CRAFT wants your best short fiction! Guest Judge Jess Row will choose three winning stories. The first-place winner will receive a $2,500 award and online publication. We seek short fiction only: 1,000 to 5,000 words in length. Learn more: craft.submittable.com/submit…

New #flashfiction: "There is a new man on the television, standing in a field of rubble. It used to be a school. The dog presses a new button. 'Stay. Good.'" —@jameseymullins craftliterary.com/2026/10/02…

New #creativenonfiction: "To make art is to risk. It is to wrestle the world into something fixed. It is to leave the self and return to it with evidence of the journey." —Beth Kephart craftliterary.com/2026/10/14…

New #fiction: "Years later people told the story as if it had happened to them." —@johnluarca craftliterary.com/2026/10/09…

New #creativenonfiction: "There was always a map in our mother’s lap as we drove over states we’d never imagined before;" —facebook.com/megpokrass craftliterary.com/2026/10/07…

New #interview: "A devoted fan of the lyric essay...I’ve been looking forward to The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay for what feels like a long time. It does not disappoint." —@heartichoke, @hkczerwiec, and @doylejacq craftliterary.com/2026/10/02…

New #creativenonfiction: "What I mean to say is that I have insomnia. What I mean to say is that you had epilepsy. What I mean to say is that we were abused. " —@kintsukroi craftliterary.com/2026/09/25…

New #fiction: "All around you, shadows crouch and waver: of lives passed, lives present, lives yet to come." —@kgnewberry craftliterary.com/2026/09/18…

New #flashfiction: "When you’re fourteen, your cousin Breno begins collecting garbage." —S.C. Pires craftliterary.com/2026/09/11…

New #flashcreativenonfiction: "If there is no box for me, who am I? If I’ve lost two out of four citizenships, who am I?" —@vesnajaksiclowe craftliterary.com/2026/09/04…

New #fiction: "While Titania and Bottom canoodled...while Oberon and Puck hatched their trickery, backstage Rocky introduced me to all the secret hiding places you could find in a theater." —Lydia Weaver craftliterary.com/2026/09/02…

New #creativenonfiction: "My sister became a ghost no one spoke of." —@ amber.wong.129 craftliterary.com/2026/09/03…

New #conversationbetweenfriends: "As a memoirist, I had to accept that my version of the story is only one among many versions of a larger truth." —Renee Gilmore and Kelly Foster Lundquist in conversation craftliterary.com/2026/08/28…

New #fiction: "I wanted her to set me loose." —@horneddaughter craftliterary.com/2026/08/07…

New #hybridinterview: "Plot is a mechanism for releasing information. It’s discovery on a slow drip." —Diane Josefowicz in conversation with Shara Kronmal craftliterary.com/2026/08/21…

New #essay: "Readers want to be curious, to marvel at the story, the characters, relationships, events, and incidents." —@ m.bethzimmer craftliterary.com/2026/08/19…

New #flashfiction: "My happy place was the library in our house. It had two thousand, six hundred and fourteen books, the last time I counted, which was yesterday." —CJ Julisch craftliterary.com/2026/08/14…

Our 2026 Flash Prose Prize is open until September 13! —3 winners: $1K, publication, and a bundle of Rose Metal Press Field Guides —Guest judged by Amy Hempel —Editors' choice selections too Learn more: craftliterary.com/craft-flas…

New #creativenonfiction: "In terms of financial gain, my first bank robbery is a success. By all other measures, it’s a failure." —@justalittleapocalypse craftliterary.com/2026/08/12…

New #creativenonfiction: "Unit B44 was filled with Christmas decorations, there since 2009; my mother spent $15,600 to hide ornaments from my father." —@rtigernyc craftliterary.com/2026/08/05…