Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize Judged W. Todd Kaneko Longlist

This has definitely been one of our hardest contests to decide on a longlist. We had the privilege of reading many fantastic chapbooks over the last few months, and we’re sad we can only pick one winner. Here are the titles of the thirty-five that make up our longlist.

1. Fish Eyes
2. My Years of Blue Violence
3. The Start-Over Game
4. Nectar & other stories
5. Picking Up Stones
6. Playing Pretend
7. Various Dispositions
8. Everything Bites
9. Consider the Grease Traps
10. Little Knives
11. Hurt Me
12. False Life
13. Nicotine Walls
14. Lisa Longs To Hold Harry
15. Every Twelfth Tree
16. Fighting my enemies in the Applebee’s parking lot
17. Roll and Curl
18. Dementia and the Wild Man
19. Family Haunts
20. Like Oil and Water
21. Mulch
22. The Afternoon of Family
23. All the Small Things
24. Butterscotch Yellow, short fictions
25. Shoreline
26. Meanwhile, In the Hungry Dark
27. Have Headphones — Will Travel
28. You Go Home
29. Dreamboat
30. Kaleidoscope
31. Secrets and Truths
32. Jazz Picnic: Very Short Stories
33. The Rest of My Life Might Be Razor Wire
34. I Spent the Summer in Chengdu
35. On the Batang Ai and Other Flash and Microfiction