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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
Rescheduled for 8/13/2025! As writers ourselves, we know how invigorating and inspiring it can be to hear from successful genre writers who have found a way to finish their drafts and get their projects into the hearts and minds of readers far and wide. Benjamin Percy may have started in the literary fiction space, but […]
It’s always a delight to open up to a new genre and see how our submitters respond to an exciting challenge! Comedy of any kind is hard to pull off, but it’s especially difficult when it’s solely on the page. We’re excited to add these 19 title to our longlist, while we continue to review […]