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).

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.