Stories

In the spring of 2020, I spent a lot of time staring out of my parents' kitchen window at Liddington Castle, a Bronze Age fort in Wiltshire, England. Rumored to be the site of King Arthur's last battle, all that remains of the castle are two concentric banks of earth atop a high hill, surrounded by fields of wheat and sheep-grazing.  Read more

Our resident online creative writing tutor Eliza Robertson shares five top tips for writing a short story and techniques for developing your writing skills.

Short story anthologies are enjoying a boom in sales, rising by almost 50% in value, to reach their highest level in seven years.  Read more

I'm Jo Simmonds, I'm the editor of The Fiction Pool, an online journal which features short stories, flash fiction and occasionally poetry. I'm a published flash and short story writer but I also dabble in poetry and script writing.

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I sometimes hear that the literary world is too focused on short stories. We venerate obscure story authors the public doesn't read, and our MFAs workshop fiction in 3,000 word chunks while failing to teach young writers how to structure novels. And yet when it comes to literary awards, short stories get the short end of the stick.