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Release date for the HUNGER anthology! We have good news! The release date for the HUNGER anthology is set for the 7th March. Initial release will be through Amazon and Kindle but we hope to have physical copies in local book shops soon af...

Release date for the HUNGER anthology!

It's coming ⌛ Put this one in your diary. 7th March.

We can not wait to share this with you all and help make a difference for FIND-Families in Need.

#WritingCommunity #charity #foodbank

Urban Pigs Press reviews… All the Sweet Prettiness of Life by Cody Sexton The past is never as dead as it looks. Colin's review I whizzed through this graphic short story from the mind of Cody sexton, in about 40 minutes. A ve...

Urban Pigs Press reviews...

And it's a bloody good one!

Check out our thoughts on "All the Sweet Prettiness of Life" by Cody Sexton

Cover reveal!

We're really digging this banging art work from Jo Andrews (Mojo Art)

Release date coming soon!

Thank you! Here at Urban Pigs Press we just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent us their writing for the HUNGER anthology. It is incredible what people’s minds can conjure with a one-word promp...

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the HUNGER anthology. It really was tough turning some of you down. The sheer amount of quality was unbelievable. We would love to hear from you again on future projects.

For now, we have some work to do!

Living on credit – Marek Z. Turner The guy burned quicker than his wife. That surprised Frank. Although, it shouldn’t have. He had taken them from a room that stank of sweat, cheap liquor and even cheaper aftershave. The type from a ...

Less than week to go until the HUNGER deadline slams shut. In the meantime, how about some Monday fiction from @poliziotturner

Living on credit - Marek Z. Turner

Submit to your cravings! – The Hunger Anthology Urban Pigs Press is still open for submissions for our first ever charity anthology. We have had some great stories coming through already but we want you to make our job even harder by sending us mor...

Submit to your cravings! - The Hunger Anthology in aid of FIND - Helping families in need.

Send us your darkest weirdest stories for our first ever charity anthology. We are seeking Crime, Horror, Gritty realism and more.

For more information see below.

Submissions The Hunger Anthology Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions for our first ever charity anthology! We have decided to donate all profits from this collection to FIND -Families in Need. This Suffo...

Closing out 2023 by reading some of the submissions for the HUNGER anthology (in aid of FIND). Fire is on, beer is flowing and I'm feeling blessed to be surrounded by so much quality writing. Going to have to make some tough calls in 2024. #HappyNewYear

Out of Sight. Out of Mind – Mathew Gostelow “You'll find it easier if you don't think about them. Forget they're here.” * The apartment shone bright white. Smooth, curved lines. Pristine surfaces. Soothing lights. Safe. Spacious. Anything w...

Closing us out for our Life in Dirt call. Out of Sight. Out of Mind - @MatGost

It's been an absolute privilege to read and publish the brilliant stories this past month or so. A big thank you to each and everyone who has trusted us with their work.

Take Out – Conor Dowling Sticky tiles clutched my soles. Nobody should have to stay here longer than five minutes. But how was it fast food if they took this long? What was even the point beyond ten minutes? The impulse was d...

Friday Fiction!

We're coming to the end of our Life in Dirt window. I feel it's only fitting to release this filthy stomach churner, compliments of @ConorD_owling

Go With God – Joel Nedecky Grandpa asked me to sit with him on the front porch. He fingered a dip out of the tin and stuffed it in his lower lip. The sun flared in the dark blue sky as a hawk soared overhead. It was too hot, an...

Go With God by Joel Nedecky for our Life in Dirt call! "My brain shivered with pleasure as the drug seeped into my blood and life made sense, like each event was meant to be"
@JoelNedecky

It’s Pub Day! Arcanum Fabulas: Tales Both Strange & Absurd - Bam Barrow Urban Pigs Press are delighted to announce the release of our second book Arcanum Fabulas by our very own Bam Barrow. This delightfully twiste...

Urban Pigs Press are delighted to announce the release of our second book Arcanum Fabulas by Bam Barrow.

This delightfully twisted collection will stretch your imaginations wider than you believed possible with Barrow’s trademark style. @bambarrow.bsky.social

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The Hunger Anthology Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions for our first ever charity anthology! We have decided to donate all profits from this collection to FIND -Families in Need. This Suffolk based charity is...

HUGE announcement!

#WritingCommunity the HUNGER anthology wants you!

Submissions open tomorrow! All profits will go to the fantastic Ipswich based Charity FIND.

Please see the guidelines for more info.

Thank you very much for publishing @urbanpigspress.bsky.social

Ballad of a Dead Man – Tom Milani You walk into the bar to meet your friend. You’ve known each other for twenty years, been best men at each other’s weddings, helped each other through your divorces, never gone more than a week wi...

Saturday's fiction of betrayal for Life in Dirt!
@tom_milani

"You remember how easy the digging was, the ground soft, no tree roots or rocks. You scattered the excess dirt at the edge of the woods and raked the soil with branches."

Not Doreen – Heather Haigh Pausing on the doorstep, breath held, keys jangling, bold as brass in the afternoon sun, she’s here. The woman too stupid not to be. The woman who isn't Doreen. Her natural inclination is to slide t...

Friday Life in Dirt fiction! Not Doreen - Heather Haigh

"You’ve already searched her hiding places, her private places. Invaded them. Taken ownership of. She’s yours."

@heatherbooknook.bsky.social has defined the urban pig in this one!

The Last Party at the Death Rattle – James Maxwell There was a strange club in the hills around Santa Cruz just a few years back. Not strange in the sense of a horrific backstory or any sightings of stray souls. Ordinarily strange. You know, the locat...

Some Thursday fiction for our LIFE IN DIRT call by @AWOAMM

The Last Party at the Death Rattle - James Maxwell

"Just a rusty bathtub bolted to the floor, a single light bulb hanging above it, and chains piled around the room."

Tastemakers – Jon Doughboy The writer crouches in a dumpster in a nondescript alley in Brooklyn, hunkering beneath a hot and sticky and seeping mound of used condoms, eggshells, grapefruit rinds, syringes, coffee filters full o...

How's this for a bit of Monday fiction for ya?

"An edgelord editor is the first to blow, a string of come cast over the muffin like a mucus lasso"

This is definitely a bit of us right here, thanks @doughboywrites

Squadron – David Cook Samuel’s television replayed the shaky mobile phone footage that had, by now, been seen across the world. It showed a sunny part of the English countryside, earlier that day. A young man, later iden...

Brand new Friday fiction from @davidcook.bsky.social

Thank you so much for sharing this one with us David! Everyone knows you don't mess with a swan.

Enjoy 👇

The wait is nearly over! Loved reading this one

Prim and Proper – Edward Hagelstein The arrangement regarding domestic chores had always been this: I took care of the outside and my wife, fondly known as Cheeky by most, was responsible for the inside. And that worked for years, until...

This filthy tale is a perfect fit for our LIFE IN DIRT call!

Enjoy some Monday reading from @EdHagelstein

"I thought I was doing well by calling him the exterminator. Everyone else called him the bug man."

Prim and Proper - Edward Hagelstein

The Knowledge – Terry Holland ‘The Instructor’ sizes me up: big, sallow face incongruous behind a pair of bright blue eyes that are grotesquely enlarged by the thick lenses of a pair of heavy framed spectacles. Twin TV screens...

Our first offering for the "Life in Dirt" call. It's a bloody good one from
@terryholland.bsky.social

“Go the fuck home, have a beer, forget this whole thing ever happened.”

Urban Pigs Press reviews… Weston-super-Nightmare: A Hellbent Riff Raff Thriller by John Bowie ‘Bristol builders, sparkies, carpet fitters and plumbers face-off London gangsters in a Wild West showdown…’ A Classic Crime P...

Urban Pigs Press reviews...

We will be choosing books for our in house book reviewer Colin Woodgate to read and give us his thoughts.

First up, a true great of the indie community. Weston-super-Nightmare by John Bowie

Submissions Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions in short and flash fiction ranging from 500 words to 2500 max. To celebrate our first book release we are looking for stories relating to the above call "L...

Submission time! Our theme for November is LIFE IN DIRT! All the information you need is in the link provided, looking forward to reading your pieces! Crime, horror and gritty realism shorts please, up to 2,500 words to celebrate our first book release!

Neighbourhood Watch – Colin Leonard My friend Mike was a tough guy with a temper that he always had to take out on someone. It had gotten him into trouble in the past. As he got older, had a family, bought a house, his temper didn’t d...

Monday madness for 'Terror In Suburbia', today a gruesome tale by the dark mind of Colin Leonard!
Take the time, have a ganders, let the shiver crawl...

Neighbourhood Watch – Colin Leonard My friend Mike was a tough guy with a temper that he always had to take out on someone. It had gotten him into trouble in the past. As he got older, had a family, bought a house, his temper didn’t d...

A nasty little piece of mine to darken your Monday. Free to read from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social
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Those In Hiding Are About To Rise – Laszlo Aranyi The following story might reflect badly on me again. One of my "misdeeds" from my early childhood might defend me though.    In my hometown, a major construction project began, and the long out of ...

Today's story of madness and mayhem comes from the poetic
László Aranyi​ published in both translated English and it's original Hungarian. Enjoy!

Par For The Course – Russell Thayer Gunselle smashed a lofty drive off the ninth tee at Harding Park, brown hair bouncing in sunshine as she posed for the trailing foursome. An ear splitting wolf-whistle escaped a birdbrain’s lips. Sh...

Happy Sunday people! Help yourself to a side of @russelthayer10.bsky.social with your roast dinner!