Sarah Turner

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Trees in the woods - some evergreen, but most with yellow and orange leaves, surrounded by fallen leaves.

Today’s walk - bright sun and falling leaves. My favourite kind of autumn day!

‘We don’t talk about my mother (controlling) or the house (sold) or our baby (     ). Or how he wanted to try again.’

Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social

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Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO

Small wooden bookcase, almost empty - just a few books in the middle of the top shelf.

New bookcase! It’s going to be such a relief to get all the piles of books off my floor!

Congratulations, June!

Congratulations, Brecht! That’s wonderful news!

I still can’t believe I have a story in the latest issue of the Missouri Review. I worked on this story for 2+ years and thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Then I thought it was unpublishable: who would read a story about an elephant hunt? Which just goes to show: NEVER self-reject!

Wow, Brecht - congratulations!

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.

I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Among Others, Unnoticed by Mike Fox I wished I could unremember the newspapers. They all said the same thing.

A joy to return to Fragmented Voices with a new story Amongst Others, Unnoticed. The membrane between private and public grows ever thinner, with attendant confusions…
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Maybe by Wolfgang Wright I was at my girlfriend’s when she got a call from a friend whose car had run out of gas, and this friend wanted Katie—that’s my girlfriend—to—and because her friend was pretty much shouting through th...

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Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.

Cover of The Wooden Hill

Endorsement for The Wooden Hill

Endorsement for The Wooden Hill

As we move into autumn it feels right to curl up with a collection of #shortstories

Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social

‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’

‘Illuminated and elevated’

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#epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity

Q & A with Alex Clark. Alex Clark answers some questions for us about writing, reading, and her short story 'Briar Rose'.

If you’ve picked up a copy of our ‘Briar Rose’ Little Uncertainty (or even if you’ve not found one yet), you might be interested in our new Q&A with the story’s author:

"I am not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked in the secret world." Quotation from John le Carré at the Bodleian exhibition.

Typed John le Carré manuscript page, showing his handwritten corrections.

I went to a really interesting exhibition about John le Carré at the Bodleian (Weston) Library in Oxford today. I really recommend it if you’re in the area before April

#BookSky #WritingCommunity

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Sleepy black cat curled up on a dark blue beanbag, looking very relaxed.

The faraway, blissed-out expression of a cat who’s just discovered beanbags

#caturday

It’s easily done! I lived in London for years, but still managed to get hopelessly lost behind King’s Cross the other week. I ended up in Camden and was only trying to get to Coal Drops Yard!

Just seen this, Jayson. Congratulations!

Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Tony Harrison

We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88.
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/

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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.

The Shortlist for September 12, 2025 - Turn & Work Nonfiction by Meg Doyle, Casey Jo Graham Welmers, and Jeannie Vanasco, and fiction from Emily Rinkema, Lauren Kardos, Chris Farrington and David Partington.

Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing.

Featuring nonfiction from:
Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com ‬
Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social

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#cnf #nonfiction

‘I feel that if the form strays too far from the sort of story we might have enjoyed as a child it atrophies’: such an interesting interview with @polyscribe70.bsky.social by @amantineb.bsky.social . Really looking forward to the rest of the series

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Absolutely thrilled to have a story out in The Forge Literary Magazine today!

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of £2 must be in want of a second-hand book’: written on a small chalkboard in Cobblestones, the second-hand bookshop in Avebury. Bookshelves visible in the background.

Wisdom from the National Trust bookshop in Avebury 💙📚

Yes, that’s true

Thanks, Mike! Yes, I’m interested in tracing change in relationships, too, and I really enjoyed that in your story, especially the growing sense of trust you created between them

‘You could glimpse the child in there, and the teenager, and the young man’: I love the intuitive understanding and incremental build-up of intimacy and trust between the characters in this story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

I really enjoyed this, June