| | | | | | | | | | now open:
fractured lit flash fiction open
awarding $3,500 | deadline: JULY 16 | | | We're excited to launch a new contest for our flash writers. From May 15 to July 16, 2023, we welcome writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN.
Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow and the joy of connecting to a diverse population.
We're thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Sara Lippmann, who will choose one grand prize winner and 15 finalists from a shortlist. The first-place winner will receive $2,000 and publication, while the 15 finalists will receive $100 and publication. All entries will be considered for general publication.
Good luck and happy writing!
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Need a reminder to submit? Add this contest to your calendar: | | | | | | | | | | | GUEST JUDGE: SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novel Lech (Tortoise Books) and the story collections Doll Palace (re-released by 7.13 Books) and Jerks (Mason Jar Press.) Her fiction has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Catapult, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she is co-editing the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible for SUNY Press. She is a founding member of the Writing Co-Lab and lives with her family in Brooklyn. Guidelines: ● Your $20 reading fee allows up to two stories of 1,000 words or fewer each per entry—if submitting two stories, please put them both in a SINGLE document. ● We allow multiple submissions—each set of two flash stories requires a separate submission accompanied by a reading fee.
● Please send flash fiction only—1,000 word count maximum per story.
● We only consider unpublished work for contests—we do not review reprints, including self-published work (even on blogs and social media). Reprints will be automatically disqualified.
● Simultaneous submissions are okay—please notify us and withdraw your entry if you find another home for your writing.
● All entries will also be considered for publication in Fractured Lit.
● Double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12 (or larger if needed).
● Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history (if applicable).
● We only read work in English, though some code-switching is warmly welcomed.
● We do not read anonymous submissions. However, shortlisted stories are sent anonymously to the judge. The deadline for entry is July 16, 2023. We will announce the shortlist within ten to twelve weeks of the contest's close. All writers will be notified when the results are final. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | now open:
fractured lit feedback frenzy
deadline: JULY 2 | | | 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 Letters: ●Single Letter 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. (Review and critique 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. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Grandpa Revisits the Modern Art Era
by Timothy Boudreau | | | Timothy Boudreau lives and works in northern New Hampshire. His recent work has been nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, and a Pushcart Prize. His collection Saturday Night and other Short Stories is available through Hobblebush Books. Find him on Twitter at @tcboudreau or at timothyboudreau.com. | | | | | | | | | | | Her Deleted Scenes
by Catherine O’Brien | | | Catherine O’Brien is an Irish writer of poems, flash fiction and short stories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Reflex Press, Ink Sweat &Tears, Ellipsis Zine, Bending Genres, Flash Boulevard, Janus Literary & more. Her poem ‘Embezzled Emotion’ published in Janus Literary received a Best of the Net nomination 2023, and her flash ‘Stone Fruit’ received a Best Small Fictions nomination 2023 from Bending Genres. You can find her Twitter @abairrud2021. | | | | | | | | | | | Sundays with Clarisa
by Ji Hyun Joo | | | Ji Hyun Joo is a writer raised in San Diego, CA and Gyeongido, South Korea, currently based in Astoria, NY. She completed her M.F.A in Fiction at Columbia University, where she is a recipient of the 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and a nominee for the Henfield Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New England Review and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What You Wouldn’t Do
by Sarah Freligh | | | Sarah Freligh is the author of five books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis, and A Brief Natural History of Women, forthcoming in 2023 from Harbor Editions. Recent work has appeared in the Cincinnati Review miCRo series, SmokeLong Quarterly, the Wigleaf 50, and in the anthologies New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), Best Microfiction (2019-22), and Best Small Fiction 2022. Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation. | | | | | | | | | | | Raisin
by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar | | | Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer. Born and raised in India, she later migrated to the USA with her husband and son. A technologist by profession and a writer by passion, she is the author of Morsels of Purple, a flash fiction collection, and Skin Over Milk, a prose chapbook. She is a fiction editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. More at saraspunyfingers.com. Reach her @PunyFingers | | | | | | | | | | | They Would Have Told You
by Melissa Llanes Brownlee | | | Melissa Llanes Brownlee (she/her), a native Hawaiian writer, living in Japan, has work published or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Reckon Review, The Hennepin Review, Cheap Pop, Five South, Astrolabe, Parentheses Journal, Empty House Press, and Indiana Review. She is in Best Small Fictions 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, and Wigleaf Top 50 2022. Read Hard Skin from Juventud Press and Kahi and Lua from Alien Buddha. She tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at melissallanesbrownlee.com. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AVAILABLE | | | Purchase your copies of fractured lit volume 1 (stories selected by Kathy Fish) and volume 2 (stories selected by Deesha Philyaw) at your preferred online retailer! | | | | | | | | | | | Fractured Lit
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