Fiction and Poetry

Here at Crayon, we believe fiction & poetry are natural pairings to the visual arts.

We’re looking for immersive writing rooted in escapist and timeless themes – concepts such as beauty, nature, memory, and more. We regularly host prompt-based submissions for writers, and you can read more of our fiction here

BUOYANCY Fiction

It comforted her to share so much time with someone who experienced the world so visually, as slices of reality that could hold deeper meanings and potentialities, different to her linear approach, the approach of the reasonable being, constantly interpreting events and concepts that lay outside her immediate purview.

A HOLIDAY MEMORY FROM THE YEAR 2043 Fiction

“The following story was published in the Letters to the Editor section of The Record International in the year 2056 in response to the prompt, “What is your most powerful holiday memory?”

LITERARY LOVE Fiction

“Contrary to popular opinion, reading love poems outside a window at midnight isn’t the best way to apologise and win someone over.”

THE TEARS OF THE UNHOLY Fiction

I am a leaf tossed by a raging sea, battered against the jagged rocks of their desire, stripped of even the power to slip below the waves into eternal darkness. More days than not, I wish I could.

WINDOW, AMSTERDAM Fiction

In this reclusive recess he can be at peace and focus his thoughts on quiet contemplation, just as old Trappist monks might, he imagines, in their own quiet chambers.

DANCE Fiction

She knows contemporary dance, which I think is chaotic but she says there’s beauty in chaos and I agree with her because ma’am has read many books and because her lips are the reddish-brown color of udala seeds.

KINTSUKUROI Fiction

I hope you still remember, forest bathing, when you go deep into the woods and everything is breathing and growing and living; your father rushed into the woods, the night of the fire, with bare feet, water and a prayer

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