Long List: Short Stories 2026

Come Again, Next Year by Joan El Faghloumi

Compliant [sic] by Timothy Collyer

Daftie Daphne by Bethan Crymble

God Bothering by Dianne Bown-Wilson

Grit in the oyster by Bev Morris

Hangs his Fiddle up by the Door by Ellen Evers

How to Hunt a Wolf by Alyssa Mackay

In the Steps of the Musk Oxen by Gayle Beveridge

Indentured Mind by Aneeta Sundararaj

Joined-up Thinking by Ruth Edwardson

Just to Witness by Timothy Collyer

Less Than a Thousand to One by Denarii Peters

Let Them Try by Fiona Barber

Mambo Rose’s Miracle Restorative Lotion by Gayle Beveridge

My Name on a Stocking by Bethan Crymble

Norm’s final push by Fiona Barber

Not Enough Space by Joyanna Lovelock

Opposite Day by Alexandra O’Sullivan

Protest in the Kitchen by Jane Ricot

Pulling Cables by Aneeta Sundararaj

Skin Deep by Glyn Matthews

St Caoilin, who’d turn in his grave an’ curse ye ’til ye die by Jinny Alexander

Stay On the Line by Timothy Collyer

The Accident by Jaime Gill

The Better Bully by Alfred Johnson

The Curly-Haired Girls by Sam Szanto

The Dance of the Letters by Helen Price

The Dyrehaven Troll by Vanessa Elle

The Fence Line by Natalie Holmes

The Interval by Timothy Collyer

The Irony by Aneeta Sundararaj

The Last Crust of Moon Pie by Bev Morris

The Last Gift of Sennen Cove by David I. Hughes

The Never-Weres by Jaime Gill

The Quality of Mercy is Actually Really Fucking Strained by Shannon Savvas

The Season of the Wild Boar by Susan Martin

The Twist of Limes by Sherry Morris

The Venusian Paradox by Tim Wardle

Yamraj by Aneeta Sundararaj

Yearning by Rita La Bianca