The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Mike Fox. Gwen awoke to the rustle of leaf mu…

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

Information on submitting short stories to the Fiction Desk.

Over the last year, I’ve read lots of books that are just perfect for spooky season so I thought I’d bring together some of my favourites. I’m sharing them in the order I read the…

Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…

The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

New short story submission opportunities coming this summer from The Fiction Desk.

by Jayson Carcione “Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken.

Because Books Make the World Better

Caroline Hagood explores Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own,” a collection she hears in spectral conversation with the work of Kendrick Lamar and Agnès Varda.