25 stories made it to our shortlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! Judge Sara Lippmann is now reading and will make her choices soon! Pairs possible future for our daughter #683...
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Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Longlist
51 stories made it to your longlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! We'll be narrowing down our Shortlist of 25 for Judge Sara Lippmann's review! Pairs possible future for our...
fractured lit anthology 4 prize
judged by Morgan Talty September 24 to November 19, 2023 (CLOSED) submit Thank you to everyone who submitted to this contest! We're busy reading every submission! We announce a longlist in 12 weeks! We're back...
We have to be Honest: An Interview with Kathryn Silver-Hajo
Wolfsong (ELJ Editions 2023), Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s first full-length publication, is a gorgeous hybrid collection of flash fiction and CNF stories capturing formative moments in girls’ and women’s lives. There is pain...
Follow the Language: An Interview with John Fulton
I think I found John Fulton's short story collections somewhere in my early writing days; after reading stories by Carver, Baxter, Bausch, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff. I've always found a warmth and a beating heart...
fractured lit elsewhere prize
judged by Rion Amilcar Scott July 21 to September 22, 2023 (Now Closed) Add to Calendar submit And the winners are: Sideways by Cassandra Parkin Canarsie Zuhitsu by Geri Modell Every Thought and Prayer by Stephen...
“Undying Wind”: An Interview with Myna Chang
Myna Chang’s new flash collection, The Potential of Radio and Rain (out now from CutBank Books), is a revelation on the ferocity of human need set against the epic forces of nature. Her sentences snap as fast as a...
I Wanted This to Feel Personal: An Interview with Tucker Leighty-Phillips
Avee Chaudhuri: Children at play seems to be of recurring interest in the collection. There are all these powerful and evocative instances and sentiments of children at play, and the chapbook's longest piece is “The...
The Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 3 Winners
Judge, Peter Orner, chose these 20 stories for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms by Kati Fargo Ahern Unfinished Equations by Reneé Bibby Odds and Ends by Brett Biebel The Cloud Lab by...
Fractured Lit Legends, Myths, & Allegories Prize Longlist
46 stories on our Longlist! We're working on selecting our shortlist now, and soon we'll announce those titles and get the stories off to judge Natalie Lima! The Winter Flute Leucosia’s Last Song Surfacing Wild Bill's...
2023 Micro Challenge Winner and Runners-up
We're excited to name the winner and the runners-up! We'll publish all three micros in June! Winner! Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Runners-up: A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the daughter...
The Economy of Language: An Interview with Sarah Freligh
Sarah Freligh’s new collection, A Brief Natural History of Women, will be released in June by Harbor Editions. These flash and micro stories explore the rust-shot reality of women and girls perpetually trapped in a...