Fractured Lit 2024 Elsewhere Prize Judged by Tara Campbell Longlist

Congratulations to the writers of these 39 speculative stories! We’ll be back shortly with our shortlist! We can’t wait to see what Judge Tara Campbell chooses from the upcoming shortlist!

1. Field with Dogs (in the Afterlife)
2. Like Prey
3. Naming the Cat
4. A Thousand Dianes
5. Short Story: A Confessional
6. Marked
7. All and Sundry
8. Of Souls & Forests
9. Crow
10. Sweetie Come Brush Me
11. Satan Is in a Highchair and All My Friends Are in the Wings
12. Stones that Speak the Language of Trees
13. Rosa
14. There Is No Litigation In Fairy-Land
15. A Lamb, Rising
16. It Ends in Sand
17. Supporting Facts
18. The Boys on VIP Table 3
19. Sarah K’s Green Escape
20. Franklin Luggage Warehouse
21. Fireworks at Dusk
22. Exiled Flamingos
23. Or the Highway
24. Everything Inside Must One Day Be Outside, Too; Or The Dump
25. Our man passes through
26. A Sunset Like This
27. if you go down to the woods today
28. You Can Tell by Looking at Her
29. Horizons
30. Night Is Young
31. The Marvelous Daisy-Sue, Every Sunday After Church
32. The otherworlds
33. The Ox and the Magpies
34. Gravity on Ghosts
35. The Yard
36. Céline and the Sea Creatures
37. A Man Will Come
38. Universal
39. Color of Love