Elizabeth Stott

‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for @thetls.bsky.social

Sick of Christmas carols? Tune in to hear me read 'The Place to Hide a Body', and eleven other stories read by their authors.

With excellent and funny intro by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

Glad to be part of the story!

My Christmas poem from first collection, A Lift of Wings, IDP 2014.

New Episode!
Listen to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social talk about his latest short story collection “Paris Fantastique” (@confingopublishing.bsky.social), his passion for second-hand books and much more!

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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the third and final volume in his series of story collections inspired by cities in which he has lived. Fourteen stories, including eleven that are brand new. Available for £9.50 (plus p&p): www.confingopublishing.uk/shop

Macguffin in the oven?

Recipe for a Ghost!

Read it again this morning - it's an excellent story.

Another unusually surprising story was Ian Critchley’s, ‘Ghost Walks’, telling the story of a woman having a moment of Déjà vu as she revisits York, where she once spent her student days and met her future husband. What, at surface level, can be read as a deceptively simple ghost story turns into a complex exploration of identity, marriage and retrospection on the lives we thought we would live in the halcyon days of youth.

Very grateful to @manchesterreview.bsky.social for these lovely comments about my story 'Ghost Walks' in their review of Best British Short Stories 2025 @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Now available from @saltpublishing.com and other places

A bright orange copy of Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, stood on an orange metal railing of a bench, the slats of which are rich mahogany-looking wood.

Delighted to have my copy of @saltpublishing.com’s Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by the indefatigable @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, who in his wide-ranging and goodness-filled introduction very generously bigs up the “brilliant idea” of A Personal Anthology, my online short story project.

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Celebration day for editor, Nicholas Royle and all the contributors of Best British Short Stories 2025! 🥳🎉🎈🥂

An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

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My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names by Alan Humm “So fresh, so frightening, so hauntingly familiar.” Fran Lock “Intense, intelligent and intoxicating.” Maggie Sawkins Described as a poet who "knows the ropes", Alan Humm takes us through a wide varie...

My new book of poems is out today. A huge thank you to all at Vine Leaves Press.

With one from me. Proud to be in the catch for 2025!

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

2026 will see a major expansion of Salt's list – including four new poetry collections, a new volume of short stories and, of course, the sixteenth edition of Best British Short Stories.

A new link for this story and some excellent reading: www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...

The Comfort Trap by Elizabeth Stott Molly is dying. Only my blood can save her. It flows out through a long plastic tube plugged painfully into my nose, as though an artery runs between us. The pillow is soaked in blo...

Short Story Feature

New on House Magazine: a brilliant new short story by @elizabethstott.bsky.social exploring open-plan offices, death and meetings. Dive in now.

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The Comfort Trap by Elizabeth Stott Molly is dying. Only my blood can save her. It flows out through a long plastic tube plugged painfully into my nose, as though an artery runs between us. The pillow is soaked in blo...

www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/magazi... A story from me in Salt's magazine.

Glad to be one of the crew on this ship (with my story ‘When viewed from the head rather than the foot’). Pre-order details below.

Thrilled & honoured to have won this!

From the archive of the re-vamped TSS Publishing, a story of mine 'Dandelion': theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...

More stories to read on: theshortstory.co.uk

The rain gauge, once a joke Christmas present for a whisky lover, is now the subject of the sober, incredulous, gaze.

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Reminding myself of a story of mine published in The Woven Tale Press in 2017. Still available: www.thewoventalepress.net/2017/06/03/l...