“I could open the case, have a peek, and sneak out again. Just a peek. No one would know…”

— Uncle Dougie's Suitcase, Alastair Chisholm

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.

Inside Voices

Our latest anthology of new short stories is Inside Voices. It features a selection of general and supernatural stories by authors including Alastair Chisholm, Jo Gatford, Lauren O'Donoghue, and Eva Carson. It's available to order now.

Get your copy here.

(Our previous volumes, Somewhere This Way and New Ghost Stories IV, are also available now.)

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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.