Nominations

We love all the pieces we publish and wish we could nominate them all for everything, but since we have to choose, here are our award nominations.

Best of the Net 2022

• All the King’s Puppets and All the King’s Strings by Avra Margariti
• Amber Rose by J.B. Stone
• Der Bibliophile by Nicola Davison
• Granddaddy at War by Barbara Diggs
• Kaala Paani by Mandira Pattnaik
• RRS Discovery by Struan Gow
• The Peony Hairpin by Q.Y. Tie
• This is not a story about my grandfather by Salena Casha

Best Small Fictions 2021

• Cords by Isabelle B.L
• Footprints in Water by Robert Barrett
• Granddaddy at War by Barbara Diggs
• 1916 by Jac Harmon
• Tapeworm by Kristen Loesch

Pushcart Prize 2021

• Footprints in Water by Robert Barrett
• Granddaddy at War by Barbara Diggs
• Hunger by Claire Loader
• The Sort-of True Story of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria by Hannah Hoare
• Tapeworm by Kristen Loesch
• Tussaud by Noa Covo

Best Microfiction 2021

• The Consort of the Closed Fists by Lixin Foo
• Cords by Isabelle B.L
• Granddaddy at War by Barbara Diggs
• 1916 by Jac Harmon
• Tapeworm by Kristen Loesch
• We, the Dental School Nurses, 1960 by Frankie McMillan

Best of the Net 2021

• Bird Sounds by Lilly Posnett
• cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown
• Gibbet by Mark Cassidy
• In The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE by Tara Isabel Zambrano
• 1916 by Jac Harmon
• November by Sarah Freligh
• Tapeworm by Kristen Loesch
• We, the Dental School Nurses, 1960 by Frankie McMillan

Best Small Fictions 2020

• November by Sarah Freligh
• Erased by George L. Hickman
• cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown
• Ébauche, Esquisse, Étude, Tableau by Nuala O’Connor
• Soul Theft by Remi Skytterstad

Pushcart Prize 2020

• rEVOLt by Mileva Anastasiadou
• Invisible by Winston Bribach
• Awake Since ’78 by H. A. Eugene
• Erased by George L. Hickman
• Something That Can Never be Held by Cathy Ulrich
• In The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE by Tara Isabel Zambrano

Best Microfiction 2020

• Windows by Ranjabali Chaudhuri
• Beating the Herring by Marie Gethins
• cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown
• Bird Sounds by Lilly Posnett
• Foundering by Matthew Richardson
• Soul Theft by Remi Skytterstad

Best of the Net 2020

• Wolf Moon by Jude Higgins
• Down the Long, Long Line by Mary-Jane Holmes
• Compost by John Nicolson
• Infanta by Carolyn Oliver
• Moon Burial by Johanna Robinson
• Soul Theft by Remi Skytterstad
• Gene Cernan Boards the Apollo 17 Lunar Module by Stutton Strother
• Bedlam by Jo Withers

Forward Prize for Poetry 2020

• Down the Long, Long Line by Mary-Jane Holmes

Best Microfictions 2019

• Oh, Be a Fine Girl Kiss Me by Donna L Greenwood
• Bedlam by Jo Withers
• Down the Long, Long Line by Mary-Jane Holmes
• Tar i leith by Ali McGrane

Best Small Fictions 2019

• Down the Long, Long Line by Mary-Jane Holmes
• Ice Man by Jan Stinchcomb
• Nonna No Name by Rachael Dunlop
• Of Chinwoke by Adachioma Ezeano
• Wolf Moon by Jude Higgins

Pushcart Prize 2019

• Nonna No Name by Rachael Dunlop
• The Essex Girl by Michelle Hemstedt
• Iceblink by Mary Morrissy
• The Writer’s House by Caroline Greene
• It’s Raining Today by Mark Left
• Freedom Pass by Tamsin Cottis

Best of the Net 2019

• Of Chinwoke by Adachioma Ezeano
• The Partitioning of Dreams by Susmita Bhattacharya
• The Convert by Clio Velentza
• Tar i leith by Ali McGrane
• Why I Left You That Day in a Pawnshop by Riham Adly

VERA 2018

• Tyn by KB Carle

 

Best Small Fictions 2018

• Footsized by Sarah Peploe
• Red Eye by Lee Hamblin
• Santo Spirito by Michele Finn Johnson
• The Bathtub by Amy Slack
• Tyn by KB Carle

Best British and Irish Flash Fiction Autumn 2018

• Gutted by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
• Ogdens by Gaynor Jones
• Plum Jam by Frances Gapper

Pushcart Prize 2018

• Balm by Charmaine Wilkerson
• Declaration by Madeline Anthes
• Eleanor’s Last by Nuala O’Connor
• Promiscuous by Elizabeth Burton
• Tyn by KB Carle
• You May Hear of a Killing by Becca Borawski Jenkins

Best Microfiction 2018

• Declaration by Madeline Anthes
• Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand by Anita Goveas
• Gutshot by Peter Jordan
• Marie Curie’s Kitchen by Ellen Goldstein
• Phoenixes by Sophie van Llewyn
• Promiscuous by Elizabeth Burton
• There Will Be No Lace by TM Upchurch
• Tilda Always Did Love Her Flowers by Christina Dalcher

Best British and Irish Flash Fiction Spring & Summer 2018

• Eleanor’s Last by Nuala O’Connor
• Footsized by Sarah Peploe
• Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand by Anita Goveas
• The Partitioning of Dreams by Susmita Bhattacharya

Best of the Net 2018

• Gutshot by Peter Jordan (short story)
• Tyn by K.B. Carle (short story)
• Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand by Anita Goveas (poetry)
• Phoenixes by Sophie van Llewyn (poetry)