More info on Fractured Lit’s Ghosts, Fables, and Fairytales Prize coming soon! Stay tuned for details on submissions, guidelines, prizes, and key dates. Full information will be shared shortly, so please check back for the official announcement and important updates.
contests
2025 Writing Micros with Urgency and Immediacy Generative Class
Join us for a 90-minute generative writing session focused on writing microfiction! Fractured Lit is excited to bring this class back 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.
fractured & fused prize: September 14 to November 16, 2025
We’ve designed a new contest based on the theme of “Fractured and Fused.”
Objects break and people shatter, but what’s fractured may be fused. For this contest, we’re looking for stories that utilize the tension and conflict in something being fractured, or that revel in the catharsis of someone finding what makes them complete after a shattering.Guest Judge Sherrie Flick will choose three prize winners from a shortlist. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively. All entries will be considered for publication.
2025 micro prize: December 1, 2025 to February 1, 2026
More info on Fractured Lit’s Micro Prize coming soon! Stay tuned for details on submissions, guidelines, prizes, and key dates. Full information will be shared shortly, so please check back for the official announcement and important updates.
2025 elsewhere prize: CLOSED
We want those stories that make a mystery out of the ordinary, that make the rational out of the mystical. We’re thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Tara Campbell, who will choose three prize winners from a shortlist.
2025 ghost, fable, and fairy tales prize: CLOSED
We’re looking for stories that use flash fiction’s unique use of brevity and lyricism to create new twists on these familiar traditions. We want stories that take a slant approach, that create and illuminate the shadows, that awaken us to new ways of looking at our…
fractured lit anthology 5 prize: CLOSED
Ready for the opportunity to turn reality on its head? We want those stories that make a mystery out of the ordinary, that make the rational out of the mystical. Play with the edge of genre, but make sure your character is still the star of your story.
2025 fractured lit flash fiction open: CLOSED
We want your most innovative and resonant flash and microfictions. We’re thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Gwen E. Kirby, who will choose one grand-prize winner and fifteen finalists from a shortlist of forty stories curated by our editors.
fractured lit gods & monsters challenge: CLOSED
We want stories that deliver our readers challenging characters with an eye toward shifting power dynamics. We ask writers to interpet these themes widely and at a slant, to develop stories that defy our sense of good and evil.
fractured lit 2024 micro prize
judged by Deb Olin Unferth October 01 to December 01, 2024 (Closed) submit This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted and trusted us with your writing! Fractured Lit has always been a place that celebrates the use of writing craft to tell small...
fractured lit 2024 elsewhere prize
judged by Tara Campbell July 21 to September 15, 2024 (Closed) Add to Calendar submit This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We can't wait to read your stories! We're excited to bring back another favorite contest! From July 21 to September 15,...
2024 fractured lit flash fiction open
judged by Maurice Carlos Ruffin May 11 to July 14, 2024 This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted and trusted us with your writing! Since this was one of our favorite contests last year, we had to bring it back! From May 11 to July 14, 2024, we...










