Directed by @isabellekenyon.bsky.social and based in Manchester, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social is an independent publisher of political fiction, poetry & anthologies, and winner of Small Press of the Year (North) at British Book Awards 2024. Discover their books at #smallpublishersfair25 24/25 Oct

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED. Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it. #BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Off to Hastings in December to inspire & support other writers. Promise to smile & laugh more than the photo suggests! Please spread the word, literally & metaphorically! @hastingswrites.bsky.social

We’ve been getting some great responses to our author Q&A series, which we’ll be releasing over the next few weeks. Here’s the first:

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

My contributor copy has arrived! Extreme excitement on opening my book post this morning! With work by Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me et al. Thank you @saltpublishing.com & @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social for getting her story “Fabrication” into Best British Short Stories 2025 alongside Ian Critchley, Alison Moore, Pippa Goldschmidt and others. Will definitely buy a copy when I’m back in the UK.

Very happy see my story ‘Helium’ in here alongside so many great stories and writers. Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @saltpublishing.com and @fictivedream.bsky.social

Whoa! Hey folks, our new October sale has started. A massive 25% off selected items – discount applied automatically in our checkout. Don't miss out! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #bookish #bibliophile

I have a new story out today, which is exciting! Thanks to Eunoia Review for publishing it. The title comes from the poem ‘Money’ by Larkin. If you have five minutes, I’ve popped a link below. Cheers all! eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/w...

Super excited that we will soon have a shelf of FOTW books at @goldfinchbooks.bsky.social showcasing our novels, short stories and poetry! Thank you for your support, we love indie bookshops :D

Fiction on the Web is one of the very few magazines that offers free feedback on every single submission. You can see others that do on the FISH list: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list.... (look for the "Always gives feedback" column in the raw data)

It's the last day of our sale 😱https://www.saltpublishing.com/collections/sale

My contributor copy has arrived! Pub date 13th October @saltpublishing.com Pre-orders: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

#BrokenGround is the 1st anthology from @uncertainstories.com . Out on 21st October. Stories by myself, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, and Tamsin Hopkins, Nathaniel Spain, Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward. Ed Rob Redman & illustrated by Lucy Scott 🔥🔥🔥. Read excerpts and pre-order here www.uncertainstories.com

‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’ @paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Delighted to let you know I’ll be at the excellent Left For Dead bookshop in Shrewsbury with the brilliant Sasha Butler on Sunday 19th October at 4pm. We’ll be chatting about writing novels and getting published. Please join us ☺️ @saltpublishing.com

I keep misreading the title as Novelist on a Vacation, which would no doubt be a very different book

Thrilled! Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF will publish ALSTON MOOR in Autumn 2026. Epic eco-fiction with two entwined storylines, 500 years apart! I’ve adored every minute of research for this novel. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Just a few days left!

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

I've reorganised Fiction on the Web a bit, and there's now a "Shop" page for the critique service, audiobooks, physical books, and merch. www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/shop.html

Submission Open 15th September to 15th of October 2025 Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

After a massively busy August, work has been slow so far this month. If you know anyone who needs a copyeditor or proofreader for climate-related fiction or non-fiction, especially work that's solution-focused and justice-oriented, please point them my way. ☺️https://betterworldwords.com/ #amEditing

With thanks to @saltpublishing.com , one of those stories that seems to be about one thing, but is actually something else entirely

Calling book lovers! Sat 27 Sep | Mcr Central Library Meet indie northern publishers & discover unique titles! Get publication Qs answered at our 'chatty table' with agents Plus! The Fly on the Wall Press Publishing Training Academy launches here! fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204...

This is next on my reading list

Just finished reading this. Highly recommend.

The Homecoming is Zoë Apostolides’s debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland manor. Elver House is dilapidated, its faded beauty fading to ruin.

My story What Days are Like, placed 3rd in the Cambridge prize has been published online The Short Story. theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...

VERY excited to be joining forces with lovely and brilliant writer @devaneemily.bsky.social to host a writing workshop in our beautiful home town of #Ilkley! Join us on Saturday 8 November for Write Away: a morning of practical writing advice and inspiration 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-away...

Happy weekend, writers! Little reminder that our current competition is OPEN! Send us your best 2k words for a chance to win prizes - as well as publication with the brilliant @hobeckbooks.bsky.social 😍 We can't wait to read your work! #WritingCommunity #Writing #Weekend

Every sale helps us! Grab your new favourite read today. #Booksky #BooksMatter #IndiePublisher

Lovely readers, when you buy direct we get more £ to give to our publishing programme and our authors! Have a nosy - www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk #smallbusiness

RT's appreciated for this one, pre-orders are super-important for small presses cos they help gauge print runs and they're really helpful for getting us noticed by the big high street chains too 🙏👌

Our #JustOneBook appeal is live. If every follower bought just one book today, you’d help us keep publishing the stories and poems you love. Support us now: www.saltpublishing.com 📚 Every book matters. #BookSky #IndiePress #BookCommunity

This is a bit exciting :) Tickets available here: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/wordt...

Really excited that @amylilwall.bsky.social will be launching the emotive novel 'The Water That May Come' at #larkbooks #lincolnbookfestival Friday, 3rd October 7:00pm lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

"He turned back into his flat and I was left with his image, like an imprint in the air he'd vacated" Wonderful to revisit Paula and Davy, this time from Paula's perspective. Another superb piece of storytelling by @polyscribe70.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

Free shipping on all books throughout September! 👉 www.saltpublishing.com 🎁 Happy reading! #FreeShipping #BookDeals #ReadersOfBluesky #BookLovers #ReadMoreBooks

"Davy wouldn’t intrude, but he’d be around. And in his way I think he liked it that I was." The Shape of Moments by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/05/t...

On 18 September Confingo will publish The Garden, Maya Sharp's eagerly awaited debut novel. 'Fascinated by folklore, [Sharp's] writing always hinges on the fantastical and the terrible.' Available to pre-order for the special price of £7 (plus p&p): www.confingopublishing.uk/shop

Do you have your ticket yet for the Northern Publishers' Fair? We can't wait to welcome you to Manchester Central Library on Sat 27 Sep 11am- 3:30pm - expect publisher book stalls, an agent table, goodie bags and excellent bookish conversation! Book fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204...

New title: Saints by Tim MacGabhann! Nine breathtaking tales shot through with the hallowed light of the miraculous, written in MacGabhann’s pyrotechnic exhilarating prose. Out 23rd October! Pre-order here: www.scratch-books.co.uk/product-page...

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic! Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact [email protected] Pre-order now. Published September 25th. www.influxpress.com/tender

@uncertainstories.com is kind of an offshoot of the New Ghost Stories series from The Fiction Desk. They will be producing illustrated anthologies of short stories with a supernatural or speculative twist, and they have some really exciting plans for future projects.

Thanks to my publisher @saltpublishing.com for including a new short story of mine 'With You in Mind' in their brilliant House Magazine, "a place where readers can encounter new work, essays, reflections, and conversations from Salt’s writers." You can read here: tinyurl.com/ymdrsk74.

Huge congratulations to Alan Green on the publication of SOUND ADVICE! 🎉🥂🥳 Available from all good bookshops now!