James Jenkins

We’re Wide Open! Call for short stories and poetry – now open! Urban Pigs Press have once again searched the neighborouring farms for a guest Editor to join us at the trough. This time we’ve been lucky …

Urban Pigs Press are open for short stories and poetry

Absolutely! (I so just had to double check that 😂) I need to add it to Goodreads too.

I’m totally unashamed to admit I was in tears for that ending! Beautiful and heart wrenching read. I would be honoured to anytime.

I’m a little starstruck! Thank you for following me. I only just finished These Silent Woods before Xmas and you blew my mind. Keep up the good work

3 years old! Happy birthday to my first novel - Parochial Pigs!
Much has happened since that exciting day including 2 sequels and a major facelift.

Up next - Social Traffic. A fuck you to those with power who use it for their own gain. You’ll know when you read it 😉
Thank you for all the support❤️

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

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

Cover reveal!

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

Release date coming soon!

Great cause and a physical place for your writing!

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!

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.”

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

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 👇

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

Ha, cool reviews for "Family and Other Ailments" are coming in. Thank you @jamesjenkins.bsky.social ! - books2read.com/u/3Lx0v5

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!

Life in Dirt!!! Available now.

Urban Pigs Press first book release!!!

@jamesjenkins.bsky.social

Now available from Amazon and Kindle Unlimited - Life in Dirt!

My short story collection of filthy realism, gritty realism and dark humour.

Also the first release from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social

Jenks' new book of short stories out now! Available on Kindle and can buy physical copies on Amazon! They are as dark and compelling.

Grab your copy of Life in Dirt!

A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4

Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.

Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir

She Comes In With The Rain – Leigh Brady The doors swiftly shutter behind me as I thank the driver and shuffle my way down the bustling bus to find an empty seat.  The bus smells stale and wet as the rain pelts the roof; the metal clank dul...

HAPPY MONDAY FICTION FANS!!!

Check out this blinder of a short story from Leigh Brady!

- She Comes in The Rain

Please give Leigh some love and please don't forget to subscribe to urbanpigspress.co.uk

Coming very soon from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social - My short story collection - Life in Dirt!

I can not wait 🔥

Pigeon – Syreeta Muir She’s in bed, slowing herself down to one breath per five Mississippi’s. Wants to make the room disappear/reappear/disappear behind her closed eyelids, so it looks just like dusk through a black s...

First of our short fiction for the - Terror in Suburbia - call. It's a damn good one too! Massive thank you to @phantomsspleen.bsky.social for sharing this one with us.

Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror I started writing seriously in high school after reading several of Stephen King’s novels; I got hooked on Horror at the tender age of…

Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror tinyurl.com/yahwwdfm #AuthorsOfBluesky #BookBoost #HorrorCommunity #WiHM #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #WritersLift #WomenInHorror

Book sales have been a little slow lately so I've started my own delivery service!
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
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Book sales have been a little slow lately so I've started my own delivery service!
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
amzn.eu/d/97KEgsb
amzn.eu/d/ 5×Qadw8

Front cover of upcoming Alien Bubbha zine number 55 showing a bloody mountaineer on an icy slope and listing the authors.

Find out how Mark E Smith of The Fall punishes the rich and greedy from beyond the grave in my story A New Face in Hell, featured in upcoming Issue #55 of Alien Buddha zine!

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