The wait is over! The Longlist 2 is here!

This Longlist features another 100 One Sentence Stories that our readers and editors picked. All the entries (including the 100 stories from Longlist 1) will be featured in our upcoming anthology in Print and Digital formats.

We sincerely apologise for the long wait. For this call alone, we received an incredible 2,362 submissions from 103 countries, and it took us quite some time to read, consider, and delve into each of them. We wanted to give every submission the attention it deserved.

Our longlist has been carefully prepared by a team of six readers and two editors, who spent considerable time engaging with the submissions and making the selections.

The Hemlock’s Open Calls :

Issue 12 (Winter 2026) : Accepting Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Non Fiction and Art/Photography submissions. Open Until November 30th

Novelette Submissions : Send your longer work of fiction (7,000 to 15,000 words) and get your solo book published and cash prizes! Open Until December 31st

Upcoming Opportunities for Writers!

• Fiction Writing Contest (up to 3,000 words) – Opens on November 15th
• Micro Poem Contest opens November 15th
• Short Story Creative Writing Workshop by Asha Ponnachan – Applications open on November 1st

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Longlist 2 (One Sentence Stories)

1. Shabnam Bhowmick – Untitled
2. Tanay – Untitled
3. Napoleon Wells – Dreams May Come
4. Kent Koprowicz – Keepsake
5. Muhammad Ikram – Until Next Time
6. Mariel Nocete – Untitled
7. Shalinee Bahadur – Decolonial Until you Disagree
8. Kathleen Allen – Untitled
9. Irem kırbıyık – Balance
10. Aaron Wilder – Untitled
11. Elene Vlachou – Untitled
12. Nidhi Prabhu – Unending Journey – Director’s cut
13. Dr. Maria K Jimmy – Untitled
14. Pragya Dhiman – Untitled
15. Palak Guha – A Sheep’s Dream.
16. Jed Cartwright – Self worth
17. Nasrin – They defended U.S.
18. Emmanuel Osadolor – Partisans in Genocide
19. Mila Issolah – The Oldest Scam
20. Cheyenne Lewis – Untitled
21. Debranjan Ruj – Vaccine for Depression
22. Manav Jalan – Iridescence
23. Rodrigo Pinto – The blind clockmaker
24. Sharon B. Houser – How Quickly Life Can Change
25. Mahipal Baid – The Lathicharge
26. Kosar Aliakbarzadeh – Oranges
27. Niteesh Pandey – The last joke
28. Aishwarya Balasubramanian – Untitled
29. Shoukkiya Fahim – The price
30. Mandy Dahl – Untitled
31. Johanna Antar – Untitled
32. Nalini Rao – Untitled
33. Nandana Pal Chowdhury – Untitled
34. John Kyle O. Gepiga – Untitled
35. Suzanne Raby – Black Scratches
36. Sri Charani Nitta Nitta – Borrowed Tomorrow
37. Chioma Andeh – Untitled
38. Hala Taha – Untitled
39. Damir Vujnovac – Lonely Chimneys
40. Mehrdad Ahmadi (Atash) – In front of Their Courage
41. Manvi Wahane – Deadly Love
42. Marilina Nyabol – BUM, BUM
43. Barnice Agenyo – Fowl play
44. Saba Ikram – Untitled
45. Kishwar Bare – Articulation lessons
46. Madalina Angelescu – Once
47. Aleksandra Szymczak – The phoenix
48. Uchechukwu Margret Chiemeziem – The One Who Remembered.
49. Fatemeh Talesh – Bitter fact 
50. Muneeza Batool – Suicide 
51. Naheshwari – Paradox
52. Aditi Saha – The Last Act Of Development
53. Ishān Aggarwal – Ours was never ours alone
54. Elena Kostic – Untitled
55. Khamsay Luangpraseuth – The Soulless Return
56. Ume Rubab – Untitled
57. Saanvi Saxena – The Life Before Life
58. Sadia Hakim – Poet Of The Moonless Nights
59. Daroda – The Sky Is Free
60. Angela Umoru-David- Untitled
61. Maanvi Chawhan – White, Wet Lies
62. Roya Asadi – Untitled
63. Arnab Sengupta- Open/Close
64. Re’al Bakhit – Tourists and Clotheslines
65. Rand Hamid – To you, who held me
66. Saadia Nasim – The Difference
67. Hasti Sadeghi – What Neither Could See
68. Waniya Yassin – The golden boy 
69. Luden Gray – Untitled
70. Solmaz Fakhim –Andromeda 
71. Pooja Dewashree Wagle – The Coronation Silk
72. Lilly – Untitled
73. Ojasvi Nath – Crayons
74. Esther Adegboyega – Untitled
75. Kakoli Ghosh – Jump into the story
76. Abas – Author and the protagonist
77. Abdulrahman Amirah Sadia – Realization
78. Darci Bysouth – Infinity
79. Sophie Swatman – The Decision
80. Seyed Abbas –The ditch
81. Daksha Shankar- Where green once grew
82. Aura Duta Sheva – Untitled
83. Jeza Belle – Untitled
84. Kavisha Sharma – Woodwork
85. Anshika Bisht – Blood Unshed
86. Hifza Ejaz – Brittle Strength
87. Shelly Yang – The Rubied Crown
88. Ubongabasi Iyanam – Mother’s Guilt
89. Srijan Sinha – Untitled
90. Ravika Sinha – Tomorrow
91. Parham – Mourning the Indian Ocean 
92. Alexander Cors – Dance, Floor! Dance! (The Gay Bar Diaries #4)
93. Mohammad Amin – Running Away
94. Lane Graciano – Endgame
95. Grace Theresia – The Sleeping Beauty
96. Shilpa Satish – Pride Blinds All
97. Julie Engelhardt – Untitled
98. Melina – A Whisper of Freedom
99. Ajay Mathur – Untitled
100. Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman – Sexperience