A paper boat, succumbing to the waves. (Artwork by Lucy Scott.)

The deadline for our summer short story submissions period is midnight (UK time) on Friday, 26th September.

Our submission form has two strands this summer:

  • Our general submission call, for stories in all of the styles and genres we feature in The Fiction Desk anthologies. (Check out Inside Voices if you’ve not yet read us.)
  • The call for new publishing house Uncertain Stories. These are stories set more-or-less here, more-or-less now, with a supernatural or speculative edge. Find out more about this call here, and pre-order the first Uncertain Stories anthology, Broken Ground here.

Don’t worry if you’re not sure which call to choose: the form allows you to select a preference, but we’ll read everything with both publishers in mind. (If you’d rather we didn’t consider your work for one or other of them for any reason, that’s fine too: just pop a note in the synopsis box of the submission form.)

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