Avee Chaudhuri: Children at play seems to be of recurring interest in the collection. There are all these powerful and evocative instances and sentiments of children at play, and the chapbook's longest piece is “The Rumpelstiltskin Understudies, (play)” which is about...
Judge, Peter Orner, chose these 20 stories for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms by Kati Fargo Ahern Unfinished Equations by Reneé Bibby Odds and Ends by Brett Biebel The Cloud Lab by Megan Callahan Maid in America by Christine H. Chen...
46 stories on our Longlist! We're working on selecting our shortlist now, and soon we'll announce those titles and get the stories off to judge Natalie Lima! The Winter Flute Leucosia’s Last Song Surfacing Wild Bill's Last Ride A Visit from Baba Roga The Money Pin...
We're excited to name the winner and the runners-up! We'll publish all three micros in June! Winner! Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Runners-up: A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the daughter she grew in the garden by Vic Nogay The Baby Born...
Sarah Freligh’s new collection, A Brief Natural History of Women, will be released in June by Harbor Editions. These flash and micro stories explore the rust-shot reality of women and girls perpetually trapped in a harsh place and time. Each story—each sentence—is...
From this top ten, editor Tommy Dean will choose a winner! Branded by Peter Bruno Lemons by Kristin Chemis Burnt Offerings by Mary Francis Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Demon at Noon by J A Knight A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the...
Jolene McIlwain's Sidle Creek, a collection of flash and short stories, is amazingly balanced between characters we care about and the joy and conflict in the natural world. This book will take you into the heart of the natural world, where it's easy to imagine the...
Of these 42 stories, judge Peter Orner will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline The Cloud Lab Maid in America Brain, Brian Patrons Launch Day Conditions: 1986...
Sometimes you read a single story by a writer, and you become a fan for life. This happened when I read Andrew's story "Hole" in his first collection, The Theory of Light and Matter. In my early writing days, Porter's stories were a fantastic way for me to transition...
Of these 58 stories, 40 of them will be sent to judge Peter Orner. He will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms Bad Boy A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline Night Manager The Cloud Lab Maid in America...
Tara Stillions Whitehead is a multi-genre writer whose powerful prose explores the fine line between fiction and truth. She regularly writes about addiction, abuse, and the underbelly of Hollywood, using personal history to explore memory and trauma via authentic,...
1st Place: The circus without white horses or elephants by Fiona Lynch 2nd Place: Sheepskin by Hannah Zhang 3rd Place: Too Distracted to Function by Lannie Stabile Shortlist Natalie Abbott dm Armstrong Christine Aucoin Shannon Blake Roberta Clipper Alexis Collins Kyle...