, devoted to encouraging and promoting short story writing. Our regular anthologies of new short fiction feature a diverse range of established award-winning authors and newcomers, all brought together by the love of a well-written short story.

Most of the short stories we publish might loosely be considered 'general' or 'literary' fiction, but we regularly feature ghost stories and some science fiction.

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Our new anthology series

Our first anthology series began way back in 2011, and recently concluded with the sixteenth volume, Inside Voices. We're excited to be launching our new series this summer, featuring the same kinds of stories as before and a few surprises too. We'll be revealing the cover of the first volume later this month, and we're looking for short stories for the next volumes now (see our submissions section for details).

Sign up for our newsletter (at the bottom of this page) to hear all about it.

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Send us your work

We publish short stores by new and established writers, from the UK and around the world. If you'd like to send us your work for potential publication, start by checking out one of our anthologies. Then, if you think we'd be a good fit for your stories, take a look at our short story submission guidelines. You might also want to keep an eye on our annual ghost story submission call, which runs every winter.