Best of the Net 2021:
Fiction:
The Reality Star Gets Her Start on a Dating Show by Kyra Kondis
Jumping the Shark by Jennifer Wortman
Poetry:
Teratoma* by Keshe Chow
Portrait of a Womb as Painted by Flies by Ashley Dailey
Meeting Octavio Paz on the Planet Jupiter by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Goblin King’s Love Language by Rita Feinstein
my mouth is full of words i don’t know by Monica Kim
Anatomy of a House Fire by Stella Lei
Balcones Poetry Prize 2021:
Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard (finalist)
Wigleaf Top 50 2021:
The Prognosticators by Matthew Burnside (longlisted)
Alice in Voreland by Lauren Friedlander (longlisted)
text message to alexia from a cleveland clinic waiting room before an electromyogram by Matt Mitchell (longlisted)
There’s a Trick with a Knife by Megan Phillips (longlisted)
Best New Poets 2021:
to eat the sleeping sky, whole by Ashley Cline
one day when I become a museum by Juliana Chang
Best Small Fictions 2021:
10 Facts About a Winter Day, 2021 by Hallie Nowak
Opossum by Michael Czyzniejewski
I’ll Allow It Maybe Just This Once by Jeff Chon (selected as a winner)
American Movie by K-Ming Chang
Whale Watch by Gabrielle Griffis
Pushcart Prizes 2021:
Fiction:
The Sad Song in Every Story by Mileva Anastasiadou
Emily, Don’t by Kelsey Ipsen
Oxygenation by Gabrielle Trúc Cohen
Poetry:
When he asks me to try doggie style, I think by Madeleine Corley
Lately by Emry Trantham
one day when I become a museum by Juliana Chang
Best Microfiction 2021:
B is for Balls by Kara Vernor (selected as a winner)
Alice in Voreland by Lauren Friedlander (selected as a winner)
Stranger Disconnected by Darren Nuzzo (selected as a winner)
One Fist Holding by Dustin M. Hoffman
The Chorus in My Walls by Elisabeth Ingram Wallace (selected as a winner)
There’s a Trick with a Knife by Meghan Phillips (selected as a winner)
Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers 2021:
Oxygenation by Gabrielle Trúc Cohen
10 Facts About a Winter Day, 2021 by Hallie Nowak
Best of the Net 2020:
Fiction
Trees Like a Way Out by Jennifer Fliss
Ladybird, Ladybird by DeMisty Bellinger
Poetry
Strange Furniture by Lannie Stabile
Buzz Drunk by Tara Campbell
Lycopene in Scale by Matthew DeMarco
What Jupiter wrote to Ganymede after years of separation by Satya Dash
Elusive Shadows by Steve Castro and Daniel Romo
When His Surgeon Called and Asked If I Had Questions by Jacqueline Hughes Simon
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2019-2020:
We Feed Them to the Lions by Paul Thompson (selected as a winner)
Wigleaf Top 50 2020:
The Giant by Joaquin Fernandez (selected)
Port Town/El Pueblo del Puerto by Édgar Omar Avilés (translated by Toshiya Kamei) (longlisted)
A Quick Word About My Life by Trent England (longlisted)
Breast Roulette in Utero by Jennifer Todhunter (longlisted)
Best New Poets 2020:
Country Song Erasures by Kit Armstrong
Email to My Boyfriend When Rent Is Due by Micaela Walley
Best Small Fictions 2020:
Ordering Fries at Happy Hour by Christopher Gonzalez
here is the whole history of us chapter one by Amanda Claire Buckley (selected as a winner)
Martin Moves In by Ellen Rhudy
The Angle of Depression by Patricia Q. Bidar
The Candy Children’s Mother by A.A. Balaskovits (selected as a winner)
Pushcart Prizes 2020:
Fiction
Dead? Yes, Dead by Amy Stuber
The Right Light by Janelle Bassett
You Don’t Have a Place Here by Anna Vangala Jones
Poetry
Country Song Erasures by Kit Armstrong
How to Love a Monster with Average-Sized Hands by Jules Archer
Things People Have Written in Letters to Ghosts by Chloe N. Clark
Best Microfiction 2020:
Bears by Tom Jenks
Signature by Nicholas Grider
you again by Monique Quintana
A Quick Word About My Life by Trent England (selected as a winner)
Port Town/El Pueblo del Puerto by Édgar Omar Avilés (translated by Toshiya Kamei)
Squirrels in the Attic by Jenny Fried
The Unreliable Narrator Apologizes by Chris Haven
She’s Been Living in the Attic for Who Knows How Long by Steve Chang
Best of the Net 2019:
Fiction
Hello There, Talk Show Host by Nicholas Grider
A Tremendous Head, Uneasy by Nell Ovitt
Poetry
Delayed Lightning by Benjamin Niespodziany
Our love will stretch to cover this in time by Jeni De La O
Desireé Panda and the Lee Van Cleefs by Tracy Lynne Oliver
A Wrinkle in Grief by Savannah Slone
Directions by Jeffrey Yamaguchi
Email to My Boyfriend When Rent Is Due by Micaela Walley
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019:
Drink Like a Bird by Meg Pokrass (selected as a winner)
Clapping by Sarah Salway (selected as a winner)
Wigleaf Top 50 2019:
No One Holds a Grudge Like a Crow by Marisa Crane (selected)
Bear by Shayne Terry (selected)
Ganymede by Chelsea Harris (longlisted)
Madlib by Kim Magowan (longlisted)
Big Bad by Mary Hamilton (longlisted)
Best Small Fictions 2019:
Early Intervention by Colleen Rothman
No One Holds a Grudge Like a Crow by Marisa Crane
A Nearly Beautiful Thing by Cathy Ulrich
Madlib by Kim Magowan (selected as a winner)
Segmented Moments by Hannah Gordon
Pushcart Prizes 2019:
Fiction
Escalator by Dan Sanders
Teethings by Deena Lilygren
Outline by Darrin Doyle
Poetry
A Seal Skull Seems To Be a Wolf Skull by Erin Rice
Desireé Panda and the Lee Van Cleefs by Tracy Lynne Oliver
Prey by Christine Taylor
Best Microfiction 2019:
The Flat by Michael Alessi
A Gun in the First Act by Scott Garson
Feeding Time by Tara Isabel Zambrano (selected as a winner)
Birds of a Feather by Tianna Grosch
Madlib by Kim Magowan
Plan Exclusion by J. Bradley
Big Bad by Mary Hamilton
Natural Resources by Anita Goveas
Best of the Net 2018:
Fiction
The Flat by Michael Alessi (selected as a finalist)
Ganymede by Chelsea Harris
Poetry
A Seal Skull Seems To Be a Wolf Skull by Erin Rice
The Lazarus Questionnaire by Ted Mico
Last Night in Antsville by Sharon Suzuki-Martinez (selected as a finalist)
Webster’s Dictionary defines “communist” as “one who speaks with ghosts” by Brian Dau
