12/10/2026
It's publication day for The Best British Short Stories 2026. This year's anthology includes 'The Hanging Stones' by originally published in Bog People: a Working Class Anthology of Folk Horror. It also includes stories by Professor Graham Mort, who was a beloved lecturer in creative writing for many years until his retirement. It also includes Ray Robinson, who was a PhD student of Graham's and has gone onto great things.
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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 literary magazines, anthologies, collections, and online publications during the previous calendar year. Among this year’s selection is a genuine literary discovery: a story by Graham Greene, ‘Reading at Night’, unpublished until its appearance in The Strand and reprinted here alongside the very best of today’s writers.
