2024 Micro Prize Longlist

Microfictions often set-up and exhibit their own kind of narrative rules, and we’re excited to honor these 47 rule-breaking stories. We will announce our shortlist very soon. We’re excited to get those stories to judge Deb Olin Unferth as soon as possible!

1. To Keep
2. Runaway
3. Arab Sabbatical
4. Call Me
5. Dad Never Gave Me a Rabbit’s Foot
6. Glass
7. The Story Goes
8. Fishing
9. She Won’t Survive This
10. Fifteen Shades of Pink
11. Dear Kylie Minogue
12. To Play the Blues
13. At the Bottom of the Sea
14. The Time Eater’s Last Meal
15. Tummy Tuck
16. I Come From Aliens
17. In This Skin
18. These Thoughts Are Mine Alone
19. One of the Lies I Tell My Children (#2)
20. My Shadow’s Keeper
21. Too Bright a Dark
22. Tears
23. Playing with House Money
24. Fall of Eighty-Four
25. If you Got ’em
26. magical thinking is to paracosm as repetitive behaviors are to autistic threshold
27. A woman makes a cardboard train
28. Protoplanet
29. Your Funeral Was Lovely
30. Uncle’s Spiders
31. The Wild Ride to Rehab
32. Two Fathers
33. Like Broken Glass
34. Car Crashes
35. A Hawk Brings a Message
36. Secret to Marriage
37. Baby
38. Neighborhood
39. Summer Morning
40. Weightless
41. The Last Apricot
42. Our Father
43. The Cape
44. One Night, The Moon Starts Crying
45. Dated
46. Small Golden Squares
47. Boy and Balut