Best of the Net

2026
Empty Nest by Bill Merklee
The Flora of the Dead: A Triptych by Nastasya Parker

2025
In the Fullness of Time by Ian Johnson
Smoking a cigarette with your Nana outside Cousin Linda’s baby shower by Stephanie Torrance

2024
Cubby by Anthony Neil Smith

Pushcart Prize

2026
COMING SOON

2025
into stones, into water, into clouds by Frances Gapper
Singapura – September 1972 by Adele Evershed
What Comes to Light by Gill O’Halloran (currently only in print)
Waking Beauty by Stephanie Carty
When I Was Born, My Mother Ate My Placenta by Mairead Fagan

2024
Excerpts from my Zombie Diary by Tracie Adams
Did You Know if Sheep Fall on Their Backs, They Die by Adele Evershed
Kodak Moment by Jupiter Jones
The Scavenger by Martha Lane
Still You by Helen Lyttle
Cockling by Mairead Fagan

Best Small Fictions

2026
The Foundling by Clara Cooke
Objects of Sentimental Value by Joyce Bingham
La Perla de Gran Precio by Cuyler Meade
Southend Fallout by Zoe Davis
Second Novel is the Hardest by Shira Musicant

2025
Daylight Saving by Jupiter Jones
Growing Pains by P.J McCarthy
Thin Place by Justine Sweeney
My Little Monster by Martha Hipley
Albuquerque Blue by RM Soutar

2024
Trespasser, Singular by Alex Herod
Grandpa Gave Birth to an Easy Chair by Gale Huxley
The Unknown Life of Luiza by Leigh Loveday
Shopping for Two by Jenny Hart
Good for a Dead Girl by Beth Sherman

Best Microfiction