2027
BEST SMALL FICTIONS- NOMINATIONS
Social Niceties by Benjamin Drevlow
No Wolves on Long Island by Mario Aliberto III
Yard Sale, Furniture and Appliances, May 27-28, 2026 by Bradley David Waters
How to Cook Lamb When All You Can Think Of Is Death by Linda M. Bayley
Dying to See Oliver by Angela Joynes
BEST OF THE NET - NOMINATIONS
POETRY
dil shikastagi - Sumayya Arshed
Dendrochronology of Scars - Anne Walters
Mothered - El Johnson
Ophelia - Karina Longo
Knotweed - Dawn Rhodes-Shaw
You Haunt My House - Holly Taylor
FICTION
No Wolves on Long Island - Mario Aliberto III
Yard Sale, Furniture and Appliances, May 27-28, 2026 - Bradley David Waters
NON-FICTION
Ice cream - Cath Schikkerling
Instructions to a Young Child When Grandmom Burns Your Arm - LM Fontanes
ART
Horse - Fhionna Love McGeechan
The Making of a Daddy - Luanne Castle
The Geometry of Becoming - Rashan Speller
dil shikastagi - Sumayya Arshed
Dendrochronology of Scars - Anne Walters
Mothered - El Johnson
Ophelia - Karina Longo
Knotweed - Dawn Rhodes-Shaw
You Haunt My House - Holly Taylor
FICTION
No Wolves on Long Island - Mario Aliberto III
Yard Sale, Furniture and Appliances, May 27-28, 2026 - Bradley David Waters
NON-FICTION
Ice cream - Cath Schikkerling
Instructions to a Young Child When Grandmom Burns Your Arm - LM Fontanes
ART
Horse - Fhionna Love McGeechan
The Making of a Daddy - Luanne Castle
The Geometry of Becoming - Rashan Speller
2026
BEST SMALL FICTIONS- NOMINATIONS
Alone in an Endless Blue by Nina Miller
There Isn’t Much Left by Kleopatra Olympiou
Press and Slide by Jen Eve Thorn
Happy Meal by Sumitra Singam
BEST MICROFICTION - NOMINATIONS
How You Know Your Dad’s Heart is in the Military by Chris Cottom
Press and Slide by Jen Eve Thorn
She sleeps to the sound of the night train by Bronwen Griffiths
Dressed as a Donut by Swetha Amit
PUSHCART PRIZE - NOMINATIONS
Body by Kelsey Coletta
Interstices by Kip Knott
On Italian Grass by Jennifer McMahon
The Bone Gods by Rebecca Tiger
The Moth That Stayed by Huina Zheng
The Worst Memories by Melissa Flores Anderson
BEST OF THE NET - NOMINATIONS
POETRY
MDD by R S Kendle
Van Diemen’s Land by Oliver Kleyer
Almost Boy by Grant Shimmin
To My Sister by Katharine Weinmann
In Mourning by Louis Faber
The Weaning Crazies by Katrina Moinet
MDD by R S Kendle
Van Diemen’s Land by Oliver Kleyer
Almost Boy by Grant Shimmin
To My Sister by Katharine Weinmann
In Mourning by Louis Faber
The Weaning Crazies by Katrina Moinet
FICTION
There Isn’t Much Left by Kleopatra Olympiou
Dressed as a Donut by Swetha Amit
NON-FICTION
I Should Write the Letter by Tracie Adams
Send Bread by Angela Townsend
2025
BEST SMALL FICTIONS - NOMINATIONS
Five Weeks, Six Days by Angie Brady
Pink by Emily Macdonald
When Jen Attends Her Class Reunion by Alison Wassell
Take me Home by Caroline Ashley
The Music of Rain by JP Relph
BEST MICROFICTION - NOMINATIONS
Going Nowhere by Amy Marques
Take me Home by Caroline Ashley
In Death as in Life by Fiona McKay
Trevelyan’s Corn by Seán McNicholl
A Series of Asanas by Sudha Subramanian
PUSHCART PRIZE - NOMINATIONS
All the Details You Hope to Someday Forget by Lisa Thornton
Dancing Tigers by Srilatha Rajagopal
I'm Not Thinking About by Heather D Haigh
Just Another Night by G. Lynn Brown
The Heart Is an Open Wound by Mario Aliberto III
The Warped Jigsaw Piece by Marie-Louise McGuinness
BEST OF THE NET - NOMINATIONS
POETRY
A Rambling Meditation by Oliver Kleyer
The Poem in Which I Am Not Sexually Assaulted by Anne Walters
Things I Can Never Teach My Daughter by Audrey T. Carroll
Beatrice’s Purgatory by Katrina Moinet
Celestial Engineering by Alicia Cara
Matrescence by Holly Harrison Cline
A Rambling Meditation by Oliver Kleyer
The Poem in Which I Am Not Sexually Assaulted by Anne Walters
Things I Can Never Teach My Daughter by Audrey T. Carroll
Beatrice’s Purgatory by Katrina Moinet
Celestial Engineering by Alicia Cara
Matrescence by Holly Harrison Cline
FICTION
The Packed-Too-Early Bag by Maria Thomas
The Highway by Rachel Laverdiere
NON-FICTION
One Sentence by Megan Hanlon
Dragon Wings, For Bella by Vati Sreiberg
The Packed-Too-Early Bag by Maria Thomas
The Highway by Rachel Laverdiere
NON-FICTION
One Sentence by Megan Hanlon
Dragon Wings, For Bella by Vati Sreiberg
ART
Figures by a Chamber Door by Steven Ostrowski
Ancient Paths by Amanda Young
Found Sound by Luanne Castle
2024
BEST MICROFICTION - NOMINATIONS
No New Messages and Nine Saved Messages by Joyce Bingham
Milk Drunk by T.L. Tomljanovic
Seeking the Edges by Rachel Canwell
Today I Counted by Emily Macdonald
No One Is Coming to Save Me by Rachel Laverdiere
BEST OF THE NET - NOMINATIONS
POETRY
The Scar by Holly Harrison Cline
Boys on the Beach by DLC Hanson
Don’t Believe Anything They Say by Sonja Berry
This Is How I See Her by Ivona Coghlan
What Would I Say to My Depression by R S Kendle
Bandaged Heart by Diana Kurniawan
The Scar by Holly Harrison Cline
Boys on the Beach by DLC Hanson
Don’t Believe Anything They Say by Sonja Berry
This Is How I See Her by Ivona Coghlan
What Would I Say to My Depression by R S Kendle
Bandaged Heart by Diana Kurniawan
