fast flash challenge judged by fractured lit editors Round B Closes on December 1, 2022 submit This challenge is going to be a bit different: we'll have two Rounds, and you can submit to both. Each round...
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Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Winners & Shortlisted writers
1st: Place: At the Bottom of the Well is a Home by Laur Freymiller 2nd Place: My Brother, Named and Unnamed by Steven Sherrill 3rd Place: Hair, Teeth by Josiah Nelson Shortlisted Titles and Writers A Modern Fairytale...
fractured lit reprint prize
fractured lit reprint prize judged by Meg Pokrass CLOSED July 17, 2022 submit We invite writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Reprint Prize from May 15 to July 17, 2022. Guest judge Meg Pokrass will choose three prize...
Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Shortlist
These 20 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot and language! This shortlist has been sent anonymously to Amber Sparks! A Modern Fairytale...
Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Longlist
These 39 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot and language! We're narrowing it down to our shortlist and this will be sent to judge Amber...
Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Winners and Shortlist
Huge thank you to judge Matthew Salesses for reading and choosing the winners. This was definitely one of our most competitive contests and we expect these shortlisted stories will find excellent homes very soon! 1st...
2021 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Endangered Species by Caroljean Gavin Things Never Stay Warm by María Alejandra Barrios A Too Small Room by Yume Kitasei Bit by Bit by Minyoung Lee Ornithology for Girls by Tara Stillions Whitehead
Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Longlist
I'm so proud of our team for reading so many micros! We're so impressed by the sense of place, the knowledge of character, the use of compression to create resonance in these 52 longlisted micros! Writers please...
2022 Best Microfiction Nominations
https://fracturedlit.com/welcome-to-our-home/ https://fracturedlit.com/sapphire-eye/ https://fracturedlit.com/ostrom/ https://fracturedlit.com/explaining-divorce-to-my-three-year-old/ https://fracturedlit.com/jones/...
Omission Serves a Purpose: An Interview with Tara Stillions Whitehead
(Tommy Dean) I love the mix tape/Album format of the Chapbook. Especially the run or readingtimes next to the titles in the Table of Contents! Where did this idea comefrom? How does it influence or enhance the reading...
2021 Fractured Lit Pushcart Nominations
Lost Centuries by Shome Dasgupta Motherhood: A Hexaptych by Candace Hartsuyker Nothing the Wind Might Sting by Edie Patterson A Nice Blue Place by David Byron Queen A Guide to Small Town Ghosts by Regan Puckett Lessons...
flash fiction prize
fractured lit flash fiction prize judged by K-Ming Chang closed 7/18/2021 2021 Winners: 1st Place: Everything Will Be Okay in the End by Lindy Biller 2nd Place: Self-Portrait as Everything You're Not by Jasmine Sawers...