By Caitlin Taylor So I was lucky enough to connect with bestselling author of several Asian American books Katie Zhao to discuss the sequel and final installment of the epic fantasy duology, Descendants of the Zodiac. Zhao’s highly anticipated novel, Zodiac Legacy, is out now (as of October 7). Zhao expertly intertwines her Chinese heritage […]
This contest is now closed. We look forward to reading your stories! It’s time for our horror writers to send us something that has us checking our back seats, under our beds, and our closets. We’re seeking stories that center around the frightening, creepy, and horrific. And to make things extra spooky, we’re only giving […]
This doesn’t get any easier, narrowing down a large pool of good novel excerpts to a longlist of pieces we wanted to keep reading, with characters we grew to care about in 5,000 words or less. Congratulations to the 31 writers on this list!
So many of our writers and editors love flash fiction, so this is always one of our favorite contests each year. It’s so fun to see these genres played out in stories of so few words! Compression is a great way to increase not only the resonance, but also the creativity in what to leave […]
by Sophie Drukman-Feldstein I remember first encountering Hal Schrieve’s work and thinking, “Oh, ze gets it.” Hal captures, better than almost anyone else I’ve ever read, what it’s like to be a messy, young trans person within a messy queer social scene. In hir new YA novel Fawn’s Blood, ze takes us to a vampire underworld beneath […]
This contest is quickly becoming one of our favorites! There’s just something immediate about a short story that creates its world through cinematic craft moves and detail-rich writing! Judge Rachel Harrison chose three winners, and we decided to publish two others that we couldn’t let go! And congratulations to everyone on the shortlist. We read […]
This contest is now closed. We’re so excited to read these imaginative stories! We invite writers to submit to the What the Wild Carries Prize from August 01 to October 05, 2025. For this contest, we want stories or excerpts of instinct, presence, and the creatures that change us. Drop us into those human and […]
We’re excited to announce the winner of the humor challenge! We laughed, we chuckled, raised our eyebrows, but this is the story we returned to the most! We’re grateful to all the submitters who helped us launch a new genre at Uncharted! The Winner: Selected Apologies to Simone de Beauvoir, Written in Lichen by Tiffany […]
Congratulations to our three co-winners chosen by Judge Laird Barron! See below for the reveal of the shortlisted authors. We hope these manuscripts find great homes in the future! The Co-Winners: The Sailor by K. Wallace King “Redolent of Ellroy and Chandler, but stripped down. Lean, mean, and to the point. I loved the sense […]
By Caitlin Taylor So I had the privilege and pleasure of connecting with acclaimed Vietnamese-American author Jamie Jo Hoang in anticipation of the release of her stand-alone companion book, My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser, out September 23rd of this year. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. In the spirit […]
Congrats to the shortlisted stories and their writers! You’re humor is shining through in these pieces! We’ll be back with the winner of the challenge very soon!
It’s time to write short at Uncharted Magazine! For our Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize, we want your stories of 1,500 words or fewer in all of our genres! So sharpen those pencils and flex those fingers. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $1,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners […]