Best New Poets Nominees 2026
Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler
Breaking News: Barbie Eats Trump During Baltimore Pride Fest by Chrissy Stegman
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2026
On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61 by Patricia Q. Bidar (selected)
Fireflies by Rina Olsen (selected)
Love Me Like a Reptile by Rachel Lastra (longlisted)
All the Friends I Could Have Made Are Having Fun Without Me by MacKenzie Magee (longlisted)
You Be the Flotsam, I’ll Be the Jetsam by Melissa Rudick (longlisted)
Pushcart Prize Nominees 2026
Fiction
Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike by M.M. Kaufman
All The Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Poetry
Vanishing Twin by Jessica Ballen
feelings come & go but teeth are forever by Kristin Lueke
The Summer I Watched “Boyfriend takes care of you while sick ASMR Videos on Repeat” by Danielle Shorr
Best Microfiction Nominees 2026
We Wear Suits by Lavina Blossom
Dark Circles by Amber Burke (selected as a winner)
Miracle Grow by Amber Burke
Travel & Leisure by Linda Drach
Poor Cheryl by Rachel Lastra
Best Small Fictions Nominees 2026
Marriage by Amber Burke
98. by Jordyn Damato
The Passing of a Little More Than a Year by Lydia Kim
Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize
for Emerging Writers Nominees 2026
I Found a Stone Under My Skin by Amanda Parrack
Best of the Net Nominees 2026
Fiction
A Reading List for the End of the World by Julia Rose Greider
I’ve Been Getting Letters from Santa for Twenty Years and All I’ve Learned Is He’s an Asshole by Nicola Koh
Poetry
FLORIDA by ALUKAH
I have an existential crisis on realizing my reading list is finite by Karan Chambers
Bright Invitations by Dani Janae
The Signs by Gabe Montesanti
When I Was a Bearskin Rug by Shagufta Mulla
Leaving the Wedding in a Fever by Cassandra Whitaker