A Coup of Owls Press

A Coup of Owls Press publishes short-form fiction whilst celebrating and supporting diversity. We are committed to challenging the barriers to publishing and reading that can affect marginalised communities.

Discover your new favourite author: explore our current and past issues to read free stories by writers from around the world.

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  • Issue 5

    Weirder, stranger and different. In this modern world, we have lost something. We can explain so much that the fantastical seems even further away than…

  • Issue 4

    Love, Life and Death. I know this is trite, but truth is often at the bottom of well-worn clichés. Love is not always romantic; the…

  • Issue 3

    Beginnings, endings and beginnings…. This issue, all our wonderful stories seem to be a glimpse into our inner worlds, our inner desires and our memories.…

  • Issue 2

    the Haunted and the haunting… For this issue a loose theme came together of the haunted and the haunting. Of the spooky and surreal. This image…

  • Issue 1

    the journeys we take… For this issue a loose theme came together of journeys and travel and this art put us in mind of lovers…

  • Issue 00

    A flavour of things to come… The themes explored in these wonderful stories are all things the authors and the readers we hope to reach…

Let our books haunt your shelves…

It’s the perfect time of year to cosy up with some of our favourite short stories!

Other & Different (anthology), Other Worlds (anthology) Dark Paths (novelette collection) and Light Paths (novelette collection) are available in Paperback and eBook

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Q&A Colleen Anderson

October 3 2026

Colleen Anderson has been widely published across eight countries, with works appearing in publications such as Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Amazing, and Shadow Atlas. Rhysling Award winner for “Machine (r)Evolution” and a two-time winner of the SFPA’s dwarf poetry contest.

2027 and beyond...

September 26 2026

This year we celebrated our 5th birthday and we’ve loved every minute of it! Over the years, we have published over 20 issues that continue to be free to read or download. We have released amazing print publications and worked with fantastic authors and artists.

Q&A with Allison Wall

August 22 2026

Allison Wall (she/her) is a queer, neurodivergent writer whose work explores deconstruction, self-discovery, and belonging. Her short fiction is with or forthcoming in Fusion Fragment, Electric Spec, Crow & Cross Keys, and others.