We nominate our contributors work for literary prizes.
Here are links to the pieces we nominated.
Click on the titles to read.
Best of the Net
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
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
2025
Growing Pains – P.J. McCarthy
Daylight Saving – Jupiter Jones
My Little Monster – Martha Hipley
Thin Place – Justine Sweeney (currently only in print)
Albuquerque Blue – RM Soutar (currently only in print)
2024
Grandpa Gave Birth to an Easy Chair – Gale Huxley
The Unknown Life of Luiza – Leigh Loveday
Good For a Dead Girl – Beth Sherman
Shopping for Two – Jenny Hart
Trespasser, Singular – Alex Herod – SELECTED FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2025
Best Microfiction
2025
When We Walked Out At Sowing Time – Sarah Royston
I Stole a Piece of Lava Rock from Craters of the Moon National Park – Timothy C. Goodwin
Platform – Joe Luscombe
Southeast of Soho – Terry Holland (currently only in print)
Narnia – Bronwen Griffiths (currently only in print)
Genrepunk Awards
2025
Wixton Fen – Sophia Adamowicz
Baboon – Allan Miller
Last Year I Got My Septic Done – Dan Weaver
Things My Mama Taught Me – Jude Potts
The Mercurial Whore – Heather Haigh
Tag Number Forty-Two – Andrew Monge
Flocks – Gavin Turner
Mother Perfect – Linda M. Bayley
Monarch Queer Literary Awards
2025
Catfishing – Cole Beauchamp
The Year of Dead Dads – Mike Piero
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