Tonto launched as a company in 2005 with its first call for anthology submissions.

Tonto Short Stories and More Tonto Short Stories proved to be instrumental platforms for a number of new writers to launch their careers. Appearing in short story collections has long been a 'calling card' for writers on their way to their first novel or to create a buzz about their work in general.

Featured stories:

A Shrinking, a Holding Back by Fiona Robyn
Appendage by Peter Parrish
Bananaman by Judy Walker
Crazy Bees by Kelly Railton
Checkout Monologue by Max Dunbar
Dancing in the Dark by Emma Lannie
Don’t you want me? By Sam Morris
Flight Path by Sally Spedding
French Leave by Helen Lynch
Gale Force Magic by Geoff Lowe
Hoffman is Missing by Jon Wallace
Home-Birds by Marianne Archbold
How to tell if you’re about to burst into Flames by Sue Williams
Images in Formaldehyde by Sarah Evans
Jing Dong by Katherine Spink
Mirror Ball by Justin Ward
Mopping Up by Col Bury
No such thing as a one way Ticket by Nik Jones
Providence by Katie McCullough
Rehearsals by Annabel Banks
Short Sharp Shock by Matt Reilly
Sirens by Sarah Bradley
Sleeping on Trains Karl McIntyre
Stumbletime by Robert Endeacott
The Ditch by Alan Beard
The Great Leap Forward by Brigid Coady
The House that Tom Halder Built by David Denton
The Ice Queen by Rachel Bignell
The Life of a Star by Elizabeth Husher
The Ouch and the Ink by Lee Coan
The Skin we’re In by Matt Hilton
The Stairway to Paradise by Michael Noonan
White Chrysanthemums by Glenn Liddle
Yasmina’s Elbow by Shanta Everington
You don’t say by Robin Marsden
You don’t have to say you love Me by Catherine Walter