Longlisted for Fractured Lit's 2025 Elsewhere Prize
A piece I wrote got longlisted for FracturedLit's Elsewhere Prize
The public announcement is up. I can talk about it now. One of my fiction pieces, “This Did Not Matter,” has been longlisted for Fractured Lit’s Elsewhere prize.
Visible traction. Huzzah!
I should find out in the next week or two if I make the shortlist and/or win. I’m honestly happy with just being longlisted. The piece is more accessible than most of my writing, but lacks the human-focus and interiority of past winners, so it’s probably at the edge of their taste-band. It’s cold mythic dread, kinda McCarthic. An exhausted djinn destroys the last inhabitants of a dying desert town, then seeks its own end. Rainbows and unicorns…
We’ll see what happens. I’ll share it when I can.