The Fiction Desk
We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
- We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
- Our winter submissions call is now open! Details at: www.thefictiondesk.com/news/this-wi...
- Something’s coming… Watch out for news from The Fiction Desk in the next couple of weeks.
- Now just one day left - submissions close at midnight on Friday!
- Just a few days left!
- Our summer short story submission call ends in exactly one month! The deadline is Friday, 26th September and details are on our website - see below.
- It’s a lovely day for launching a new publishing house:
- This is great news. Congratulations Ian!
- I've been sitting on this news for a while, but I am chuffed to bits to say that I have a story in this year's Best British Short Stories anthology from @saltpublishing.com. See below for pre-order details with 25% discount 👇
- Our spring submissions call is coming to an end… submissions close at midnight tonight! So please be sure to get any stories to us before then. (That’s midnight UK time.)
- Now just five days! (Or four, depending on how you count days. It’s Friday, anyway. The deadline is on Friday.)
- Just one week to go!
- Our spring short story submission call closes in two weeks! (Deadline 30 May.) Full submissions information at: www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/
- We’ve been getting a great response to this so far. There are clearly lots of interesting longer short stories out there! We’ll be open for submissions until 30th May.
- I’m delighted to be working with Lucy Scott, our new art director / house artist. She’s responsible for all the new illustrations on The Fiction Desk’s website. We’ve also been preparing some (very) exciting new publishing projects together, which we’ll be launching over the next year.
- I’m hugely honoured to have been shortlisted for the 2025 #CWprize ! Congratulations to my all my fellow shortlisted writers. Find out more here: commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...
- Congratulations! Fingers crossed for 14th May!
- We’ve extended our maximum word count for submissions to 15,000 words. Because sometimes short stories need to be long.
