2024 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Winners and Finalists

We’re so thankful to partner with Judge Aimee Bender on this prize. She was so impressed with the shortlisted stories that she chose co-second-place winners, so we will honor four stories with prize money and publication!

1st Place: To the Tower by Skyler Melnick

2nd Place: The Desert Sound by Mikhaela Woodward

2nd Place: The Pebble and the Witch by Emma Li

3rd Place: Our Lady of Clean Kitchens by Joseph Hernandez

1. Dear Goldilocks by Amy Marques
2. Heart of Stone by Sylvie Althoff
3. The Incantation by m.a. biddle
4. The Nesting Doll Paradigm by Nadia Born
5. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep by Sam Boyer
6. Heterothermy by Hannah Brown
7. He is the River Monster by Chris Corlew
8. The Cycle by Lucienne Cummings
9. Her Little Animal by Anissa Elmerraji
10. Narrative Seeds by Jane Garrett
11. Cordelia’s Ghosts by Cynde Gregory
12. Our Lady of Clean Kitchens by Joseph Hernandez
13. Black with Ash, Red with Grinding by Chip Houser
14. Second Sight by Gaynor Jones
15. To Pay the Piper by Julian Koslow
16. The Last Time I Saw Frank by Aimee LaBrie
17. A Fairy Tale for Florida Girls by Janice Leadingham
18. The Pebble and the Witch by Emma Li
19. To the Tower by Skyler Melnick
20. Animal Nature by Kim Steutermann Rogers
21. Thank You For Coming by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
22. Mama Bear by Dr. Michelle Tousignant
23. At Whistling by Cameron Walker
24. The Desert Sound by Mikhaela Woodward
25. Let Down by Calla Wright