2008 Nominees
Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Patrick Kelling - “Propping Frisco”
David LaBounty - “a poem about faith and tomorrow”
Five Star Literary Stories
Patrick Kelling - “Propping
Frisco”
Pushcart Prize
John Dorsey - “fragments whispered to a pretty girl in spring”
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted”
Andrew Hall - “Intake”
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Jennifer E. Hudgens - “bukowski waxed my legs”
Patrick Kelling - “Propping Frisco”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Rob Donald - “Una Hamburguesa en la Cabeza”
Bradley Michael Hamlin - “Jacques & Pierre”
Ben Tanzer - “PaintWriteDeathLifeArt (Sketches from a Life
in Art)”
2009 Nominees
Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Jeannie Galeazzi - “Aeronauts”
Stefan Kiesbye - “Home”
Jessa Marsh - “My Motel Week”
Micro Award
Z. Z. Boone - “Bad Living”
Daniel Casebeer - “Pinot Noir”
Pushcart Prize
Simon Barker - “Tarzan of the Danube”
Ronald Fink - “East End”
Justin Hamm - “at sixteen”
Don Hucks - “Inbound Number 6”
Jen Schalliol - “Eating Dirt”
Evan White - “Delay of the Herd”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted’
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Chris Mohar - “Cigarettes”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2008
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted”
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - “A SHORT HISTORY OF UNUSUAL FISH”
Kristin Dombrowski - “Bog”
Kira Hesser - “inertia / inner / in her”
Heather Momyer - “Dead Dog”
Adam Moorad - “Star-Spangled Enterprise”
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. - “Scientist Mad”
Iftekhar Sayeed - “the early mangoes”
Buff Whitman-Bradley - “Aerial Intercourse”
Sundress’s Best of the Net Finalist
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - “A SHORT HISTORY OF UNUSUAL FISH”
The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2009 Long Shortlist
Sam Pink - “II.”
2009 Winners
The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing
Bradley Sands - “In the Restaurant”
2010 Nominees
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Frank Hinton - “Comorbidity”
Laura Isaacman - “Barnacles”
Jessa Marsh - “My Motel Week”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009
Laura Isaacman - “Barnacles”
The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2010 Long Shortlist
Tara Laskowski - “Only a Number”
Ben Loory - “Picasso”
Michelle Reale - “Hunger”