Pushcart Prize Nominees 2023
Fiction
There is Only One Object in the Museum of Darkness by Helen Harjak
Togetherland by Amy Stuber
The Stress on Modern Women by Alyssa Asquith
Poetry
blue jeans | blue beard by Danielle Roberts
Nephthys Again by Marcella Haddad
rabbit’s foot harvest by Robin Gow
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023
Ghouls by Gordon Brown (longlisted)
Superposition by Josh Denslow (longlisted)
The Deaths of the Great Lakes by Jeffrey Hermann (longlisted)
Nails by Julia Kenny (longlisted)
Offering by Laura S. Marshall (longlisted)
Brackish by Eshani Surya (longlisted)
Best New Poets Nominees 2023
Our Place by Yanita Georgieva
All My Dentists Love My Teeth by Elia Karra
Best Small Fictions Nominees 2023
Brackish by Eshani Surya
Superposition by Josh Denslow
1000 by Rob Roensch (selected as a winner)
Betty by Didi Wood
New Forever by Rebekah Morgan
Togetherland by Amy Stuber (selected as a winner)
Best Microfiction Nominees 2023
When Everyone is President by Maryann Aita
My Mother Visits Me in America and is Offended
by What the Dishwasher Can Do by Tara Isabel Zambrano (selected as a winner)
Tongue Depressors by Emily Behnke
Transit by Julia Halprin Jackson
The Deaths of the Great Lakes by Jeffrey Hermann (selected as a winner)
Chickens by Harsimran Kaur
Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize
for Emerging Writers Nominees 2023
Mr. Worldwide by Megan Robinson
Best of the Net Nominees 2023
Poetry
Literary Realism by Ayokunle Falomo
Foodie, Or I Miss Every Hometown Cookout by KB
Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams by Carla Sofia Ferreira
A Small, Private Sadness by Amorak Huey
Old Man in the Kitchen by Audrey Hall
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID? by Dare Williams