We’re looking for stories that use flash fiction’s unique use of brevity and lyricism to create new twists on these familiar traditions. Guest Judge Melissa Llanes Brownlee will choose three prize winners from a shortlist. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively.
For this challenge, we want stories inspired by the work of painter Edward Hopper. We hope writers will find fresh plots and unique characters hidden in the forefront of these dynamic paintings! We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $500 and publication. All entries will be considered for publication at our regular rate of $75/$50, depending on length.
What we love about this contest is that there are no themes or restrictions on style. We want your most innovative and resonant flash and microfictions. Send us those pieces that lift us up, that take us down, that make us feel alive. A guest judge will choose one grand-prize winner and fifteen finalists from a shortlist of forty stories curated by our editors. The first-place winner will receive $2,000 and publication, while the fifteen finalists will receive $100 and publication.
We want those stories that make a mystery out of the ordinary, that make the rational out of the mystical. Play with the edge of genre, but make sure your character is still the star of your story. The guest judge for this prize will select three winners from the shortlist. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively.
Objects break, and people shatter, but what’s fractured may be fused. For this contest, we’re looking for stories that utilize the tension and conflict in something being fractured, or that revel in the catharsis of someone finding what makes them complete after a shattering. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively. All prize winners will be chosen by our guest judge.
Join us for a four-part series of classes on writing microfiction! Each class will be a 90-minute generative writing session from a different micro master! Need a jump-start to your writing, want to try writing with extreme brevity, or just want to spend some time writing? We hope you’ll come write with us!
Fractured Lit has always been a place that celebrates small stories with big impacts. For the return of our Micro Prize, we want to honor stories of 400 words or fewer that tell a complete story and have us marvel at the depth of character and language. A guest judge will select three prize winners from the shortlist. We’re excited to offer the first-place winner $2,500 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive $600 and $400, respectively, along with publication.