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Awards

November 2023

We’re thrilled to learn that The Green Before Her by Donna Spruijt-Metz was a finalist for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award from Cave Wall Press!

June 2023

We don’t say ‘I love you’ in this family by Lucy Zhang by has been included in Best Small Fictions 2023! Congrats, Lucy!

The full list of selected pieces can be found here.

February 2023

We’re so excited to celebrate with Janna Miller and Eric Scot Tryon! Their pieces from Whale Road Review were selected for publication in Best Microfiction 2023. Congrats, Eric and Janna!

What Bones Carry by Janna Miller
I’m a Honda Odyssey, I’m a Chrysler Voyager by Eric Scot Tryon

January 2022

Congratulations to Diane Payne! Her story Years from our Summer 2021 issue has been accepted for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2022!

March 2021

We’re thrilled (but not surprised) that the editors of Best Small Fictions 2021 also loved and accepted Maria S. Picone’s Procedures for Moving House in the Sims 4. Congrats, Maria!

January 2021

We nominated work for Best Microfiction for the first time in 2020, and we were honored to have two pieces selected. Congratulations to Christopher Linforth and Cathy Ulrich!

Finale by Christopher Linforth
And I Still Remember How Your Hands Were So Much Larger Than Mine by Cathy Ulrich

June 2019

Congratulations to Sarah Broussard Weaver, whose prose poem Morning After from our Summer 2018 issue has been selected for the 2019 volume of The Orison Anthology!

March 2018

We’re thrilled to have a poem that we nominated from our first anniversary issue chosen for Best of the Net 2017!

The Valium Bride by Scherezade Siobhan