Congrats to all of our long-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we're excited to continue reading to find the perfect shortlist to send to Judge Dan Chaon! Longlist: Temptation a white...
Congrats to all of our long-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we're excited to continue reading to find the perfect shortlist to send to Judge Dan Chaon! Longlist: Temptation a white...
Judge Tara Isabel Zambrano has done the difficult task of choosing the twenty winners for this year's anthology! We're so excited to publish these twenty stories on our website and then in print! We also want to...
We finally curated a shortlist of 41 stories, and they've been sent to judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano! It's out of our hands, and we can't wait to see which stories Tara chooses to include in the final 20 for the...
“You’re dead to me,” Cas says when I dart back inside the house and catch her dancing through the living room in her red string bikini. Cinnamon scents the room as she waitresses a plate of oatmeal cookies—hot, no...
If these titles are any indication, then you can see how hard it has been getting down to a longlist of 67 flash and micofictions! We can't wait to get our shortlist of 40 to judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano! We're...
We want your most innovative and resonant flash and microfictions. We’re thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Gwen E. Kirby, who will choose one grand-prize winner and fifteen finalists from a shortlist of forty stories curated by our editors.
and I don’t say anything as you drop each strand on the ground and I wonder are you okay do you need help is that good for you as I see patches spread across your head and I know that it’s not good for you, but it must...
We're excited to announce the three winners chosen by Judge Deb Olin Unferth! 1. Our Father by Theresa Sylvester “This is an astonishing story, revealing so much about the father in a few words, the complexity of his...
Truth or dare: Who did you lose your virginity to? That sorta-kinda-boyfriend I had the summer before college. We both worked at Six Flags. He: the Texas Cyclone. Me: cotton candy. The days: sweaty, sticky. The nights:...
We want stories that deliver our readers challenging characters with an eye toward shifting power dynamics. We ask writers to interpet these themes widely and at a slant, to develop stories that defy our sense of good and evil.
Here is the shortlist of 20 micros we couldn't stop discussing! We're excited to have sent these stories to judge Deb Olin Unferth! Results in 4 weeks! Runaway Dad Never Gave Me a Rabbit's Foot Fifteen Shades of Pink...