2023 AWARD WINNERS
“College Boy and the County Fair,” Christopher Notarnicola – BEST MICROFICTION
“Breaker,” Aaron Sandberg – BEST MICROFICTION
2023 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINEES
“Roadkill,” Marty Keller
“A Detailed Representation of Flames,” Thomas Mixon
“Balls & Planets,” Tomas Moniz
“See Ruby Falls,” Sutton Strother
“Strategy,” Kari Treese
2023 BEST MICROFICTION NOMINEES
“Being microcosms of the whole,” Emily O Liu
“After He Talks With God, Abraham Sees His Nephew’s City…,” Abe Mezrich
“College Boy and the County Fair,” Christopher Notarnicola
“On Retraction,” Colette Parris
“Breaker,” Aaron Sandberg
2022 AWARD WINNERS
“A Man on the Street Offers Me a Cooked Shrimp,” Andrea Frazier – BEST SMALL FICTIONS
“Traci with an i,” Veronica Klash – WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST
2022 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINEES
“Mother’s Obake Shivers Under Your Bed,” Melissa Llanes Brownlee
“How We Survive,” K.B. Carle
“A Man on the Street Offers Me a Cooked Shrimp,” Andrea Frazier
“Daylight Savings,” Fiona McKay
“She Should See This,” Nadia Staikos
2022 PUSHCART NOMINEES
“How We Were Fiction,” Sacha Bissonette
“Signs of Life,” Audrey Carroll
“The Middle Ages,” Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
“Traci with an i,” Veronica Klash
“Moses in the Chevy,” Jim Kourlas
“Nitrogen Narcosis,” Zoe Raine
2022 BEST MICROFICTION NOMINEES
“Baby is the Big Man, Now” Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
“The Foundation of the Foreseeable Future,” Jeffrey Hermann
“Smoothing the Cranial Curve of a Ghost Skull,” Kristine Langley Mahler
“With Apetite,” Jasmine Sawyers
“One Good Thing,” Claire Taylor
“Chainsaws Don’t Mend Broken Hearts,” Rick White
2021 AWARD WINNERS
“It was 1687 when an apple fell in natural motion,” Tanya Castro — BEST MICROFICTION
“The Corner of My Eye,” Doris Cheng — WIGLEAF TOP 50
“Body of Water,” S.S. Mandani – WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST
2021 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINEES
“Cetacea,” Erin Calabria
“The Breakfast Triptych,” Alexandra Kessler
“Body of Water,” S.S. Mandani
“Fairest,” Star Su
“Before the Apocalypse, the Loss,” Kara Vernor
2021 PUSHCART NOMINEES
“The Editorial Says College Girls Should Just Stop Getting Drunk,” Emily Banks
“A Song About Dogs,” Hugh Behm-Steinberg
“What we Omit,” Victoria Buitron
“The Corner of My Eye,” Doris Cheng
“Instructions for Fucking Your Postpartum Wife,” Megan Pillow
“True Love,” Jennifer Wortman
2021 BEST MICROFICTION NOMINEES
“It was 1687 when an apple fell in natural motion,” Tanya Castro
“Sparrow Haibun,” Kim Ellingson
“The Revivals We Cleave, We Endure,” Vic Nogay
“This Splenda Packet Advises Me, BE THE ENERGY YOU WANT TO ATTRACT,” Carolyn Oliver
“Hollows,” Monique Quintana
“Something Old, Something New,” Lori Sambol Brody
2020 AWARD WINNERS
“The Field of Dead Girls,” by Cassandra de Alba – BEST SMALL FICTIONS
“Horsemouth and Aquariumhead,” by Elizabeth Turner – BEST SMALL FICTIONS
“Something Like Happy,” by Emily Devane – BEST MICROFICTION
“Rehearsal,” by Nuala O’Connor – BEST MICROFICTION
“Velcro Shoes,” by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez – BEST MICROFICTION
“Horsemouth and Aquariumhead,” Elizabeth Turner – WIGLEAF TOP 50
“The Field of Dead Girls,” Cassandra de Alba – WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST
“December,” Evan Nicholls – WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST
2020 NOMINEES FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS
“The Field of Dead Girls,” by Cassandra de Alba
“Propitiation,” by David Drury
“Horsemouth and Aquariumhead,” by Elizabeth Turner
“Perennials,” by Mike Wilson
“Dandelion Skin,” by Jenny Wong
2020 NOMINEES FOR BEST MICROFICTION
“Velcro Shoes,” by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez
“Ernest Borgnine,” by Ian Anderson
“Reimagining: In Which I’m Not a Picky Eater and I Eat,” by Moises Delgado
“Sea Ship Sea Spoon,” by Corey Miller
“Rehearsal,” by Nuala O’Connor
“My Mama Wanted a Zebra,” by Francine Witte
2020 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS
“My Mother is a Plant,” by Tara Campbell
“Pastime,” by Suzanne McWhorter
“Bird Dog Studios, 1962,” by Alice Kaltman
“Context!” by Jose Hernandez Diaz
“The Way Ash Clumps in Bales,” Jennifer Todhunter
“You Don’t Know What’s Important Yet,” by Meghan Phillips
NOMINATIONS FOR BEST OF THE NET 2020
“Context!” by Jose Hernandez Diaz (Poetry)
“Close Down” by Stefani Cox (Poetry)
“When Someone Cuts the Tulips From My Front Yard in the Middle of the Night” by Christine Taylor (Poetry)
“December” by Evan Nicholls (Poetry)
“Sunday Morning Girl” by Gabriela Gonzales (Poetry)
“Smoke Gets in your Eyes” by Lavanya Vasudevan (Poetry)
“The Armadillo” by Joaquin Fernandez (Nonfiction)
“You Know This Has To Be True, Or Else You’ll Dissolve Too” by Hannah Grieco (Nonfiction)
“And No More Shall We Part” by Sutton Strothor (Fiction)
“Friday Soup” by Riham Adly (Fiction)
2019 WINNERS
“The Assimilation of Boyboy Santos,” by Elison Alcovendaz — BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2020
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” by Lavanya Vasudevan — BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2020
“Famous is Always Better Than Dead,” by Tommy Dean — LONGLIST, WIGLEAF TOP 50 2020
“On My Day Off,” by Benjamin Niespodziany — LONGLIST, WIGLEAF TOP 50 2020
“The Heart Sniper’s Tale,” by Blessing Nwodo — LONGLIST, WIGLEAF TOP 50 2020
“Lint Trap,” by Veronica Montes — BEST MICROFICTION 2020 HONORABLE MENTION
NOMINEES FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2020 (PUBLISHED DURING 2019)
“The Assimilation of Boyboy Santos,” by Elison Alcovendaz
“Honey,” by Leonora Desar
“Present Tense,” by Melissa Ragsly
“A Change in New Glarus, Wisconsin,” by Jan Elman Stout
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” by Lavanya Vasudevan
2019 NOMINEES FOR THE PUSHCART PRIZE
“That Motherfucking Light / Cúanto Luz” by Maria Alejandra Barrios
“The Sound of Ice” by Megan Furniss
“Grafton Hill” by Michele Finn Johnson
“Northern Lights” by Hillary Leftwich
“The Heart Sniper’s Tale” by Blessing Nwodo
“There Will Be A Reconciliation” by Shayne Terry
NOMINEES FOR BEST MICROFICTION 2020 (PUBLISHED DURING 2019)
“Watermelon,” by Ellen Ellis
“Lint Trap,” by Veronica Montes — BEST MICROFICTION HONORABLE MENTION
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” by Lavanya Vasudevan
“My Dada is a Bird,” by Adam Trodd
2019 BEST OF THE NET NOMINEES
“Exodus,” Barbara Barrow
“Let’s Sing all the Swear Words We Know,” Anita Goveas
“Everyone Fails,” Siân Griffiths
“Cry, Baby,” M.J. Iuppa
“Attachment Theory,” Lisa Mecham
“What We Deserve,” Wendy Oleson
“Mrs. Dalloway Kind of Day,” Reshma Ruia
2018 WINNERS
“Small Mercies” by Karen Jones — BEST SMALL FICTIONS ANTHOLOGY 2019
“Let’s Sing All the Swear Words We Know” by Anita Goveas — BEST MICROFICTION ANTHOLOGY
WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST FOR 2019 (PUBLISHED IN 2018)
“White Ribbons” by K.B. Carle
“Causality Dilemma” by Sheldon Lee Compton
“The House Lamps” by David Drury
“Moose Lodge #1384” by Lisa Ferranti
“Nine Pancakes” by Melissa Fu
“The Selwyn Place” by Ann Gelder
“The Night Season” by Evan Nicholls
“Limbo Land” by Claire Polders
“Planetary Disappointment” by Kristen Seikaly
2018 PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS
“White Ribbons” by K.B. Carle
“My Mother’s Ashes” by Elaine Chiew
“Small Mercies” by Karen Jones
“Attachment Theory” by Lisa Mecham
“Before the 6:30” by Pete Segall
“The Undecided Colors” by Tara Isabel Zambrano
2018 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINATIONS
“Small Mercies” by Karen Jones
“Standardized Outcomes” by Anne Hensley
“Tigers” by Kathryn McMahon
“Before the 6:30” by Pete Segall
“Touch Tank” by Jan Stinchcomb
2018 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS
“Small Mercies,” by Karen Jones (nominated in the Fiction category)
“Tigers” by Kathryn McMahon (nominated in the Nonfiction category)
“Touch Tank” by Jan Stinchcomb (nominated in the Fiction category)
“The Undecided Colors” by Tara Isabel Zambrano (nominated in the Nonfiction category)
2018 BEST MICROFICTION NOMINATIONS (http://bestmicrofiction.com)
“Jack Rabbit” by Travis Cavey
“Let’s Sing All the Swear Words We Know” by Anita Goveas
“Cry, Baby” by M.J. Iuppa
“Small Mercies” by Karen Jones
“Tigers” by Kathryn McMahon
“The Night Season” by Evan Nicholls
“Pink Sky” by Jon Ransom
“Planetary Disappointment” by Kristen Seikaly
2017 WINNERS AND FINALISTS
“The Eclipse” by Nicholas Cook — BEST SMALL FICTIONS FINALIST!
“Terminals” by Kathy Fish — BEST OF THE NET FINALIST!
WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST FOR 2018
“Staying Afloat” by Madeline Anthes
“The Unwelcome Guest” by E.M. Hubscher
“Falling Leaves, A Sycamore” by Clio Velentza
2017 PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS
“Falling Leaves, a Sycamore” by Clio Velentza
“Born Again” by Michele Finn Johnson
“The Eclipse” by Nicholas Cook
“Imperfect” by Sudha Balagopal
“Us, Anywhere” by Jules Archer
2017 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINATIONS
“Falling Leaves, a Sycamore” by Clio Velentza
“The World’s More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand” by Lori Sambol-Brody
“Born Again” by Michele Finn Johnson
“Terminals” by Kathy Fish
“The Eclipse” by Nicholas Cook — BEST SMALL FICTIONS FINALIST!
2017 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS
“Born Again” by Michele Finn Johnson
“Terminals” by Kathy Fish – BEST OF THE NET FINALIST!
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