Thin Skin magazine

There's still time for you to join our reading team. We'd particularly welcome applications from male and ethnic minority/global majority people. Get in touch to find out more at info@thin-skin.com

And we're looking for new readers! If you'd like to join our reading team or just want to know what it entails, please get in touch at info@thin-skin.com

Welcome to Issue 6 Yup, writing can be a slog, an uphill climb, a walk in the dark - choose any cliché you want. Endless editing, self-doubt, rejection, more editing, more self-doubt, more rejection. But committed write...

Looking forward to the rest of 2026? No? Then console yourself by reading a cracking good collection of stories. Welcome to Issue 6.

Still not too late to submit for Issue 6 - but hurry, submissions close on the 17th Jan!

Oops! Meant Saturday 17th. Still not recovered from the festive season...

Where does the time go? It's January already and we close to submissions for Issue 6 on Friday 17th. So 14 days to send us your masterpiece! (But do read the submissions guide first)

May the New Year be fruitful (Photo by Emilio Sánchez Hernández: www.pexels.com/photo/ubeda-...)

Delighted to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize. All can be read at thin-skin.com

Fancy reading for Thin Skin? Drop us a line on info@thin-skin.com to learn more. All you need is a couple of hours a week and an enquiring mind. Look forward to hearing from you!

How are you doing, writers? Submissions to Thin Skin for Issue 6 are open till Jan 17th. Why not make submission your pre-Xmas goal or your New Year's Resolution. We look forward to reading your work.

Welcome to Issue 5 - our 1st anniversary issue! - Thin Skin Well, who'd have thought we would make it this far. And what a journey. Thin Skin was born after an impulsive tweet in December 2023, and within months we had five editors, ten readers and hundreds of...

It's here! thin-skin.com

Are you a last-minute sort of person? You've got till midnight (in your time zone) to submit.

pexels-alexasfotos-33992883.jpg

Countdown. 24th October. Deadline for submission. Short fiction and flash. Thin Skin is waiting...

10 days to go until submissions for Issue 5 close. Get those literary gems to us ASAP!

It's October 1st. Know what that means? It means sending your submissions to Thin Skin. Closing date for Issue 5 October 24th. Make our first anniversary issue special 🥰

And it's done.

Just to let you know our website is down. We hope to have it up and running again ASAP.

News! (Sort of). We're recruiting readers for Thin Skin. If you'd like to learn more, contact us at info@thin-skin.com.

And please read the guidelines! We're going to be much stricter - no personal details on your submission!

Hello authors! A word to the wise: if you're submitting to us now, you'll find the process a little different. Please remember to choose flash or short story in the dropdown menu, or else your story may end up who knows where.

It's September 1st. What does that mean? It means submissions to Thin Skin are open for our first anniversary issue end October. Send us something special!

Welcome to Issue 4 - Thin Skin % % Thin Skin Welcome to Issue 4 %

We did it. Enjoy. (No idea how the % % gets there, so please don't judge.)https://thin-skin.com/

Counting down! Issue 4 coming out in 3 days' time. Just working on the last little finishing touches...

Update: submissions close 15th August for Issue 4, but we're updating our submissions procees after that so PLEASE DON'T SUBMIT until it's in place (probably end August).

One week to go! Submissions for Issue 4 close at midnight in whatever time zone you're in. After that, we're accepting submissions for Issue 5, in October - our first anniversary issue!

Photo by Tim Mossholder: https://www.pexels.com/photo/come-in-we-re-open-on-a-wooden-sign-hanging-on-a-door-4843912/

What should you do today? Why, submit to Thin Skin, of course!

Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/interior-of-building-316080/

Submission window opens tomorrow! Get your work to us by Aug 15th for Issue 4 and by Oct 15th for Issue 5!

Hooray! We're reopening to submissions for Issue 4 from 1st July, with a view to putting it out mid-end August. We'd love to make up the lost time and put out issue 5 in October as planned, so FLOOD US WITH SUBMISSIONS (but do read the guidelines first, please)

Not long till submissions reopen. Sharpen your quills and watch this space!

Thank you Tracy. 😊