The Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction Longlist is out! Congratulations to the 45 stories that were selected. The committee is currently crafting the shortlist, which will then be judged by Claire-Louise Bennett, Ottessa Moshfegh, & Joanna Walsh. We are honored to support the prize, and look forward to seeing the judges’ choices.
Apocatastasis | Archipelago | Blue Noise | Camera Obscured | Animals in the Forgotten Room | No Scrubs | Subterranean | Disaster Preparedness Test, Ex Post Facto | The Thousand Lives of Judas Iscariot | Fear | Five Men and a Pony | Flaktürme Wien | Flowers | Lamination/1 | Marten | Mzungu | Natural Language: | Only Carbs | Our Broadcast Day | Our Men Are Fighting | Potlacth | Puddle | Root | Saint Josse | Slug | Sokoban | Splitting the Atom | Springtime | Stroking the Metal | Swim in the Sea | Tap Tap | The Hole | The Reckoning | The Bear | The Bucket | The Gourmand | The Horse Next Door | The Last Cicadas | The Orchid Ward | The Original Mother | The Shoe Factory | The Twelfth Letter | This History of Violence | Tuesday Wednesday | You Break Your Soul in Like New Shoes
Learn more at desperateliterature.com
