With apologies again for the IT meltdown, hoping that people will be receiving our newsletter right now, and with links to all stories to follow - we're delighted to announce the 2025/26 GBP Short Story Prize longlist:

Read “Little Noises” by @nicholaspetty.bsky.social in Issue 22! Get your copy here: www.storymagazine.org/store/autumn... #fiction #shortstories #litmag

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Spontaneously sharing one of my favourite short stories of recent times. 'Arrival' by Gurnaik Johal. It won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize a couple of years ago and I've returned to it many times since, this morning included. It's kind of perfect. www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-202122-a...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO ENTER! Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more... desperateliterature.com/prize

Had a story rejected for its 'insistent grimness' today 😎

⚡️EXTENDED DEADLINE⚡️for the 2025 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction You now have until April 30 to send us your stories! desperateliterature/com/prize

LAST DAYS TO APPLY FOR A SPONSORED ENTRY! Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words! Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, & more... desperateliterature.com/prize

Thanks @desperatelit.bsky.social!

What a treat. Look forward to reading these 👀

Hello Blue Sky. Here's a thread of some of my stories. John "The Hammer" Johnson's Last Disaster Movie 🚀 Published in the New England Review