Hi Ra’Niqua. It’s a time for you. Your first collection, flash fiction, For What Ails You, comes out from ELJ Press on November 6, and not too much after, there’s the matter of the twins you are carrying coming out. Congratulations on all of it. Besides being...
25 stories made it to our shortlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! Judge Sara Lippmann is now reading and will make her choices soon! Pairs possible future for our daughter #683 Rowdy Yates Slept Here Roadkill Is Now and Ever Shall...
51 stories made it to your longlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! We'll be narrowing down our Shortlist of 25 for Judge Sara Lippmann's review! Pairs possible future for our daughter #683 Rowdy Yates Slept Here Roadkill Is Now and...
Wolfsong (ELJ Editions 2023), Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s first full-length publication, is a gorgeous hybrid collection of flash fiction and CNF stories capturing formative moments in girls’ and women’s lives. There is pain in these stories. And longing. There are bad...
I think I found John Fulton's short story collections somewhere in my early writing days; after reading stories by Carver, Baxter, Bausch, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff. I've always found a warmth and a beating heart in John's stories, a way of seeing the world in...
Myna Chang’s new flash collection, The Potential of Radio and Rain (out now from CutBank Books), is a revelation on the ferocity of human need set against the epic forces of nature. Her sentences snap as fast as a cyclone, whipping misfit characters across a prairie...
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...