Forged Truth is on a mission to produce high-quality fiction without the gimmicks, fiction that relies on its content from authors whose voices still have something to say about the human condition. We have two exciting new publications due to be published in July 2026:
Firstly, we will be publishing ‘Blight and Happiness’, David N. Martin’s ‘best of…’ collection of short stories. Spanning his thirty years as a published writer, these stories take us from the historical horrors of Ireland’s potato blight to the future of AI. This anthology features winners of the Words-with-Jam short story prize, as well as the regional sections of the Aurora Prize, the H.E. Bates Centennial Short Story Prize and a host of other prizes:
Taster stories from the anthology can be found on this website on our Short Story pages, including the lead story ‘Blight’, a moving tale of survival during the Irish potato famine in 1848.
Our second publication of the month will be ‘The Modern Type’, a sequel to ‘The Typewriterists’, which we think maybe David N. Martin’s masterpiece (we’ve seen the beta-draft; it’s fantastic, it’s epic.) We have a preview of the cover here:
We now think we have something of a track record emerging at Forged Truth. Our first publication was ‘The Typewriterists’ by David N. Martin, which won the Norman King Award for Fiction 2025. It is available on Amazon, so check it out.
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