fractured lit anthology 3 prize judged by Peter Orner CLOSED February 19, 2023 submit Showcasing today's best flash fiction writers. $5000 awarded between 20 finalists. Submissions are open for The Fractured Lit Volume...
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2022 The Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize Longlist
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Regrets: About Shoes You Did Not Buy Hope Lost and Found Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief Before The Wave Gianni Appleseed My husband said, keep...
Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Winners and Shortlisted stories
1st Place: Tiny Little Goat by Jasmine Sawers Admittedly, I am a sucker for a funny/sad story that succeeds. It’s a rare beast, as the line between comedy and tragedy is a treacherous one indeed. In “Tiny Little Goat”,...
Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Shortlisted Titles
Attaboy LouisMother’s KeeperBeforeWhat Will We Do With All This GriefThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonCastawaysA Middle Finger Flipped on a School BusHorse PoorFlight PathOut from Behind a RockMore Than an...
Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Longlisted Titles
BreadAttaboy LouisMother's KeeperBeforeViva PeachesJohnny and Janie Cross CountryWhat Will We Do With All This GriefHere, HereafterWhy We Will Always Love You, Vera KnightvilleBulletThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor...
Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Winners and Shortlisted Writers
1st Place: It's Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short stories themselves, but a story in itself, too. ~Rumaan Alam 2nd Place: Fusion by Diane Kraynak This...
Breaking Points: An interview with Chelsea Stickle
It sounds like you’re always writing! How did you decide what stories to put in this chapbook? Were there any that you took out? I officially started working on Breaking Points in Jonathan Cardew’s Bending Genres...
Fast Flash Challenge Contest Winners & Shortlisted writers
1st: Place: Party in the O.R. by Lannie Stabile Runner-Up: Through the Window by Susan Wigmore Runner-Up: Be Prepared by JR Walsh Shortlisted Titles and Writers sea hungry by Alvin Park Exotic by Ina Roy-Faderman Spit...
2022 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Shortlisted Titles
We Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the MountainSalty FeetDark CrescentHow Boys Get Their WingsLairFish FolkMY ANALOGThe Waking SpellHome Remedies Or: A Guide for the AfflictedFusionthe silk farmerNettlesSkin...
2022 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlisted Titles
MissingCrackedThey Are the Wild OnesA Ghost StoryHow to Stitch the Emperor’s New ClothesWe Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the MountainA Visit from the ParkSalty FeetThe PainterDark CrescentHow Boys Get Their WingsA...
Anthology II Contest Winners
Caterpillar Killer by Shastri AkellaDirty Shirley by Shannon BowringGiving Up by Catherine CadePicking Up Stones by Brad ClompusIn the Closet by Grace ElliottWays of Karst by Jamie EtheridgeSea Bugs by Amanda...
The Hollowing of Her Bones
Faye says she doesn’t believe in coincidence, but the day she burns the last of the cows, two women hurl themselves from dizzying heights like deadweight dropped into the sea. In the autumnal air, clotted yellow with...