Postbox is the magazine of Postbox Press, the literary fiction imprint of Red Squirrel Press, which publishes short story pamphlets and collections and novellas. Their founder and editor-at-large is Sheila Wakefield.

 

‘2026 will be the twentieth anniversary of Red Squirrel Press and ahead of that, this year, 2025 is the tenth anniversary of Postbox Press, the literary fiction imprint of Red Squirrel Press. I haven’t said much about how I went on to found Postbox— Scotland’s International Short Story Magazine in 2019 since Issue 1 so I’ll recap a wee bit, six years on, here with Issue 12.

 

I believe the short story is an endangered form and not published often enough. The degree to which short stories are read varies from country to country but they aren’t read sufficiently anywhere. One or two small presses are doing their best to ‘save the short story’ and some literary agencies have lead campaigns to attempt to raise awareness but more is needed. I’d long held an ambition to begin a biannual international short story magazine and was finally able to do so in 2019. Colin Will, poet, writer, editor and former publisher was editor from 2019–2023 and Samuel Tongue, poet, writer, editor and workshop leader took over in 2024.

 

My favourite short story writers include David Almond, Kjell Askildsen, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Chekhov, Julia Darling, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Helen Dunmore, Hemingway, Claire Keegan, Bernard McLaverty, Katherine Mansfield, Sean O’Brien, Annie Proulx and Carol Shields.’

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