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.
We absolutely loved reading the stories from this unique and inspiring contest! We love seeing how different writers approach our prompts, and we found some fresh and exciting stories from this prize! Congrats to...
We're so excited to celebrate these winning stories! They took us to settings only found in these writers' imaginations! Big congrats to everyone on the shortlist as it's always hard to get on this list! First Place:...
We want those stories that make a mystery out of the ordinary, that make the rational out of the mystical. We’re thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Tara Campbell, who will choose three prize winners from a shortlist.
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.
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're back and thrilled to present the stories that made the shortlist for the Fractured and Fused Prize. Congrats to everyone! We had to make lots of difficult decisions and it'll only get harder from here. We'll be...
Timothy Boudreau’s Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever is coming in March from Stanchion Books. Get your copy HERE or wherever you buy books. Guest interviewer Patricia Q. Bidar recently met with Timothy to discuss the...
What's fractured may be fused, and we were fractured and fused a million times over while reading these stories. We're honored to present these longlisted titles and will be back shortly with the shortlist, which will...
Another round of difficult decisions to narrow our shortlist to 20 stories to send to Judge Jemimah Wei! Congratulations to the shortlisted writers! We're all wondering who the winners will be! Collective Memory In the...
by Timothy Boudreau Patricia Q. Bidar’s Pardon Me for Moonwalking was recently released by Unsolicited Press. Get your copy HERE or wherever you buy books. Guest interviewer Timothy Boudreau recently met with Patricia...
Judge Gwen Kirby has chosen her grand-prize winner and the 15 finalists, who we will publish in 2026! Please congratulate these writers and get excited about reading their stories soon! We think these are some of our...