Pushcart Prize Nominees 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
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 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 Nominees 2020
Country Song Erasures by Kit Armstrong
Email to My Boyfriend When Rent Is Due by Micaela Walley
Best Small Fictions Nominees 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)
Best Microfiction Nominees 2020
Signature by Nicholas Grider
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 Nominees 2020
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