by Erin Vachon In Patricia Bidar’s debut novelette Wild Plums [ELJ Editions, 2024], Maya moves to Oregon with an older partner, an English professor at a liberal arts school for women. She’s adapting to a slower life, trying to be useful in a new environment. Above...
Microfictions often set-up and exhibit their own kind of narrative rules, and we're excited to honor these 47 rule-breaking stories. We will announce our shortlist very soon. We're excited to get those stories to judge Deb Olin Unferth as soon as possible! To Keep...
Robert Shapard’s collection, Bare Ana and Other Stories, will be released by Regal House Publishing in February. Winner of the 2022 W.S. Porter Prize, this full-length collection brings to life an array of flash and short-short stories that are by turns delightful and...
We've got our winners for this contest! 1st Place: All and Sundry by Candace Leigh Coulombe This story captures the spirit of Elsewhere by transporting us to a familiar place made utterly surreal: a mega mart with everything from milk to robot lovers to xenobiological...
Congratulations to the writers of these 14 speculative stories! We'll be back shortly with our winners! Like Prey Marked All and Sundry Of Souls & Forests Crow Sweetie Come Brush Me A Lamb, Rising Fireworks at Dusk Or the Highway The Marvelous Daisy-Sue, Every...
Congratulations to the writers of these 39 speculative stories! We'll be back shortly with our shortlist! We can't wait to see what Judge Tara Campbell chooses from the upcoming shortlist! Field with Dogs (in the Afterlife) Like Prey Naming the Cat A Thousand Dianes...
Guest Judge Maurice Carlos Ruffin has chosen his grand prize winner and the 16 finalists! We're excited to publish all sixteen of these stories starting in January 2025! Grand Prize Winner: One Minute Thirty-Five Seconds by Caleb Ludwick Guest Judge Maurice Carlos...
Congratulations to our grand prize winner: You Go Home by Steven Sherrill! We can't wait to get your chapbook into the hands of our readers! Congrats to everyone on the shortlist! We know these chapbooks will find excellent homes in the future! Fish Eyes by Tala Ali...
I’ve been a reader with Fractured since January 2024, and in that time, I’ve read hundreds of submissions. I’ve found that I end up passing on pieces for many of the same reasons over and over, and I’ve improved my own work by writing these reasons out for myself in...
We're excited to honor these stories by including them on our shortlist for this contest. Congrats to the writers who have made it this far in the contest! Your piece has been handed over to our Guest Judge, Maurice Carlos Ruffin! Dead Things I Gave Birth To A Short...
We're excited to honor these stories by being on our longlist for this contest! We'll have a shortlist to send to Judge Maurice Carlos Ruffin very soon! Memento Morrie Dead Things I Gave Birth To A Short Love Story Humoresque The Anti-Anti Natalists Envelopes Call Me...
We don't envy Judge W. Todd Kaneko's challenge of only picking one chapbook from this shortlist! We had the privilege of reading many fantastic chapbooks over the last few months, and we're sad we can only pick one winner. Here are the titles of the fifteen that make...