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The Best Small Fictions 2019 Nominations

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

On the heels of announcing our 2018 Pushcart Prize nominations, we’re glad to reveal our nominees for The Best Small Fictions 2019 anthology. They are as follows:

Gene Albamonte – “Dispatches from Suburbia” (March/April 2018)
William Beeker – “Angina Pectoris” (September/October 2018)
Kim Hagerich – “Semiboneless” (January/February 2018)
William Hoffacker – “Attempting to Dodge a Scorching Ray, You Roll a 7” (May/June 2018)
Marlene Olin – “Trapped” (March/April 2018)

We hope you’ll check out these flash fictions (again).

2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Congratulations to our 2018 Pushcart Prize nominees! They are as follows:

Kim Hagerich – “Semiboneless” (prose, January/February 2018)
Philip Memmer – “The God of Sky” (poetry, May/June 2018)
Tyler Munro – “Big Bo Goes Boom” (prose, March/April 2018)
Robert James Russell – “Anthropocene Moves” (prose, March/April 2018)
Marvin Shackelford – “Gorgon” (poetry, January/February 2018)
Amie Zimmerman – “midnight vigil for the slick” (poetry, July/August 2018)

Naturally, we think they all should be included in the anthology, and we hope you’ll (re)read these stories and poems.

2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Monday, September 24th, 2018

We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for the 2018 Best of the Net anthology:

Poems
Al Maginnes – “One Trouble With Stories” (May/June 2018)
Amber McBride – “Black Witch Moth (Ascalapha odorata)” (March/April 2018)
Bridget O’Bernstein – “I Think I Hit My Orthodontist Twice” (March/April 2018)
Demi Richardson – “California Burn Ban” (May/June 2018)
Marvin Shackelford – “Gorgon” (January/February 2018)
Robert Wrigley – “Morphine” (March/April 2018)

Stories
Yasmina Din Madden – “A Gook, Not a Chink” (March/April 2018)
Don Malkemes – “Walgreens at Armitage & Albany” (November/December 2017)

Thanks for (re)reading. May they fare well.

The Best Small Fictions 2018 Nominations

Sunday, December 17th, 2017

Congratulations to the authors whose work we’ve nominated for Braddock Avenue Books’s The Best Small Fictions 2018, guest edited by Aimee Bender and slated for publication in September 2018. Our nominations are as follows:

Kim Magowan – “Nepenthes” (September/October 2017)

Chris Murphy – “Your Burning Hair” (May/June 2017)

Jason Thayer – “Your Curse” (January 2017)

Dan Tremaglio – “Short Story Collection Story” (April 2017)

Yun Wei – “The Lady Clock” (February 2017)

Best of luck to them!

2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

A hearty congratulations to our nominees for the 2017 Pushcart Prize. Find them below:

Jasmine V. Bailey – “Texas Journal” (poetry, Apr. ’17)
Aaron Brame – “Self-Portrait as Labyrinth” (poetry, Jan. ’17)
Will Donnelly – “The Urn” (prose, Sept./Oct. ’17)
Stephanie Reents – “Naked Selfie” (prose, Feb. ’17)
Jason Thayer – “Your Curse” (prose, Jan. ’17)
Chrys Tobey – “Because We Were Neanderthals” (poetry, May/Jun. ’17)

We hope you’ll revisit these poems and stories, and we wish the authors luck during the selection process.

2017 Best of the Net Nominations

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

We’re pleased to nominate the following work for the 2017 Best of the Net awards:

Poems
Amy Strauss Friedman – “Autopsy” – Sep. ’16
Adam Edelman – “What I Learned from Dracula” – Dec. ’16
John Gallaher – “Poem for Your Birthday if This Is Your Birthday” – Feb. ’17
Sarah Viren – “Falling” – Apr. ’17
Chrys Tobey – “Letter to My Ancestor” – May/Jun. ’17
Joshua Johnston – “City Hall” – May/Jun. ’17

Stories
William Squirrell – “Z Rats!” – Jan. ’17
Ron Riekki – “America” – Apr. ’17

We hope you’ll revisit these poems and stories. And, as always, we wish the authors luck in the selection process.

Nominations for Braddock Avenue Books’s The Best Small Fictions 2017

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Into the fray we send the following nominees for Braddock Avenue Books’s The Best Small Fictions 2017, guest edited by Amy Hempel and slated for publication in September 2017:

Meghan Callahan – “Epitaphios” (April 2016)

Chad Frame – “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed” (March 2016)

Hillary Leftwich – “Saba on the Shore” (July 2016)

Alice Martin – “Cover Up” (June 2016)

Michael Putnam – “Through Process of Elimination” (December 2016)

We wish them luck in the selection process and hope you’ll re-read them.

2016 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Saturday, October 29th, 2016

Pushcart Prize

We’d like to congratulate our nominees for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. They are as follows:

Micaela Bombard – “Cardinal” (poetry, Sept. ’16)
Jeremy Packert Burke – “The Labyrinth” (prose, May ’16)
Sarah Freligh – “A Civil War” (poetry, Oct. ’16)
W. Todd Kaneko – “Self Portrait as Flash Gordon [Playground Terror Variant]” (poetry, Aug. ’16)
John Searcy – “The Sorrows of Death-Klaw” (prose, Aug. ’16)
Chelsea Laine Wells – “The Creation of Suffering” (prose, Jun. ’16)

Good luck to them during the selection.

2016 Best of the Net Nominations

Saturday, September 10th, 2016

We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for the 2016 Best of the Net awards:

Poems
John Paul Davis – “Passwords” –  Aug. ’15
Hannah Lee Jones – “Erlkönig at Burley’s Field” – Jun. ’16
Robert Lunday – “Generations” – Apr. ’16
Meghann Plunkett – “In Response To A Comment On My Outspoken Nature, That I Have No Manners” – Apr. ’16
Claire Scott – “O.R.” – Feb. ’16
Amanda Silberling – “Afterglow” –  Oct. ’15

Stories
Robert M. Detman – “Building the Perfect Wings” – Feb. ’16
Chad Frame – “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed” – Mar. ’16

May they fare well.

Nominations for Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions 2016

Monday, December 14th, 2015


Congratulations to our nominees for Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions 2016, guest edited by Stuart Dybek and slated to appear in October 2016:

Jacques Debrot – “A Brief History of the Minor Modernists” (November 2015)
Tara Kipnees – “incognito”  (May 2015)
Michelle Meyers – “Beach Boys” (December 2015)
Dylan Taylor – “Gaining on Gethsemane” (December 2015)
Deborah Trowbridge – “Frigid” (August 2015)

One of our nominations from last year–Yennie Cheung’s “Something Overheard”–was included in the inaugural volume, and we’d like to keep the streak alive.