judged by fractured lit editors April 27 to May 7, 2023 Add to Calendar submit This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We'll have a longlist in around eight weeks! Ready to test your...
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2023 Micro Challenge Shortlist
From this top ten, editor Tommy Dean will choose a winner! Branded by Peter Bruno Lemons by Kristin Chemis Burnt Offerings by Mary Francis Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Demon at Noon by J A Knight A letter from the...
Who May Be Left Out: An Interview with Jolene McIlwain
Jolene McIlwain's Sidle Creek, a collection of flash and short stories, is amazingly balanced between characters we care about and the joy and conflict in the natural world. This book will take you into the heart of...
fractured lit flash fiction open
This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone that submitted! judged by Sara Lippmann May 15 to July 16, 2023 Add to Calendar submit And the winners are: Grand Prize Winner: For a Short Time Only by Holly Burns 15...
The Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 3 Shortlist
Of these 42 stories, judge Peter Orner will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline The Cloud Lab Maid in America...
Brief Moments of Human Connection: An Interview with Andrew Porter
Sometimes you read a single story by a writer, and you become a fan for life. This happened when I read Andrew's story "Hole" in his first collection, The Theory of Light and Matter. In my early writing days, Porter's...
The Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 3 Longlist
Of these 58 stories, 40 of them will be sent to judge Peter Orner. He will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms Bad Boy A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in...
Winter 2022 Fast Flash Challenge Winners and Shortlist
1st Place: The circus without white horses or elephants by Fiona Lynch 2nd Place: Sheepskin by Hannah Zhang 3rd Place: Too Distracted to Function by Lannie Stabile Shortlist Natalie Abbott dm Armstrong Christine Aucoin...
fractured lit legends, myths, & allegories prize
legends, myths, & allegories prize judged by Natalie Lima This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We'll have a longlist in around ten weeks! Add to Calendar submit We're excited to launch a...
2022 The Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize Winners and Shortlisted Writers
First Place: Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe 2nd Place: Burn It All Down by Karen Jones 3rd Place: Casual Pinch, 1992 by Alice Kaltman Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe Will These Elevator Doors Never Open by Robert Clementson...
An Interview with Sherrie Flick
Co-Editor of the New W. W. Norton Flash Fiction America Anthology The newest installment in W. W. Norton’s popular flash fiction anthology series, Flash Fiction America, will be released on February 14. Edited by James...
2022 The Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize Shortlist
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Hope Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Burn It All Down Casual Pinch, 1992 Monday Bath Cuckoo...