‘Eleven Stories 2026’ <br> .pdf + print edition (PRE-ORDER)

‘The Desperate Literature Short Story Prize remains a beacon for experiment in times when this is both increasingly rare and increasingly vital’ —Joanna Walsh ‘so structurally inventive’ —Ottessa Moshfegh Eleven Stories 2026 collects the shortlist from our ninth short fiction prize and is available in either: PDF – €2.5 PRINT + PDF – €11 / a limited edition copy and the PDF to boot. **shipping is temporarily suspended due to Trumps tarifs and new EU shipping laws. It will recommence in the autumn. Spanning continents, Eleven Stories 2026 collects stories of wit and transformation, from the playful to the experimental, covering everything from personal grief and reparation to coming-of-age oddities, meditations on writing in the age of AI, metatextual friendships, (sacre)religious delvings and more… Including work by: Mimi Kawahara (WINNER), Emily Roese (RUNNER-UP), Eric Baker (RUNNER-UP), Katie Assef, Saad Bin Iftikhar, Imogen Clarke, Christian Emecheta, Jennifer Green, Esther Leaming (DL RESIDENCY PRIZE), L. J. de Pedro (EU SALON PRIZE), Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe ABOUT THIS YEAR’S WINNING STORY: ‘devastatingly intimate…accomplishes something exceedingly rare.’ —Ottessa Moshfegh PLEASE NOTE: for orders over 5 copies, please contact us at hello@desperateliterature.com