TSS Publishing has brought great writing to great readers since 2015.
We champion the best short fiction, creative non-fiction, interviews, reviews and essays.
Whether it’s our interviews with award-winning authors such as George Saunders, Kit de Waal, or A.L Kennedy, or fiction by writers like Richard Smyth and Elaine Chiew, there’s always something worth reading.
Our critical and craft essays range from Professor Charles E. May’s series What Makes a Great Short Story to the exploration of unusual structures in Flash Fiction.
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TSS is also home to the Cambridge Prize for short stories and flash fiction which runs annually. You can read last year’s 2025 short story winner ‘King of the Maudlin Seam’ by Tom Astley here and the flash fiction winner ‘Pick’ by David O’Dwyer here. Results for the 2026 prize will be announced on or before 15th October 2026.
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Our general submissions are open all year round, but with a twist: except for a few weeks a year, we’re old school and only accept work via post. You can read more about this in our Mission Statement.
If you’d like to send us something, please have a look through our recent publications and have a delve into our extensive archive.
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Below, you’ll find our very latest publications:
- Interview: Nancy LudmererRD: Hi Nancy, what a pleasure it is to speak to you about your wonderful short story ‘An Anniversary Visit’. I wonder if you could begin by telling readers about the origins of… Read more: Interview: Nancy Ludmerer
- Interview: Ian MurphyRD: Thank you for speaking with me, Ian. Let’s start with your short story ‘Ray’s House’ which was recently published on TSS. What was the inspiration behind the piece? Did it start with… Read more: Interview: Ian Murphy
- Flash Fiction: Not Like Us, by Catherine Chiarella DomonkosYou made me a rap mixtape for my sixteenth. Ballet slipper pink balloons flooded my family’s den in Woodcliff Lake. A white cake settled into its blushing rosettes on the low table. The… Read more: Flash Fiction: Not Like Us, by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos