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 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
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Bird Sounds by Lilly Posnett
- cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown
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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
- 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
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)