Best British Short Stories 2015

A few months ago we were delighted to learn that Uschi Gatward’s issue 12 story ‘The Clinic’ had been selected for the 2015 edition of Best British Short Stories. We’re even more delighted to report that the book is now available! The Best...

Issue 13 now online

 It’s been three months since the print edition of issue 13 hit shelves and doormats everywhere, and so as usual we have now released it online to read for free over at issuu. Try it on your tablet if you have one—it works really well.In case you missed the...

The Happy Reader

“A joyous celebration of books and reading, the second issue of The Happy Reader, a collaboration between Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man magazine, is as good as the first. And it’s only three quid. Just get it already.” — Euan

Reading The Stanley Parable

 We can’t get enough of stories which refuse to play by the rules, or which make us suddenly realise we had no idea what the rules were in the first place. Some very interesting, not to say entertaining, narrative experiments are happening in the world of video...

An interview with Paul McVeigh

We love Paul McVeigh. The man’s a fixture of the British short story world and, along with Word Factory co-conspirator Cathy Galvin, a long-time supporter of the magazine. And so we were delighted to learn that he had a novel coming out with one of our favourite...