Exploring the art of prose. Short & flash fiction, creative nonfiction, craft essays, interviews, & more. CRAFT Short Fiction Prize deadline: November 15, 2026.
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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 #interview:
"I was thinking of architects who have an unbelievable amount of constraints—climate, natural disaster, basic use, value, expectation. And then the novel, which has no expectations, and all of the pressure is unnecessary."
—Morgan Day
craftliterary.com/2026/10/30…
New #conversation:
"I’ve always loved essays—and I’ve always loved work that blurs the edges of genre. I think the idea of genre-blurring was what let me feel like I could try my hand at an essay or two."
—@catherinepiercepoet with @michael.kardos
craftliterary.com/2026/10/28…
New #interview:
"The first writing prompt I ever received in a creative writing class was Susan Lohafer’s: Write about something you regret."
—A. Kendra Greene
craftliterary.com/2026/10/23…
New #craftessay:
"The craft lesson here isn’t 'always start from a distance.' It’s 'understand what narrative distance can do.'"
—Darryl J. Benjamin
craftliterary.com/2026/10/21…
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 #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…
