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micro prize

October 01 to December 01, 2024

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We're looking for the best microfiction. Do you have a complete story of 400 words or less? We're excited to offer the winner of this prize $2500 and publication, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive publication and $600 and $400, respectively. Judge Deb Olin Unferth. 

Writing Micros with Urgency and Immediacy Generative Workshop

October 01 to October 31, 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024, 7-8:30 p.m. EDT
Join us for a 90-minute generative writing session focused on writing microfiction! Fractured Lit is excited to bring this class to our submitters to help them write exciting and fresh micros they can enter into our yearly Micro Prize. Editor-in-Chief Tommy Dean has developed an inspiring and welcoming class where participants can learn craft moves from excellent model texts and write to multifaceted writing prompts. Past students have published stories inspired by Tommy’s prompts in today’s best flash fiction literary magazines.
We hope you’ll come write with us, so we’re offering this class for the low price of $20 per student! All interested are welcome, regardless of experience.

anthology 5

December 01 to February 02, 2025

Showcasing today's best flash fiction writers. $4000 will be awarded between 20 finalists. This year, stories will be selected by a guest judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano, who will choose 20 winners from a shortlist of 50 stories. All entries will be considered for publication.

ghosts, fables, fairytales

February 15 to April 13, 2025

We invite writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize. We're excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively. All entries will be considered for publication. Judge TBA.

micro & flash

always open

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Fractured Lit publishes microfiction and flash fiction from writers of any background or experience. Both the micro and flash categories are open year-round and with no submission fees. We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform us immediately and withdraw your work if your story is accepted elsewhere. We pay our authors $50 for original microfiction and $75 for original flash fiction.

Microfiction for Fractured Lit is 400 words or fewer.

Flash fiction is 401-1,000 words.