If you’re like us, you have a few drafts sitting in your files that could use an extra pair of eyes to help you take that story to the next level. Sometimes all we need is a professional and experienced editor and writer to show us where our writing sparkles and where we’ve gone off track with exposition or conventional phrasing. In a form like flash wherein every word counts, our editors can help you get those stories out of your draft folder and into the pages of exciting literary magazines.
Fractured Lit offers editorial feedback on fiction up to 1,000 words or up to 40 pages of a flash fiction chapbook. We've carefully chosen a team of qualified editors to provide a thoughtful critique. For each piece sent, you'll receive a one to two-page global letter discussing the strengths of the writing and the recommended focus for revision. While editorial feedback is inherently subjective, our suggestions will always be actionable and encouraging. Please allow up to twelve weeks to receive your feedback materials.
For your convenience, we offer three options—single letters, triple letters, and chapbook reviews.
All work sent through this event will also be considered for publication in Fractured Lit. Should we accept your work, the feedback fee will be refunded.
Rates for Single Letters:
- Flash fiction / microfiction up to 1,000 words (one flash piece or up to three micro* pieces totaling fewer than 1,000 words): $59
- Triple letters (three separate critiques from three different editorial staff members): $149
- Chapbooks from 5 to 40 pages: $399. (Conducted by Editor-in-Chief Tommy Dean. You will receive line-level marginal notes, as well as a global letter discussing the strengths of the writing and the recommended focus for revision.)
*For our purposes, micros should be about 333 words maximum apiece, please. Include all three micros in ONE document.
How you can help us when sending work for our review:
Please send only .doc or .docx files if possible, so that we can use MS Word's Track Changes for our marginal notes.
Kindly double-space and use Times New Roman 12.
guidelines
Fractured Lit Editorial Feedback is open to all prose writers.
Please send fiction only.
International submissions are welcome.
Please submit work primarily written in English, but conceptually or stylistically necessary codeswitching is warmly welcomed.
Please adhere to the 1,000 word count maximum.
Chapbooks may only be 40 pages or fewer.
If sending up to three micros, include all pieces in ONE document.
We strongly discourage simultaneous submissions in conjunction with editorial feedback. If your piece is already under review by our team and you withdraw it, we will not be able to offer a refund. If you withdraw your piece before we have begun feedback, we will be happy to let you substitute another piece of equal length.