Pushcart Prize Nominees 2024
Fiction
Mrs. Frankenstein by Gwen E. Kirby
City People by Benjamin Warner
Near the End of Their Lives, Barbie and Ken Question Their Existence by Jo Withers
Poetry
Amazon Reveals Feature That Teaches Alexa to Sound Like Your Dead Loved Ones by Todd Dillard
The National Park Service Warns Us Not to Lick the Psychedelic Toad by Carla Sofia Ferreira
Taxidermy by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024
Five Micro Stage Plays by Benjamin Niespodziany (longlisted)
Skeletons in the Closet by Rina Olsen (longlisted)
Last Day Cupcakes by Jeffrey Yamaguchi (longlisted)
Best New Poets Nominees 2024
Taxidermy by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Shark Body by Josephine Wu
Best Small Fictions Nominees 2024
Like Real Women Do by Avitus B. Carle (selected as a winner)
Daddy Issues by Aileen O’Dowd
Adversity is the Parent of Virtue (in Bed) by Stephen Cicirelli
The Werewolves of Camp Emerald Lake by L. Soviero
Last Day Cupcakes by Jeffrey Yamaguchi (selected as a winner)
Best Microfiction Nominees 2024
Screenland by Jacques Debrot
Lake Day & Emerald Ocelot by Joe Gallagher
Four Stories by Tiffany Hsieh
José Martí in 2023 by Chip Livingston
Swallowing Teeth by Zhu Yue,
Translated by Jianan Qian and Alyssa Asquith, Illustrated by Jianan Qian
Best of the Net Nominees 2024
Poetry
rabbit’s foot harvest by Robin Gow
All My Dentists Love My Teeth by Elia Karra
Comet as Paperboy by Samantha Blysse Haviland
Haibun for a Day in the Life of a Hikikomori by Jemma Leigh Roe
The Emmy Goes to the Seagull, Flying off with a Hot Wing… by Khadjiah Johnson
In Response to Question No. 3 by Susan Barry-Schulz