Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025
If it’s Not One Thing It’s A Million Things by Jeffrey Hermann (longlisted)
Pushcart Prize Nominees 2025
Fiction
Duck Girls by Nicole Hart
Sorry, but you’re mistaking me for her by Anita Harag, Translated by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry
Darryl by Rebekah Morgan
Poetry
How to Wash a Rabbit by Sara Eddy
Cancellations by Grace Marie Liu
A Poem Buried Under the Floorboards by Amanda Roth
Best Microfiction Nominees 2025
Volunteering & In Some Ways I Have Changed by Hedgie Choi
All Children Eat Their Mothers & I Saw a Man Kill Himself by Mea Cohen
The Notes Left Behind on Grandfather’s Desk by Michelangelo Franchini
Best Small Fictions Nominees 2025
Boy Crazy by Brittany Ackerman
Stitch by Allison Field Bell
The Machine by Dana Jaye Cadman
this because dog is god spelled backwards by Erinola E. Daranijo (selected as a winner)
I’ve Been Getting Letters from Santa for Twenty Years
and All I’ve Learned Is He’s an Asshole by Nicola Koh (selected as a winner)
Dadoo by Skyler Melnick
Mollusk by Didi Wood
Best of the Net Nominees 2025
Poetry
Loneliness Is Retraining as a Life Coach by Jen Feroze
The National Park Service Warns Us Not to Lick the Psychedelic Toad by Carla Sofia Ferreira
Body Horror by Court Ludwick
Poem that Begins with Two Lines from a Power Bar Wrapper by Owen McLeod
A House on Two Legs by Kendra Marie Pintor
The Man with the Third Ear by Ann Weil