Little Uncertainties are v. short books, each containing a single story. You can't buy them: over the next year, @uncertainstories.com are aiming to give away 12,000 with book orders and via participating cafes and bookshops. All to spread the love of short stories! What an amazing thing to do!

Delighted to receive a copy of Broken Ground, the first in a new series of anthologies from @uncertainstories.com. Plus a bonus story by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!

Thank you!

This is quite exciting. Over the next year, we’re going to be giving away 12,000 of these little books to help spread the love of short stories:

Copies of Broken Ground, all sent out this morning to discerning readers. If you pre-ordered a copy, one of these (or one very much like it) is heading your way at this very moment. If not, it’s out now, so you can get a copy today!

Some stickers for the packaging of our anthology Broken Ground. There’s a tale in the sting…

Here’s our latest author Q&A, this time with @nathanielspain.bsky.social

Very cool article about the illustration that went with my short story in the Broken Ground anthology: www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...

We’ve been getting some great responses to our author Q&A series, which we’ll be releasing over the next few weeks. Here’s the first:

Just got my author’s copies of #BrokenGround . Rob Redman, editor of @uncertainstories.com , has done a fantastic job, and the illustrations by @lucyscottpictures are superb.
Stories by me, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, Tamsin Hopkins, @nathanielspain.bsky.social , Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward.

My contributor copies for Broken Ground, the first anthology from @uncertainstories.com, are here! This book is absolutely stunning 😍 So pleased to be a part of this, and looking forward to reading the stories by my fellow contributors.

#BrokenGround is the 1st anthology from @uncertainstories.com . Out on 21st October. Stories by myself, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, and Tamsin Hopkins, Nathaniel Spain, Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward. Ed Rob Redman & illustrated by Lucy Scott 🔥🔥🔥.
Read excerpts and pre-order here
www.uncertainstories.com

Running sheets! Our first anthology has been printed. It just needs to be bound, and then it’ll be out in the world...

Just a few days left!

Our summer short story submission call ends in exactly one month! The deadline is Friday, 26th September and details are on our website - see below.

It’s been a fantastic first week since we launched Uncertain Stories. A huge thank you to everybody who’s followed us on here, helped us spread the word, pre-ordered our first anthology, signed up for our newsletter, sent us their own stories, looked at our website, and everything else too!

Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott 👇