We had so much fun reading for this unique contest! The collision of nature and humanity was felt throughout every story in this contest! Here are our longlisted titles of 34 stories we couldn’t let go of! We’ll have our shortlisted titles out in the next week, and those will be shipped off with care […]
By Caitlin Taylor So I was thrilled to ask Jennifer Lynn Alvarez, award-winning author of young adult thrillers and middle-grade fantasy, some questions about her most recent exhilarating thriller, The Trespassers out today! Four childhood friends. One night they’ll never forget. It’s a snowy Valentine’s Day and Mya invites Finley, River, and Eli to her […]
Here are the excerpts moving on to the shortlist and for Judge Cynthia Pelayo’s review! Congratulations to the 15 writers on this list!
We’re so excited to announce the winners of this contest! It’s not easy to tell a story in the flash form, let alone as a genre story, which usually needs some, if not a lot, of world-building. We hope you enjoy these little, but bright starbursts of stories. 1st Place: There Must Be Something Left […]
By Caitlin Taylor So There’s a tingling chill in the air that can only mean one thing: fall is upon us and so are these five upcoming October releases. Wrap yourselves in sweaters and blankets and reach on over for these books. Meet the Descendants of the Zodiac in a world where magic intertwines with […]
This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted! We invite writers to submit to the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize from October 15 to December 14, 2025. Each year, novel excerpt submissions are some of our favorite narratives to read. We love to be swept away into magnetic worlds full of drama […]
Our shortest stories of the year are down to the shortlist! It wasn’t easy (and it never is), but we’re excited for these writers! We’ll be back shortly with the winners!
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 […]