Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Saturday, January 17th, 2015
We’d like to congratulate our nominees for Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions of 2015, the inaugural anthology in what is to be an annual series, slated for publication in October 2015:
Yennie Cheung – “Something Overheard” (December 2014)
Melissa Ostrom – “Gravity” (December 2014)
Raul Palma – “A Captain’s Retirement” (March 2014)
Ron Riekki – “Acquired” (February 2014)
Matthew Robinson – “The Crossing” (January 2014)
Naturally, we hope these stories make the cut.
Tags: Matthew Robinson, Melissa Ostrom, Queen's Ferry Press, Raul Palma, Ron Riekki, The Best Small Fictions of 2015, Yennie Cheung
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
Congratulations to our 2014 Pushcart Prize nominees! We hope you revisit these six pieces. How many of them do we expect to win a Pushcart? Not one, not two, not three…
Kevin Casey – “Thunderheads” (poetry, October ’14)
Sophia Holtz – “Apocalypse Party” (poetry, October ’14)
Raul Palma – “A Captain’s Retirement” (prose, March ’14)
Sarah Pape – “Against the Eggshell” (poetry, June ’14)
Caleb Tankersley – “The Oak Tree” (prose, May ’14)
Marcelle Thiébaux – “Motoring” (prose, May ’14)
…not four, not five, not six. Actually, yeah, six.
Tags: Caleb Tankersley, Kevin Casey, LeFlop, Marcelle Thiebaux, Pushcart Prize, Raul Palma, Sarah Pape, Sophia Holtz
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Saturday, September 27th, 2014
Congrats to our 2014 Best of the Net nominees! We hope their work is selected but, as they say, it’s an honor just to be nominated…unless you happen to be Leonardo DiCaprio.
Poems
Will Arbery – “Write a Historical Poem” – Nov. ’13
Lisa J. Cihlar – “Apiary” – Oct. ’13
Krystin Gollihue – “The Spine” – Sept. ’13
Claire Kelly – “Nests” – Sept. ’13
Laurie Patton – “Floor” – Nov. ’13
Ali Shapiro – “Leave Me Alone But Take Me With You” – Sept. ’13
Stories
Raul Palma – “A Captain’s Retirement” – Mar. ’14
Caleb Tankersley – “The Oak Tree” – May ’14
We hope you reread these poems and stories. See you soon for our annual Pushcart nominations.
Tags: Ali Shapiro, Best of the Net, Caleb Tankersley, Claire Kelly, Krystin Gollihue, Laurie Patton, Lisa J. Cihlar, Raul Palma, Sundress Publications, Will Arbery
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Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Congrats to our 2013 Pushcart Prize nominees! We hope you (re)read these pieces, and we wish the authors luck in the selection process.
Ilya Leybovich – “Final Days of the Third Directorate”
Katherine MacCue – “The Swans”
Amanda Jane McConnon – “Parts Left Whole”
Nathaniel Kennon Perkins – “An Unfolding”
Jeanann Verlee – “How did your mother die?”
Luke Wiget – “Violins”
Tags: Amanda Jane McConnon, An Unfolding, Final Days of the Third Directorate, How did your mother die?, Ilya Leybovich, Jeanann Verlee, Katherine MacCue, Luke Wiget, Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, Parts Left Whole, Pushcart Prize, The Swans, Violins
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Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Congrats to our 2013 Best of the Net nominees! We hope they fare well in the selection process.
Poems
Leisha Douglas – “Tentative” – July 2012
Evan Iresmith – “Private Speaking” – November 2012
Amanda Jane McConnon – “Parts Left Whole” – May 2013
kelly schirmann – “hunter gatherer” – December 2012
Jeanann Verlee – “How did your mother die?” – March 2013
Meredith Weiers – “This, Too, Shall Pass” – July 2012
Stories
Nathan Holic – “Submission Guidelines” – November 2012
Graham Tugwell – “A Caring for Creatures” – May 2013
Next up: Pushcart nominations…
Tags: Amanda Jane McConnon, Best of the Net 2013, Evan Iresmith, Graham Tugwell, Jeanann Verlee, kelly schirmann, Leisha Douglas, Meredith Weiers, Nathan Holic
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
For the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award, we’re pleased to nominate “The Fireman” by Peter DeMarco, “Sacred Bone” by Sarah Kokernot, and “Athame” by PD Mallamo. The competition will be fierce, and we wish the best of luck to our nominees. Readers can submit their own nominations here, and editors’ nominations are here.
Tags: Athame, PD Mallamo, Peter DeMarco, Sacred Bone, Sarah Kokernot, storySouth Million Writers Award, The Fireman
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Saturday, April 27th, 2013
As we reported earlier, Garrett Ashley’s “The History of Character X,” Sam Cha’s “The Conference of the Birds,” and Annam Manthiram’s “The Discrepancy Equation” will be featured in The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, which is now available for pre-order via Amazon and will be released on May 25, 2013. You can also add it to your queue on Goodreads. Congrats to the authors involved!
Tags: Annam Manthiram, Garrett Ashley, Goodreads, Lake Forest College Press, Sam Cha, The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, The Conference of the Birds, The Discrepancy Equation, The History of Character X
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
Congratulations to our 2012 Pushcart Prize nominees!
Peter DeMarco – “The Fireman”
Leisha Douglas – “Tentative”
Sandra Irwin – “Loss”
PD Mallamo – “Athame”
Joe Miller – “Conquest [translation]”
Daniel M. Shapiro – “Thomas Kinkade Drops by Andy Warhol’s Grave, Bethel Park, Pa., 2/22/07”
We wish them luck in the selection process.
Tags: Athame, Conquest [translation], Daniel M. Shapiro, Joe Miller, Leisha Douglas, Loss, PD Mallamo, Peter DeMarco, Pushcart Prize, Sandra Irwin, Tentative, The Fireman, Thomas Kinkade Drops by Andy Warhol's Grave
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We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for the 2015 Pushcart Prize: