Huge thank you to judge Matthew Salesses for reading and choosing the winners. This was definitely one of our most competitive contests and we expect these shortlisted stories will find excellent homes very soon! 1st Place: “mi corazón quiere cantar así” by jj...
Endangered Species by Caroljean Gavin Things Never Stay Warm by María Alejandra Barrios A Too Small Room by Yume Kitasei Bit by Bit by Minyoung Lee Ornithology for Girls by Tara Stillions Whitehead
I'm so proud of our team for reading so many micros! We're so impressed by the sense of place, the knowledge of character, the use of compression to create resonance in these 52 longlisted micros! Writers please celebrate loudly and proudly, but anonymously as the...
https://fracturedlit.com/welcome-to-our-home/ https://fracturedlit.com/sapphire-eye/ https://fracturedlit.com/ostrom/ https://fracturedlit.com/explaining-divorce-to-my-three-year-old/ https://fracturedlit.com/jones/...
(Tommy Dean) I love the mix tape/Album format of the Chapbook. Especially the run or readingtimes next to the titles in the Table of Contents! Where did this idea comefrom? How does it influence or enhance the reading experience? (Tara Stillions Whitehead) I’m glad...
Lost Centuries by Shome Dasgupta Motherhood: A Hexaptych by Candace Hartsuyker Nothing the Wind Might Sting by Edie Patterson A Nice Blue Place by David Byron Queen A Guide to Small Town Ghosts by Regan Puckett Lessons in Negative Space by Sara Hills
We’re so excited to announce the 25 titles on our shortlist! We'll announce the winners' titles in the next few days! Thank you for your patience! From this list, K-Ming Chang has chosen 3 winners! "I got so excited about these amazing stories that I spent all of...
We’re so excited to announce the 52 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were so original, exciting, and creative that we’ve had a hard time narrowing down the list! We'll announce the shortlist titles in the next few days! Thank you for your patience!...
We’re so excited to announce the 34 titles of our shortlist! These stories are so good we've decided to publish them on the website this year prior to their publication in the print anthology! Thank you for your patience! From this list, Kathy Fish will select 20...
We’re so excited to announce the 62 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were so resonant, engaging, and creative that we’ve had a hard time narrowing down the list! We'll announce the shortlist titles in the next few days! Thank you for your patience!...
Sara Hills’ debut flash collection The Evolution of Birds brings her unique brand of surreality to birds, humans and the evolution of both with a skillful blurring of humanity and reality. From dark moments to humor, the collection brings Hills’ unique voice in...
Word count 762 | Reading Time 3 Minutes, 4 Seconds At a lecture given by Kathy Fish and KB Carle on the topic of flash fiction, the perennial question about word counts came up. Fish said if a story is getting close to the 800-900-word count mark, she pauses to...