Carol Dines’s new young adult novel, The Take-Over Friend, finalist for the Achevan Prize, will be forthcoming from Fitzroy Books October, 2022. Her recent adult fiction, a collection of stories, This Distance We Call Love, won the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, 2022. In addition, her recent stories have been published in Ploughshares, Salamander, Narrative, Colorado […]
It’s contest announcement time! We had a hard time selecting just eight winners to include in our inaugural anthology! Our community is full of talented writers! Please make sure you celebrate yourselves for taking the leap and sharing your stories with us. We’re SO, SO excited to announce the winners of our Anthology Contest! Our […]
If your favorite thing to do is write, then why aren’t you writing? Think about how many words you’ve written, how many classes you have taken, how many chapters you could have if you only had started earlier…This is your passion! How hard can it be to type words onto a page? Just start! This […]
Aaron H. Aceves (he/him) is a bisexual, Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in jmww, Epiphany, and them., among other places. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin, and his debut […]
For a long time, I confined myself to one literary genre. I practiced poetry in a very concentrated, constricted manner that made me classify myself as such. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s powerful to know your strengths, to heighten your skills in a singular area as a means of becoming a master […]
Sophia Kriegel: And we’re back with the second entry in our Writers on Writers series! To refresh: I’m Sophia and I study Creative Writing at Emerson College where I focus mostly on creative nonfiction. Catherine Kenny: Hello everyone! I’m Catherine, and I study Creative Writing at New York University with a concentration in poetry and […]
Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American science fiction and fantasy writer based in New York City. An attorney by day, she also co-hosts Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture. Her stories have been included in the Locus Recommended Reading List, as well as TOR.com’s Must Read list. Her work has been published in […]
Add to Calendar CLOSED We invite writers to submit to the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize from August 1 to October 31, 2022. We’re looking for the best 5,000 words or less of your novel in progress! Have a favorite chapter? An exciting and noteworthy prologue? A section where the dialogue crackles and the characters […]
It is a quiet night, and I am on a magical adventure. You (and my mom) may not think so, as I just look like a little kid “hiding” under the covers, with the glow of a flashlight exposing my secret. I am in my room, but in my mind I am in a castle. […]
I credit a great amount of my inspiration to pursue writing in a more serious manner to a TED Talk I watched in my junior year of high school. Olivia Gatwood, one of my favorite writers then and now, stands on the stage and presents “We find each other in the details”, a discussion about […]
13 Shortlisted Titles! Mr Grim Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark GRIN Bury and Take Root The Lost Coast Motel The Carny Incarcerated A Certain Rectitude Lodged in the Body Buffalo Jill The Violin Flotsam A Detective Story Ritual
Judge Agent CeCe Lyra has made her selections! Congrats to the winners! Thank you to all of the submitters throughout the contest! The shortlisted writers deserve a celebration as well as it’s not easy to make the shortlist! 1st Place: HOMILY by Amanda Baldeneaux: The premise is intriguing: murdered girls begin to unexplainably reappear. Right away, […]