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Fractured Lit Anthology 4Morgan Talty (Selected by)PaperbackFractured Lit's fourth annual anthology, judged by Morgan Talty, hosts another cast of engaging and enlightening flash fiction stories written by today's finest practitioners of the craft of short short stories. In this year's anthology, readers will find stories that take them into the shadowed corners of our world, illuminating the often overlooked and forgotten to remind us of who we could be in the best and the worst of times. These stories sparkle with their attention to language and detail and will entertain readers long after the last sentence. Each story has the power and the heart to stop the clock and to give the reader a sense of living another life or two.
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Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 3Peter Orner (Selected by)PaperbackFractured Lit's bold new anthology offers readers twenty new flash fiction stories. Each story will transport you to someplace new, in setting, or in your heart and mind, entertaining and beguiling until you've read each story.
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Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 2Deesha PhilyawPaperbackFractured Lit is looking for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading. We're searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. We want the stories that explode vertically, the flash that leaves the conventional and the clichéd far behind. Fractured Lit is a flash fiction-centered place for all writers of any background and experience. This collection is the product of the Fractured Lit Anthology 2 Prize in 2022, judged by Deesha Philyaw. Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
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Fractured Lit Anthology Vol. IKathy FishPaperbackWe invite writers to submit to the Fractured Lit Anthology 1 Prize from February 19 to April 19, 2021. Guest judge Kathy Fish will choose 20 prize winners from a shortlist. 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. Kathy Fish has published five collections of short fiction, most recently Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Washington Square Review, and numerous other journals, textbooks, and anthologies. Fish's "Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild," was selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 and the current edition of The Norton Reader. Her newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, provides monthly craft articles and writing prompts and is free to all. Subscribe here: https: //artofflashfiction.substack.com. Fractured Lit is looking for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading. We're searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. We want the stories that explode vertically, the flash that leaves the conventional and the clichéd far behind. Fractured Lit is a flash fiction-centered place for all writers of any background and experience. Good luck and happy writing!
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