Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category

Best of the Net 2012 Nominations

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Congratulations to our Best of the Net 2012 nominees!

Fiction
Sarah Kokernot – “Sacred Bone”
Ajmal Yourish – “In Gratitude”

Creative Nonfiction
Alicia Catt – “On Lashes”

Poetry
Carroll Beauvais – “You Are Here”
Sarah Carson – “For Valerie”
Eileen Hennessy – “Memorial Day”
Alisha Erin Hillam – “Centered”
Heather Sommer – “Traveler”
Helen Wickes – “What Is Implanted In The Body”

We wish them the best of luck.

Also, we’re going to revive the blog by publishing new book reviews on a weekly basis, so stop by now and then to get the latest from our resident critic Spencer Dew.

Our 2012 Micro Award Nominations

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Congratulations to our 2012 Micro Award nominees:

Peter Tieryas Liu – “Colony”
Jacqueline May – “The Monoliths”

We encourage you to revisit these stories.

Our Pushcart Prize Nominations

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Congratulations to this year’s Pushcart Prize nominees!

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – “ORANGE SOCKS”
Faith Gardner – “Window Woman”
Christopher Miller – “The Jellyfish”
Ian Sanquist – “Great American Novel”
Heather Sommer – “Traveler”
Dan Walsh – “Correspondence”

We wish them luck in the selection process.

Our Best of the Net 2011 Nominations

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for Best of the Net 2011:

Elizabeth J. Colen – “MISSING, FOUND”
Barbara Crooker – ROOM IN NEW YORK, 1932″
Stacia M. Fleegal – “Post-Apocalyptic”
Faith Gardner – “Window Woman”
Kathleen Heideman – “Overlooked Heroine, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Robert Hinderliter – “A Thousand Fires”
C. J. Opperthauser – “Sparrow-sized, The Grave”
Pui Ying Wong – “An Emigrant’s Winter”

We wish our authors luck in the selection process!

decomP’s Nominations for storySouth’s 2011 Million Writers Award

Friday, March 4th, 2011

For storySouth‘s 2011 Million Writers Award, we nominated “The Salesman’s Apprentice” by John Minichillo, “Hanger” by Kat Lewin, and “Colour, letter, ninety degrees” by Monica Carroll. We wish our nominees the best of luck in the selection process! You can view reader nominations here and editor nominations here.

Our 2011 Micro Award Nomination

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

A hearty congratulations to Robert Hinderliter, whose work we nominated for the 2011 Micro Award.

Robert Hinderliter – “A Thousand Fires”

Good luck!

Our Pushcart Prize Nominations

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize nominees!

Tres Crow – “The Devil’s Courtyard”
Stacia M. Fleegal – “Post-Apocalyptic”
Kathleen Heideman – “Overlooked Heroine, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Carrie Lorig – “Bone Woman”
Timothy Raymond – “Renegades”
Amber Sparks – “When Other People’s Lives Fall into Your Lap”

Our Best of the Web 2011 Nominations

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

We’re glad to announce our Best of the Web 2011 nominations, and they are as follows:

Tres Crow – “The Devil’s Courtyard”
John Jodzio – “Guns and Gold”
Pui Ying Wong – “An Emigrant’s Winter”

Best of luck in the selection process!

Our Best of the Net 2010 Nominations

Friday, September 17th, 2010

We’re pleased to nominate the following pieces for Best of the Net 2010 :

Britt Gambino – “Isosceles”
Justin Hamm – “down home”
Keith Kurzman – “Eleison”
Halli Melnitsky – “The Ascension of Soft Bright Things”
Jasmine Neosh – “The Rube Goldberg Pacemaker”
R Jay Slais – “In Every Loss I Found”
Amber Sparks – “When Other People’s Lives Fall into Your Lap”
Catherine Zickgraf – “Magpie”

We wish them luck in the selection process!

decomP Makes storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009 List

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

We at decomP are psyched that Laura Isaacman’s “Barnacles” made the list of storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009. You can view the full list here.

We’d also like to congratulate decomP contributors whose stories in other pubs made the cut: Z. Z. Boone, Mel Bosworth, Roxane Gay, Alicia Gifford, Richard Grayson, Tai Dong Huai, Tara Laskowski, Ben Loory, Nick Ostdick, Angi Becker Stevens, Jesse Tangen-Mills, Andrew S. Taylor, and Kevin Wilson.

Today at the d HQ we’re sifting through the book reviewer applications. We’re hoping to reach and announce a decision soon.