Pushcart Prize Nominees 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
Balcones Prize for Poetry 2021
Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard (finalist)
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 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 Nominees 2021
to eat the sleeping sky, whole by Ashley Cline
one day when I become a museum by Juliana Chang
Best Small Fictions Nominees 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
Best Microfiction Nominees 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 Nominees 2021
Oxygenation by Gabrielle Trúc Cohen
10 Facts About a Winter Day, 2021 by Hallie Nowak
Best of the Net Nominees 2021
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