Storyfort 2026 Micro Fiction Contest: “The Future of our nature”
Write a story. Win a Treefort pass.
Open to all.
Opens 7:00pm (MST) December 4, 2025
Closes 2:00pm (MST) February 20, 2026
Stonecrop is now accepting submissions for the 10th annual Storyfort Microfiction writing contest. Writers are encouraged to send their microfiction on the theme, "The future of our nature.”
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 Treefort passes, get their stories published in the spring issue of Stonecrop, and are invited to read their winning pieces at Storyfort.
This year’s guest judge will be announced shortly.
Look for Stonecrop on Facebook, Instagram, and online:
www.stonecropmag.submittable.com/submit
www.treefortmusicfest.com/forts/storyfort/
Theme and Guidelines
1. This year’s prompt invites writers to submit microfiction that explores the “future of our nature.”
Nature is an inner force that drives us, tripping the wires of our instincts, desires, and appetites. It lives and breathes; the wild calls to us, and we call it Mother. Our nature encompasses the natural world, but also our dispositions, temperaments, and essential characters. Our complicated digital lives yearn for a return to nature and the promise of simplicity and independence. We live in harmony with our nature or in conflict against it; it impedes our progress or aids it; our nature inspires or terrifies. Look into the future. What do you see? What do you feel? What will our nature be in ten years? Fifty? Two hundred?
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 09, spring 2026. All winners are invited to read their winning submissions during Storyfort 2026 and at the launch party for Stonecrop 09.
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"