‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’
Summer 22 Five Dials·21st June 2022Fiction You Will Be Strange, But You Won’t Be Strange Alone by Eloghosa Osunde Two Poems Jay Gao...Back Issues
Spring 22 Five Dials·23rd March 2022The Everything List Cyril Husbands shares with us everything he’s read, watched and heard in the last month...Back Issues
Autumn 21 Five Dials·10th December 2021The Everything List Cyril Husbands shares with us everything he’s read, watched and heard in the last month...Back Issues
Summer 21 Five Dials·23rd July 2021The Everything List Charlotte Geater shares with us every- thing she’s read, watched and heard—lately New poetry from...Back Issues
Number 57 Five Dials·29th July 2020 A letter from the editor Sophie Mackintosh on journeys On losing a cat softly a bell rings...Back Issues
Number 55 Five Dials·25th April 2020On love. Jay Griffiths addresses the court. Stanley Donwood ushers us towards a Bad Island. Stefania Rousselle searches France for evidence of affection. Plus fiction from Kathy Page and Nikita Lalwani. Back Issues
April 2020 Five Dials·21st April 2020Commission for a short story, 300-400 words, written in the first person. The narrator is an infectious disease...Very Specific Commissions
‘We have an expectation that loss comes all at once.’ Five Dials·5th February 2020Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar is a love story: a tale of obsession and betrayal. But not between lovers:...FictionInterviewsNumber 54 | Debuts
CLOSED: April 2018 Five Dials·21st April 2018Commission for a short story, 300-400 words, written in the first person. The narrator is an employee at...Very Specific Commissions
CLOSED: June 2017 Five Dials·1st June 2017Commission for a short story, 300-400 words, an interior monologue, from the point of view of Ivanka Trump,...Very Specific Commissions
CLOSED: February 2017 Five Dials·1st February 2017Commission for a short story, 300-400 words, about a scientist who smuggles out crucial climate change facts under...Very Specific Commissions
