2024 Best Small Fictions Nominations (New!)
Meaningful Work — A Personal Essay by David Henson
Mr. Jacob’s Lipstick by Elizabeth Murphy
The Little Bell by David Osgood
This Town by Jeanine Skowronski
2024 Best Microfiction Nominations
Overheard in the AI Chatroom by Steven French
Bird of Open Landscapes by Kathryn Ganfield
2024 Pushcart Nominations
The Cougar in the Attic by Melissa Fitzpatrick
Real Things that Have Happened to Me at Gas Stations by Jeffrey Hermann
The Yeti Who Lives Alone In The California Suburbs by Eliot Li
2024 Best of the Net Nominations
Fiction/Stories:
At the Witch’s House by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
CNF:
Fang-Flashing by Miriam Mandel Levi
Of the Same Flesh by Melissent Zumwalt
Prose Poems:
The Short Lives of Wombats by Koss
Morning Love Song (Pianissimo) by Abby Manzella
That Day The Sun Was Over Us by Colette Parris
Happy and Free From Care by Goldie Peacock
2023 Best Small Fictions Nominations
We’re Still Here by Abbie Barker
Easier Softer Ways by James Mattise
Maybe This One by Robert Garner McBrearty
Meeting Not George Thorogood by Will Musgrove
Crossing The Line by Brian Sutton
2023 Best Microfiction Nominations
Instagram by Matthew J. Andrews
Exhibit 829 C – Frivolity Threats by Christie Wilson
2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Not Enough Sheep by Amy Marques
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Matthew Moniz
2022 Best of the Net Nominations
Fiction:
Insects on Parade by Sage Tyrtle
CNF:
800 Fill by Kelli Short Borges
Prose Poetry:
Swamp Thing Tries to Remember Sleep by Jack B. Bedell
The Longest Day by Jude Higgins
1418 York Lane by Vince Montague
2022 Best small fictions nominations
The Weight of Grieving by Ron Burch
A Centrifugal Wish by Pat Foran
Rain Must Fall by Aimee Parkison and Meg Pokrass
Ganesh and Southern Maid Donuts by Rudri Bhatt Patel
Best microfiction 2022 nominations
Swamp Thing Tries to Remember Sleep by Jack B. Bedell
Last Night I Dreamed You Fed Me Box Jellyfish Salad by Kip Knott
In Conclusion by Mercedes Lawry
Medical Emergency at Marfa Dollar General by Daryl Scroggins
2022 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Hang ‘Em in the Sky by Brett Biebel
The Sky is Blue by Margaret King
Bus Person by Claire Rychlewski
2021 Best of Net Nominations
Stories:
Ink Drinker by Bethany Holmstrom
Rubber Horsey Heads by Luke Rolfes
Prose Poems:
Flat Earth Theory by Munira Tabassum Ahmed
Mother, Mama, Sister, I by Claudine Cain
Eternal by Tara Isabel Zambrano
2021 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Alone Together by Corey Miller
Unarmed by Abdulbaseet Yusuff (Winner! In the Anthology!)
Best Microfiction 2021 Nominations
I tow our house by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Eternal by Tara Isabel Zambrano
2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations
She Sits Alone by Eduardo Martínez Báez
Rubber Horsey Heads by Luke Rolfes
How to Become a Real Man by Shaemus Spencer
Grandfather by Anthony Varallo
2020 Best of Net Nominations
Stories/Flash Fiction:
Philip, at a Standpoint, Experiences Transcendence by Amanda Leahy
Creative Non-Fiction:
Prose Poems:
I tow our house by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
2020 Best Small Fictions Nominations
How Cold the Morning, How Heavy the Waltz by Pat Foran
Synonyms for Extraction by Sabrina Hicks
Hot Line by Lawrence Schimel, translated (from Spanish) by Sandra Kingery
2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations
It’s Only Reflected Light by Virginia Eggerton
How Cold the Morning, How Heavy the Waltz by Pat Foran
Excerpts from Homage to Green Tea by Ian Haight and T’ae-yong Hŏ, translating Ch’oŭi (1786-1866)
Best Microfiction 2020 Nominations
Dissolve by Santino Prinzi (Winner! In the Anthology!)
Cubism by Daryl Scroggins (Winner! In the Anthology!)
Captain, My Captain by Sheree Shatsky
Best of the Net 2019 Nominations
Stories:
A Date with The Scream by Neil Clark
Dancing at the Backdoor by Jon Ransom
Prose Poems:
Ballet Girls by Alicia Bakewell
The Saddest Sailor by Temim Fruchter
How to Write About a Man Who Is Not Your Lover by Thomas Kearnes
2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations
For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn by J. Edward Kruft
Going to Disneyland by Jeff Nazzaro
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Mail-Order Bride by Elaine Chiew
The Saddest Sailor by Temim Fruchter
King of Infinite Space by Ethan Leonard
Mechanical Nirvana by Aditya Shankar
Best Microfiction 2019 Nominations
A Whisper of Words by Steve Campbell
The Fairground by Stephanie Hutton
One-Hundred and Fifty Dollars by Tiffany Meuret
Breathlessness by Claire Polders WINNER! (In the anthology!)
The View from Here by Cathy Ulrich
Big Enlightenment by Jennifer Wortman
Best of the Net 2018 Nominations
Stories:
Business As Usual by Gaynor Jones
Prose Poems:
The Fairground by Stephanie Hutton
A Man Without a Vineyard by Charles Lennox
Breathlessness by Claire Polders
Mechanical Nirvana by Aditya Shankar
Best Small Fictions 2018 Nominations
The Wolf Wears Jeggings by Georgia Bellas FINALIST! (Winner’s List)
Business As Usual by Gaynor Jones
It Is Cold and Night by Ben Slotky
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