The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
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The Fiction Desk is an independent publisher of new short stories.
Our anthologies are published three times a year, and feature a range of general fiction from the UK and abroad. The series also includes New Ghost Stories, an annual collection of supernatural fiction.
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
1M ago
Our spring submission calls are now open. This year, we’re running two calls: Our themed call this spring is City Stories – for stories about cities and how they shape the lives of the people who live, work, and travel in them. Our General Submission Call is our standard call for stories in any of ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
6M ago
Information on our autumn Kindle sale ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
1y ago
The BBC have just announced the shortlist for this year's National Short Story Award, and it features two Fiction Desk authors ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
1y ago
Today we’re announcing the latest winner of The Fiction Desk’s Writer’s Award. The Writer’s Award is presented to the author of the best story in each anthology we publish, as voted for by the contributors themselves. Because who could be better qualified than the people who write the stories? This time around the award is ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
1y ago
We're delighted to announce that our new anthology, Houses Borders Ghosts, is due for publication at the end of this month ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
2y ago
We’re so busy getting our new anthology ready for press that we nearly overlooked our own birthday! This week sees the tenth anniversary of the publication of our first anthology, Various Authors. In the years since then, we’ve published fourteen volumes, including 149 stories from 108 different authors. And we’ve got plenty more lined up ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
2y ago
The daffodils are out, the supermarkets are full of chocolate eggs, and there was even half an hour of sunshine last Thursday. This can only mean one thing: our spring reading period is now open. For this submission call, we’ve decided not to run a specific theme. Instead, we’ll be concentrating on general submissions, open ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
2y ago
To celebrate Halloween (and the opening of this year’s annual ghost story submission call), we’re running a sale on Kindle editions of all our anthologies. Our three New Ghost Stories volumes are just 99p each, and all other titles are just £1.99. You can get the whole series so far (all 13 volumes) for just ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
2y ago
Taking a fresh look at Penguin's Little Black Classics series, now numbering 127 volumes, and how useful they can be for writers ..read more
The Fiction Desk | books, creative writing tips & publication opportunities
2y ago
Here’s a quick guide to what’s coming this winter at The Fiction Desk: Our new anthology We’re putting the finishing touches to our latest short story anthology, and it should be available to buy within the next few weeks. We’ll be announcing more information soon, and after the announcement you’ll find all the details on ..read more