Author: Farhana

The nation’s essential annual guide to the short story returns for its sixteenth year, once again selecting the very best new fiction from Britain’s finest contemporary writers. Ranging across genre, theme and style, Best British Short Stories 2026 presents a dazzling array of talent – from established names to emerging voices – as published in […]

An utterly absorbing collection of depraved, delectable and enchanting short stories from the queen of weird girl fiction. Can ‘no’ be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval […]

Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe. Along with the never-before-seen novella ‘Moment Zero’, Tailored Realities will include ‘Snapshot’, ‘Perfect State’, ‘Defending Elysium’ (a novella set within the world of Skyward), and five other stories that were originally published individually elsewhere […]

An ageing war veteran, living alone in the Australian outback, tries to spruce himself up for a rare, and nerve-wracking, family reunion… A mother watches an intimate scene from a much-loved musical with her young daughter, the way she once watched it with her own mother…  After reporting a disturbance at home, a boy hides and waits for the […]

The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize was set up to celebrate the short story form. The prize, open to writers all over the world, invites short stories of up to 3,500 words on any theme or subject. Our 2026 judging panel included publisher Farhana Shaikh and writer Mona Dash. This anthology presents original new writing […]

An astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healing Creatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witness to our fellow creatures and to the complex emotional terrain of our […]

It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience.Erdrich’s magnificent story collection features a range of characters – a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience […]

Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, […]

The Bristol Short Story Prize makes a habit of finding writers a little before the rest of the world does. Gathering fourteen exceptional voices, Volume 18 takes us from a Brighton night shelter to a Mumbai flat to the queue at the dystopian Happiness Deposit Centre. Here is the short story at its most exacting, […]

A woman suffering an extreme allergic reaction to a yoga mat returns to the UK to give a reading at her estranged best friend’s wedding; a corporate new starter desperately tries to persuade her colleague to accept that his online girlfriend doesn’t exist; a group of student activists stage an artful protest against the demolition […]