Quarterly Micro-fiction
Many thanks to all the writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the micro-fiction pieces we have selected as the winners in our quarterly competition.
If you would like us to consider your micro-fiction, please submit here.
Enjoy!
Kelsey Austin is a writer of plays, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. She earned her MA in Literature: Theatre and Drama at Essex University in Colchester, England. Kelsey’s plays have been developed through residencies and staged readings across the United States. Her short fiction appears in The Closed Eye Open, Half and One, and Bending Genres. Kelsey’s creative flash nonfiction is soon to appear in Wild Roof Journal.
Jaime Gill is a British former music journalist, now working for nonprofits across Southeast Asia. He writes, reads, runs, boxes, and occasionally socialises. His stories have appeared in Missouri Review, The Forge, Sun Magazine, Trampset, Fractured, Pithead Chapel, and others. He’s won multiple awards, including a 2024 Bridport Prize and the 2025 Luminaire Prose Award, and been a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Prize and Bath Short Story Award.
