2024 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlist

We asked for new ways to tell these kinds of stories, and these 52 writers did not disappoint! We’re working on getting down to a shortlist very soon. We can’t wait to send it to our guest, Judge Aimee Bender!

1. Dear Goldilocks
2. Snow White and the Sleep Study
3. Heart of Stone
4. What Big Eyes
5. The Incantation
6. The Nesting Doll Paradigm
7. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep
8. The Weeper
9. Every Time a Bell Rings
10. Heterothermy
11. Deliverance
12. Enjoy Every Moment
13. He is the River Monster
14. The Cycle
15. The Department of Missed Connections
16. Agnes and The Dog Star
17. Forgiveness by the Numbers
18. Pizza Rat, Don’t Think I Have Forgotten You
19. Her Little Animal
20. The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin
21. Selection Pressures
22. Narrative Seeds
23. Cordelia’s Ghosts
24. The Rattle Grass
25. Our Lady of Clean Kitchens
26. Blue Dragon
27. Dreams of Me
28. Second Sight
29. To Pay the Piper
30. The Last Time I Saw Frank
31. A Fairy Tale for Florida Girls
32. Selkie’s Stew
33. Yellow Eyes Jack
34. The Pebble and the Witch
35. Wild Horses
36. A wommon’s World
37. Harpy
38. To the Tower
39. Godmother Yes
40. Is There, Is There Balm in Gilead
41. Ratibia
42. Animal Nature
43. The Riding Hood Effect
44. A Goat for Goldstein
45. Thank You For Coming
46. The Burden of Authority
47. Mama Bear
48. A New Volcano Friend
49. At Whistling
50. The Mouth
51. The Desert Sound
52. Let Down