Note: previously published work is not eligible for some nominations due to award guidelines.
Best of the Net 2024
Poetry
“The Next Time You See Me, I’ll Be Three Feet Taller and Have Cannons Mounted on My Shoulders” by Isaiah Newman
“someday i’ll throw fiona jin off a building” by Fiona Jin
“Memoir of a Twerk, Read to a Dark Room” by Nadine Hitchiner
“ഓളങ്ങള് (Olangal)” by Letitia Jiju
“Mourning six things before breakfast” by Ankh Spice
“Aswang Duplex II” by Noreen Ocampo
Fiction
“First Summer” by Reema Rao-Patel
“Another Universe’s Jen & Gary” by Nick Gregorio
Nonfiction
“Subdural Hematoma” by Leela Raj-Sankar
“for the harvest moon” by Ari Koontz
Art
“Ent Wife” by Liz Baxmeyer
“windowsill” by Taylor Yingshi
“Tea Moon” by Amy Marques
Best Small Fictions 2023
“Instinctual” by Marissa Higgins
“Irr-” by Senna Xiang
“Escapology” by Miceala Morano
“Primaries” by Sarp Sozdinler (SELECTED, judged by Catherine McNamara and Nathan Leslie)
“Police Chowki” by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Pushcart Prize 2023
“Let us live in a 1989 Lenox Spice Village” by Clarice Lima
“Haunted House” by Gabriela Gonzales
“House of Mirrors” by Sam Haviland
“Identity Theories” by Adrian S. Potter
“AUTUMN 2005” by Jacqueline Xiong
“The Lurching Horror of Kennewick Road” by Sage Tyrtle
Best Microfiction 2023
“I’d Love to Hear Your Thoughts” by Candice Kelsey
“Wonder of the World” by Lauren Voeltz
“Freedom, defined” by Rasha Barrage
“晋源” by Jiaqi Kang
“Road Trip” by Allison Thung
“In My Father’s Square” by Rosemary Jones
Best of the Net 2023
Poetry
“American Bodies” by Cassandra Whitaker
“Lore” by Andy Lopez
“To Be Bound” by Sophia Liu
“Rhythm 0” by Maria Gray
“Portrait of a Young, Southern Queer Man” by Samuel J Fox
“Ophelia Drowns in A Motel Pool” by Emma Buckley
Fiction
“Writing Myanmar” by Matt Hsu
“Saviors, Spells, and American Tragedies” by Ra’Niqua Lee (SELECTED, judged by Shayla Law)
Nonfiction
“Nature’s Classroom” by Victoria Buitron
“How to Disintegrate” by Carlos Contreras
Art
“Embody” by Quinn Valentine
“Genesis” by Aileen Xie
“My body is no longer a weapon” by James Diaz
Best Small Fictions 2022
“Virgin, Punctuation” by Avalon Felice Lee
“Warm Milk” by Lindy Biller
“First Date” by Kelle Schillaci Clarke
“Holy Spaces” by Iris Preaker
“Flat Out Fabulous” by Courtney Clute
Best Microfiction 2022
“The Day Captain Cook Missed Hawaii” by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
“red essay” by Sheng Kao
“Gravity” by Jason B. Crawford
“DISSECTING THE MOON AS A SHITTY LOVER” by Jaiden Thompson
“Rust Belt Triptych” by Lauren Kardos (SELECTED, judged by Tania Hershman)
Pushcart Prize 2022
“Through Meadows” by Eric Stiefel
“The Archaeology of Dryer Lint” by Marissa Glover
“How to Play By Ear” by Andy Lopez
“Like Déjà Vu” by Alyssa Jordan
“On Writing Conferences” by Erica Jenks Henry
“Felicia Heterophylla” by Will McMillan
Best of the Net 2022
Poetry
“Sea-watching” by Sidney Dritz
“Fish/borne” by Wen Lim
“Rafflesia” by Stephanie Chang
“no missed calls” by Gillian Moore
“Rewriting the Suicide Note” by Kara Knickerbocker
“body aches, nutella crepes, fat-shame & capitalism” by Camille Ferguson (FINALIST, judged by Mai Der Vang)
Fiction
“Slow Winter” by Adelina Rose Gowans
“Flat Out Fabulous” by Courtney Clute
Nonfiction
“Mother, May I?” by Meg Mahoney
“Power Outage” by Yuliia Vereta
Art
“Envy” by Paul Negri (SELECTED, judged by Rhonda Lott)
“Eden” by Sofia Musa (FINALIST, judged by Rhonda Lott)
“Inside Outside Unnamable Books” by Meridith McNeal