Attaboy LouisMother’s KeeperBeforeWhat Will We Do With All This GriefThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonCastawaysA Middle Finger Flipped on a School BusHorse PoorFlight PathOut from Behind a RockMore Than an Acquired TasteBoyUndercurrentsAll You’ve Heard is...
BreadAttaboy LouisMother's KeeperBeforeViva PeachesJohnny and Janie Cross CountryWhat Will We Do With All This GriefHere, HereafterWhy We Will Always Love You, Vera KnightvilleBulletThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonOnly Sky Above and BelowOne Bullet for AnnieThe...
1st Place: It's Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short stories themselves, but a story in itself, too. ~Rumaan Alam 2nd Place: Fusion by Diane Kraynak This taut (and funny) story understands that few things...
It sounds like you’re always writing! How did you decide what stories to put in this chapbook? Were there any that you took out? I officially started working on Breaking Points in Jonathan Cardew’s Bending Genres workshop when I wrote the first story in this...
1st: Place: Party in the O.R. by Lannie Stabile Runner-Up: Through the Window by Susan Wigmore Runner-Up: Be Prepared by JR Walsh Shortlisted Titles and Writers sea hungry by Alvin Park Exotic by Ina Roy-Faderman Spit Joined by Tom Weller Unwound by Tiffany Grimes If...
We Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the MountainSalty FeetDark CrescentHow Boys Get Their WingsLairFish FolkMY ANALOGThe Waking SpellHome Remedies Or: A Guide for the AfflictedFusionthe silk farmerNettlesSkin BeetlesGhost SweatIt's Still ThereCold ComfortThe...
MissingCrackedThey Are the Wild OnesA Ghost StoryHow to Stitch the Emperor’s New ClothesWe Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the MountainA Visit from the ParkSalty FeetThe PainterDark CrescentHow Boys Get Their WingsA Son's VisitLevel 7LairYETTA AND THE OLDFish FolkMY...
Caterpillar Killer by Shastri AkellaDirty Shirley by Shannon BowringGiving Up by Catherine CadePicking Up Stones by Brad ClompusIn the Closet by Grace ElliottWays of Karst by Jamie EtheridgeSea Bugs by Amanda HadlockEndless Spoonful by Susie HaraCharlotte Sometimes by...
1st: Place: At the Bottom of the Well is a Home by Laur Freymiller 2nd Place: My Brother, Named and Unnamed by Steven Sherrill 3rd Place: Hair, Teeth by Josiah Nelson Shortlisted Titles and Writers A Modern Fairytale by Amy Wang Double the Fun by Ryder Collins...
These 20 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot and language! This shortlist has been sent anonymously to Amber Sparks! A Modern Fairytale Double the Fun Monster Diary The Bottom of a Well...
These 39 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot and language! We're narrowing it down to our shortlist and this will be sent to judge Amber Sparks very soon! Flesh and Blood Regarding the...
Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its belly. Evidence of the levels of marine pollution. I want to write about it. Writing about a subject that rattles me, simultaneously about a field of...