Storyfort 2025 Micro Fiction Contest
Write a story. Win a Treefort pass.
Open to all.
Opens 7:00pm (MST) November 1, 2024
Closes 12:00pm (MST) February 14, 2025
College of Western Idaho’s literary magazine, Stonecrop, is proud to collaborate with Storyfort, a branch of Treefort Music Fest held in downtown Boise, Idaho, to host this writing contest. All are invited to participate. The top three winners receive prizes and get their stories published in the spring issue of Stonecrop.
A guest Storyfort writer will judge this year's contest. Check back for more information.
Look for Stonecrop on Facebook, Instagram, and online:
www.stonecropmag.submittable.com/submit
www.treefortmusicfest.com/forts/storyfort/
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Guidelines
1. Stories must begin with one of the following first lines from upcoming Treefort artists (omit artist and song title from submission). Select lines will posted before November 1, 2024.
2. Maximum length is 500 words.
3. $5 reading fee for each entry
4. All submissions are anonymous. Name and contact details must not appear on the submissions.
5. No submissions accepted from staff or organizers of Treefort Music Fest, Storyfort, Duck Club, or Stonecrop.
Prizes (non-transferable)
1st place: 5-day Treefort pass
2nd place: Single day Treefort pass
3rd place: Storyfort shirt and SWAG
All winning submissions will be published in Stonecrop magazine's Issue 08, Spring 2025. All winners are invited to read their winning submissions on the final day of Storyfort 2025 and at the launch party for Stonecrop 08.
Congratulations to our 2024 Storyfort Micro Fiction winners!
1st Place: Sue McMillan “Lights Out”
2nd Place: Paisley Davis “Handled”
3rd Place: John Barrie “Obsolete”
Congratulations to our 2023 Storyfort Micro Fiction winners!
1st Place: Sonya Feibert "How to Disappear Your Anger"
2nd Place: Sue McMillan, "Follow Your Heart"
3rd Place: Lorena Alvarado, "To Love the Rain"
Congratulations to our 2022 Storyfort Micro Fiction winners!
First Place: Suzanne Samples, “The Orbital Distance of Love, or the Night You Became Jupiter”
Second Place: Maya Grubaugh, “Incarnations”
Third Place: John Barrie, “Flicker”
COngratulations to the 2019 Contest winners!
1st Place: Joseph Sigurdson, “Staying Afloat”
2nd Place: Matt Naylor, “Dead Dogs and Swimming Pools”
3rd Place: John Barrie, “The Hunt”
2019 Storyfort Micro Fiction Judge
REEMA ZAMAN
As featured in The New York Times, Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, and actress, and the 2018 Oregon Literary Arts Writer of Color Fellow. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Thailand, and presently residing in Oregon, she holds a double BA in Gender Studies and Theater from Skidmore College. Her wildly acclaimed memoir I Am Yours will be released February 5, 2019. Beloved by all communities, all ages, all genders, I Am Yours has already been adopted into the curriculum for several high schools through an Innovation Grant from the Oregon Department of Eduction.
Micro Fiction 2018 Winners
First Place: Caitlin Bullock, "Colorwheeling"
Second Place: Gabrielle Nelson, "Gosling"
Third Place: Amy Burton, "Bad Reputation"