Five Dials
First issue, published June 2008 | |
| Editor | Craig Taylor |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly (ish) |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
| Total circulation | 140,000 (approx) |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| Website | fivedials.com |
Five Dials was a digital literary magazine published from London by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, between 2008 and 2023. Edited by Craig Taylor, Five Dials featured short fiction, essays, letters, poetry, reporting from around the world (humbly tagged "Currentish Events") and illustrations. The magazine was free and distributed in Portable Document Format (PDF) approximately every month.
Though available online, the magazine was intended to be printed and enjoyed on paper. Five Dials was downloadable from the Hamish Hamilton website and subscribers received email notifications about new issues. In his editor's letter for the June 2008 inaugural issue, Craig Taylor described Five Dials as "the product of a few editors and writers who would like to push a small enterprise into the inboxes of anyone interested in good writing." Five Dials closed after 16 years and 66 issues; however, the magazine's complete archive remains available.