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...

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

Issue 24 of Stanchion features photographs by Stanchion editor-in-chief Jeff Bogle interspersed between original prose and poetry from some of the finest indie writers of our day, including Hannah Gri...

In a slight departure from tradition, Jonathan has allowed me to submit a selection of short stories that mark their author’s first appearance in print, presented (more or less) in chronological order...

One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.

Anti-Heroin Chic is a literary journal of poetry, photography, art work, stories, essays, and interviews, welcoming those who have been left out by literary gatekeepers. It's also a safe anti-drug-add...

‘Theme of the Traitor and Hero’ by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (First published in Spanish in Sur in February 1944.

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

Ten stories picked by Laura Black at Fictive Dream

by Daniel Addercouth. Briefly Zine, Issue 14 (2026).

Having been a keen reader and writer of short stories for thirty years, I find myself quite unable to produce a list of the twelve best.

We are delighted to announce the release of Blurred Edges, a short story collection, on June 5th 2026 Announcing the official release of BLURRED EDGES by Mike Fox “Mike Fox is a masterful sho…

The London Magazine speaks to Jorie Graham, Don Paterson, A. E. Stallings and more about the state of poetry and poets today.

I wasn’t good at managing the cold. It wrestled the breath from me, pressing deep into my chest and throat. Once, when I knew Rob would be out, I cheated and put the heating on, sitting against the ra...