The Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize is back!
Guest Judge
@TaraCampbellCom
will choose three prize winners from a shortlist. We're excited to offer the winner of this prize $3,000 + publication. Be our tour guide through reality and beyond!
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We pay our authors $50 for original Micro and $75 for original Flash! Both categories are open year-round and we do not charge any submission fees. We welcome writers of any background or experience. Submit your work today! ⚡✨
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We're thrilled to announce our first print anthology contest judged by the amazing
@kathyfish
!! Winners receive $250, print publication, and 5 contributor copies! Help us kick off this annual tradition! All writers are eligible to submit!
Fractured Lit invites writers to submit 100 word stories for our free mini-contest ending on March 12, 2021. 10 winners will receive publication and a free entry to the Fractured Lit Anthology 1 contest judged by
@kathyfish
Capped at 400 submissions!
Excited to announce the return of our Flash Fiction Prize with guest judge
@k_mingchang
! The Grand prize is $3000 and publication! Submitters will receive a 10-minute craft video from K-Ming!
Our next contest opens on December 15th! Flash fiction using the stories of ghosts, fables, allegories, and fractured Fairy Tales! More info coming to the website very soon!
The Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize opens today! $3,000 to the winner! Judged by Kevin Brockmeier!
or check our website for more details and to submit!
So excited to announce the winners of our 2021 Flash Anthology judged by
@kathyfish
Please congratulate these writers! Big thanks to all of our submitters and the wonderful Kathy Fish!
The 2nd Place winner in our 2021 Micro Contest is by
@aureleos
"In our neighborhood, the dumpsters peel orange but not like citrus. White liquid seeps from their underbelly. Nothing drinks the dumpster milk."
New Flash fiction by
@DeeshaPhilyaw
"You were 48 hours old when I called the midwife and told her that my uterus was falling out, hanging on by a thread."
New 100 word micro by
@kellathornton
"Baby, when the toast goes cold, the butter will not spread. The daffodil fat just sits on stiff bread. You can make it work, sure."
Fractured Lit is looking for flash fiction submission Readers! We are particularly interested in bringing on readers who are familiar with the flash fiction form and come from diverse backgrounds and experiences!
I've got it narrowed down to 14 winners! Emails and the official winners list going out in the next few hours! So many great 100 word stories I had to pass on that I know will find fantastic homes soon!
We’re challenging writers to create an exciting 100 word story(s) in 72 hours or less! Winner will receive $500 + publication. 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive $100 each + publication. Prompt coming May 27th!
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We're excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of our 2020 micro fiction prize! Full list of all the shortlisted writers as well! Help us celebrate these writers!
We're reading submissions again this week! And our Ghost, fable, fractured Fairy Tales Flash contest is open until February 15th! We'll publish our first micro series of the year on Thursday! As always, it's an honor to read your writing!
Hey readers! We would love to connect with more flash-fiction lovers on Instagram and Twitter. If you have any spare time this morning, come over and follow our page, or share this post in case any like-minded fiction lovers don't know about us yet. Thank you for your support!
I’m honored to have the opportunity, along with my associate editor,
@kbcarle
, and a fantastic reading team, to provide writers with a new paying venue for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading.”
Help us congratulate our Editor in Chief,
@TommyDeanWriter
, for being included in the Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlist! Congratulations, Tommy! 😁🎉
Check out the longlist here:
1st prize in our Flash contest by
@ingram_wallace
"I’d started Temping the August of my eighteenth birthday. I gifted myself the stationary cupboard, a bag full of paperclips and Post-It Notes. Theft, plus small chugs of Vodka..."
Fractured Lit invites writers to submit 250 word stories for our free mini-contest ending on 10/05/21. 10 winners will receive publication and a free entry to the Fractured Lit Anthology 2 contest judged by
@DeeshaPhilyaw
Capped at 400 submissions!
Time to review our Flash Fiction Contest Winners! Thank you to
@megiddings
for making the hard choices!
1st: Place: Elisabeth Ingram Wallace (
@ingram_wallace
)
2nd Place: Cyn Nooney
3rd Place: Steven Simoncic
Thrilled to announce our winners!
1st Place: Lindy Biller (
@lindymbiller
)
2nd Place: Jasmine Sawers (
@sawers
)
3rd Place: Dominic Reed
Huge thanks to
@k_mingchang
for judging!
Congrats to all of the Honorable mentions and shortlisters
Our readers are so excited to read your work that our queue is moving faster than normal, so get in those flash, micro, and micro series in our free regular submission categories! We pay $75 per accepted flash and $50 per accepted micro!
Announcing our Micro Fiction contest! Judged by Sian Griffiths
@BorrowedHorses
$2,000 first place prize! $1,000 for 2nd and $500 for 3rd with 5 Honorable Mentions at $100 Contest ends on 9/27/2020 3 stories per entry 400 words max per story $20 entry fee.
We're thrilled to announce the return of the Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize, this time with special guest judge
@salesses
! Submissions are open through September 19, 2021. Check out more information here:
Excited to announce our 2021 Micro contest winners and shortlisted stories! Congrats to 1st place jj pena
@heckaseuss
2nd place aureleo sans
@aureleos
and 3rd place Catherine Gammon
@nonabiding
New Micro by Kathryn Phelan "The sugar beet factory across the street from my house exploded when I was eight. It flamed out in a blue blaze of molasses that lifted cars a mile away."
2nd place winner in Our 2022 Micro contest is by
@karjon
"The cobweb-fine curtains blow in the wind, a storm gathers, the men work in the fields, the cat spits out its milk, and I knead, knead, knead the dough on the board, eight loaves already made,..."
Thrilled to announce our new contest judged by Amber Sparks (
@ambernoelle
) $2,000 for 1st prize! $20 fee for 2 flashes up to 1,000 words each! Thrill us!
Best Microfiction's 2021 judge Amber Sparks
@ambernoelle
has made her selections. Congratulations to the winners and the magazines who published these incredible micros! Here are the winning stories. Thank you so much to the nominating editors.
A thread of
@kathyfish
stories to get you ready to submit to our print anthology! We're excited to offer the 20 winners of this prize $250, publication, and 5 contributor copies of the printed anthology. All entries will be considered for publication.
New flash by
@sarahillswrites
"We bury Lil Fucker facing north in the frozen yard, halfway between the dogwood tree and the rusted tin shed, in the spot where he liked to shit."
A special shoutout to our Editor-in-Chief,
@TommyDeanWriter
, and his story "Always, Goodbye, Always" (published by Cease, Cows) for being included in the
@Wigleaf
Top 50 2023 Longlist! 🥳
Read here:
New
@kendraffe
flash "You may not make a scene at your roommate’s sister’s wedding, even when the groom gives a toast about how Kelli brings light to his life every moment and you think not for long, buck-o, and swallow your champagne so hard it burns,"
New micro by
@MynaChang
"I sit criss-cross on the floor, hold my breath against the menthol sting, crooked rows of cards layered in front of me. I’ve played the six of hearts on the seven of diamonds."
2021 Micro Contest Runner-up by
@PatriciaBidar
"I get lost three times en route to the Oakland Airport, ten minutes from home. I have waited for you through a year of your travels. The infrequent social media posts; the even rarer calls."
New Flash by
@LMariHarris
"Someone picks at her nail polish. Someone keeps checking her phone. Someone complains it’s too hot; someone asks how much longer this is going to take."
New flash by
@caroljeangavin
"My five-year-old walks the sidewalks with me into town. There is no other place for him. He holds my finger with one hand. His other hand clutches a headless black bird."
100 word story mini-contest is down to 21 submissions left! I had to pass on some amazing work! Some of the hardest decisions I've made as an editor so far!
Don't forget about our free submission category! Both Micro and Flash categories are open year round and we do not charge any submission fees. We pay our authors $50 for original Micro Fiction and $75 for original Flash Fiction. 😁⚡
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Afraid of sharing your work? We're here to give you the push you need! Our flash & micro submission categories are free to submit and open ALL YEAR. We pay our authors $50 for original Micro Fiction and $75 for original Flash Fiction. Submit your work today. 😎 ⚡
We're always open, always free to regular submissions, and we respond quickly (16-20 day average)! The quality of the submissions we've received is amazing! Check out our micro contest, too!
So excited to announce our longlist for the 2021 Micro Contest judged by Mathew
@salesses
! Writers, please celebrate loudly and proudly, but don't identify your title! Shortlist titles will be announced very soon!
Our Anthology Prize is back! We're so excited to work with guest judge
@DeeshaPhilyaw
Don't miss this opportunity to be in the year's hottest flash anthology! Send us your favorite flash, the one that you've been holding for a special home!
“Afterward, they sit quiet like a rock in a valley, while her red scarf stuck on a crumbling log in the dark-snuffed creek, recedes like a worn-out heart.”
@theinnerzone
writes with sensory precision in this micro series!
New Flash by Maria Alejandra Barrios (
@MariaaleBave
)
"I wear my dead sister’s lipstick around the house like Grandma told me to. It leaves my lips dry and the shade doesn’t suit me,..."
New Micro from
@kimmagowan
"I don’t remember Margaret Stohlmayer making an impression because of her looks, but there was a polish about her, a shimmer. Even at age thirteen, I was puzzled why my mother did not perceive Margaret as a threat."
This new micro by
@minyoungleeis
is exquisite! "She didn’t know that bit by bit, byte by byte, the snippets of her soul that witnessed beauty were sent forever to the boy. So, she kept texting and texting even though the boy never returned any of his soul.
New flash by
@byron_queen
"He says, let’s go fishing. Our hearts. Our hearts. The joy shooting through our limbs. Punching holes in our chests. None of us move. Breathe. It’s all we’ve ever wanted."
Thanks to
@SundressPub
for hosting the Best of the Net! We're thrilled to announce our nominations!
Dark: Four Micros by
@theinnerzone
Small Talk by
@marcellepdx
We wish them the best of luck along with any other nominees!
New 100 word micro by
@KShaoling
(CW) "Eat more ginger, less salt, no tears. Take showers not baths you are already drowning, get a haircut you look like closed curtains."
New Flash from
@melgoodewriter
"The kitchen lightbulb shatters above our heads. The filament burns red and fizzles to nothing. It is an explosion from light to black. We breathe hard in the aftermath,...and he says to me, I can’t be here anymore."
Offering 10 free entries for Black writers for our Flash Fiction contest! Reply below and I'll put everyone's name into a random name picking website and share the results mid-afternoon tomorrow!
#bookgiveaway
for anyone that likes and retweets this contest announcement! Giving away
@k_mingchang
's new Inch Chapbook from
@BullCityPress
! We'll randomly choose 5 winners on 5/19/2021!
New Micro by
@sfreligh
"Kat goes missing again, but not really. She’s where she usually is—passed out, pants on backward, in the Wawa parking lot. Because this is her third or fourth offense, the dean of students summons her parents..."
New Flash from
@NualaNiC
"I was the one who took the photograph of the princess with her toes in the mouth of a man who was not her husband. I didn’t mean to take it."
Winner of our 2020 Micro Contest by
@mollyjean0521
"The baker’s skin, burnished from the heat of very hot ovens, is soft but taut. The taxidermist likes to pretend when she’s fondling the baker that she’s fondling an hourglass. The hourglass."
New flash from
@francinewitte
"Every day, before Eddie comes, I tie my hair in a sparkly ribbon. I borrow apple burst lip gloss from Becky, my best friend. The older girls look as we pass them by. We are married, I want to say, so stop looking already!"
New Flash by
@CoCo4AfroPuffs
"When it gets cold in the south, mama wakes you up much earlier than she used to, and here you are now having to help clean the hog head sitting in the kitchen sink."
New 100-word wonder by
@lumchanmfa
chosen by
@CoCo4AfroPuffs
!! "I laugh at your need to keep your knees covered, shorts too long, pants too short, colors
muted and dark."
1st editor's choice from our 2020 micro contest by
@JoWithers2018
CW suicide "You never made the slightest utterance, even when they broke your compass and used it to scratch names into your leg."
We're excited to launch a new contest for our flash writers!
We're thrilled to partner with Guest Judge
@saralippmann
, who will choose one grand prize winner and 15 finalists from a shortlist. Submit up to two stories of 1,000 words or fewer!
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We welcome writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Legends, Myths, & Allegories Prize. (We also love to see ghost stories!). We're thrilled to partner with Guest Judge
@NatalieLima09
, who will choose our winning stories this year. ⚡
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