The January Fiction Potluck Challenge is: About an Egg
Send your best story in under 5,000 words.
This is a fiction-only challenge.
A tip from our guest judge, Madelyn Postman:
Your story could be speculative, historical, humorous. The sky (or the shell?) is the limit—anything from well-observed mundane to the bizarre. Perhaps throw in an unreliable narrator for an added twist! Carefully consider your narrative arc: what’s changing over the course of the story?
About our guest:
Madelyn Postman writes literary and some speculative short stories that link memoir with the intergenerational tales of her family: Chinese and Eastern European Jewish immigrants to California. Her work features in the inaugural Hope Prize anthology, published by Simon & Schuster Australia, as well as in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize anthology and in Livina Press. She is American and lives near London with her husband and two teenage children. You can find her on Instagram and X as @the16stories and at madelynpostman.com.
Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
Transformations
This quarter’s challenge is officially sponsored by Duotrope. The first place winner of this quarter’s challenge receives Duotrope service for free for two years (valued at $100)!
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Deadline: February 20
