Nominations

2022

Best of the Net

Poetry
Gretchen Rockwell for “Ode to Wikipedia“
Erin Little for “Lagunitas“
Kiyoko Reidy for “my little brother tells me he’s a drug addict“
Yashodhara Trivedi for “Empire of Hunger“
Matthew Sumpter for “12:25 AM“
Rebecca Poynor for “Reactivity“

Fiction
Cathy Ulrich for “The Empty Above“
Avra Margariti for “Bodies of Water“

Nonfiction
Kimberly Rooney | 高小荣 for  “Names | 姓名“
Brittany White for “Baldwin, Boğaz, ve Ben“

Pushcart Prize

Poetry
Ahmed Qaid for “The Photograph”
Zackary Medlin for “Landscape with Mother and Police”
Matthew Sumpter for “12:25 AM”

Prose
Star Su for “Color Study”
Tara Zambrano for “Potholes in the Sky”
Lucy Zhang for “Qualia”

Best Small Fictions

Xueyi Zhou for “Faith”
Akhim Alexis for “On the Transit of our Great-Grandmother”
Tara Zambrano for “Potholes in the Sky”
Lucy Zhang for “Qualia”
Mileva Anastasiadou for “Everybody Knows”

Best Microfiction

Lucy Zhang for “Qualia”
Steven Lang for “The Icehouse”
Mileva Anastasiadou for “Everybody Knows”

2021

Best of the Net

Poetry
Gretchen Rockwell for “Ode to Wikipedia” 
Erin Little for “Lagunitas” 
Kiyoko Reidy for “my little brother tells me he’s a drug addict” 
Yashodhara Trivedi for “Empire of Hunger” 
Matthew Sumpter for “12:25 AM” 
Rebecca Poynor for “Reactivity” 

Fiction
Cathy Ulrich for “The Empty Above” 
Avra Margariti for “Bodies of Water” 

Nonfiction
Kimberly Rooney |高小荣 for “Names | 姓名” 
Brittany White for “Baldwin, Boğaz, ve Ben” 

Art
William Crawford for “Traffic Lights as Urban Sculpture” 
Carrie Albert for “Inside a Purple Bouquet” 
Michael Hower for “Green Line” 

2020

Best of the Net

Poetry
Carl Boon for “Rivermonsters” (Summer 2019)
Kevin Burris for “At the Optical Shop” (Winter 2020)
Katherine Hoerth for “Resurrection, Easter Morning” (Spring 2020)
Zebulon Huset for “In the dim garage I drunkenly pry again about the motivation behind his swastika tattoos” (Spring 2020)
Laura Johnson for “in the garden” (Summer 2019)

Fiction
Angelica Esquivel for “Apá” (Summer 2020)
Laura Perkins for “Howl” (Spring 2020)

Nonfiction
Alexander Luft for “Terra Nulliparous” (Spring 2020)
Jamie Tews for “To Build a Floor” (Summer 2020)

Pushcart Prize

Poetry
Kevin Burris for “At the Optical Shop” (Winter 2020) 
Katherine Hoerth for “Resurrection, Easter Morning” (Spring 2020)
Zebulon Huset for “In the dim garage I drunkenly pry again about the motivation behind his swastika tattoos” (Spring 2020) 

Prose
Avra Margariti for “Bodies of Water” (Autumn 2020)”
Laura Perkins for “Howl” (Spring 2020) 
Ankur Razdan for “Joseph Salame’s Long, Big, Thin Sideways Glass of Water” (Autumn 2020)