Issue 15 launch in Oxford

As we’re in the final stages of putting together issue 15, our thoughts are beginning to turn to the launch, which is happening at The Albion Beatnik bookshop in Oxford on February 20th at 6pm. The photo above summarises the reasons why we have our winter...

Some magazine recommendations

Ever since our current call opened, we’ve had a great collection of magazines submitted alongside an especially strong set of short stories and poems. There will be a full post-mortem of the experiment once we decide on the content for the issue but, if...

Review: The Weather in Kansas by Crista Ermiya

Crista Ermiya’s debut short story collection presents neat and well-observed fictions that evoke more than a flicker of the uncanny, conjuring a world in which all stories are true, somewhere. Whether in the curious tale of a boy who falls in love when a mysterious...

Looking back: An interview with Matthew Kabik

Every now and then we catch up with authors we’ve published over the years. This time we talk to Matthew Kabik, author of  ‘A View of the Moon from the Moon’ from issue ten. We liked the story a lot, and ended up nominating it for a...

A submissions call with a difference

   We just opened our issue 15 submissions call. As usual we will be accepting work for five weeks, so you have until September 20th. But this call is a little different—we are asking everyone who sends in work for consideration to also show us that they have bought a...