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...
I’ve been a fan of Constance Malloy’s for quite some time now. I always look forward to her posts on The Burning Hearth, and her memoir Tornado Dreams speaks to trauma and the path to healing with great courage and hope. Her latest book Born of Water: A Hybrid...
This has definitely been one of our hardest contests to decide on a longlist. 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 thirty-five that make up our...
The winner is The Breakfast Shift at the Usual New York Diner by Debra A. Daniel! Thank you, and congratulations to our shortlisted writers. We so enjoyed reading your stories about work/play for this challenge! HR by Chris Bruce The Librarian Dana Jaye Cadman...
We're so excited to announce our Anthology 4 winners! Judge Morgan Talty chose 20 stories to be published both online and in print! Thank you to everyone who submitted and to our finalists. It's never easy choosing only twenty stories from all of the great ones we...
We have narrowed down the total submissions for this challenge to 12 stories for the shortlist. We're making final decisions now and will announce the winner early next week! It's always so fun to see how writers interpret these challenge prompts. HR The Librarian...
We're so thankful to partner with Judge Aimee Bender on this prize. She was so impressed with the shortlisted stories that she chose co-second-place winners, so we will honor four stories with prize money and publication! 1st Place: To the Tower by Skyler Melnick 2nd...
Twenty-five fresh and original takes on this contest's themes are headed to our guest, Judge Aimee Bender! We can't wait to reveal her selections! Dear Goldilocks Heart of Stone The Incantation The Nesting Doll Paradigm The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep Heterothermy He is...
Michael Czyzniejewski, who is the interviews editor at the flash fiction magazine Smokelong Quarterly, has written four collections of short stories. His most recent is The Amnesiac in the Maze (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023), which writer Mark Polanzak describes as a...
We asked for new ways to tell these kinds of stories, and these 52 writers did not disappoint! We're working on getting down to a shortlist very soon. We can't wait to send it to our guest, Judge Aimee Bender! Dear Goldilocks Snow White and the Sleep Study Heart of...