AWARDS
2019 Nominees
Braddock Avenue’s The Best Small Fictions 2019
Gene Albamonte - “Dispatches from Suburbia”
William Beeker - “Angina Pectoris”
Kim Hagerich - “Semiboneless”
William Hoffacker - “Attempting to Dodge a Scorching Ray, You Roll a 7”
Marlene Olin - “Trapped”
2018 Nominees
Braddock Avenue’s The Best Small Fictions 2018
Kim Magowan - “Nepenthes”
Chris Murphy - “Your Burning Hair”
Jason Thayer - “Your Curse”
Dan Tremaglio - “Short Story Collection Story”
Yun Wei - “The Lady Clock”
Pushcart Prize
Kim Hagerich - “Semiboneless”
Philip Memmer - “The God of Sky”
Tyler Munro - “Big Bo Goes Boom”
Robert James Russell - “Anthropocene Moves”
Marvin Shackelford - “Gorgon”
Amie Zimmerman - “midnight vigil for the slick”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Yasmina Din Madden - “A Gook, Not a Chink”
Al Maginnes - “One Trouble With Stories”
Don Malkemes - “Walgreens at Armitage & Albany”
Amber McBride - “Black Witch Moth (Ascalapha odorata)”
Bridget O’Bernstein - “I Think I Hit My Orthodontist Twice”
Demi Richardson - “California Burn Ban”
Marvin Shackelford - “Gorgon”
Robert Wrigley - “Morphine”
2017 Nominees
Braddock Avenue’s The Best Small Fictions 2017
Meghan Callahan - “Epitaphios”
Chad Frame - “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed”
Hillary Leftwich - “Saba on the Shore”
Alice Martin - “Cover Up”
Michael Putnam - “Through Process of Elimination”
Pushcart Prize
Jasmine V. Bailey - “Texas Journal”
Aaron Brame - “Self-Portrait as Labyrinth”
Will Donnelly - “The Urn”
Stephanie Reents - “Naked Selfie”
Jason Thayer - “Your Curse”
Chrys Tobey - “Because We Were Neanderthals”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Adam Edelman - “What I Learned from Dracula”
Amy Strauss Friedman - “Autopsy”
John Gallaher - “Poem for Your Birthday if This Is Your Birthday”
Joshua Johnston - “City Hall”
Ron Riekki - “America”
William Squirrell - “Z Rats!”
Chrys Tobey - “Letter to My Ancestor”
Sarah Viren - “Falling”
2017 Finalists
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2017 Longlist
Chad Frame - “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed”
2016 Nominees
Pushcart Prize
Micaela Bombard - “Cardinal”
Jeremy Packert Burke - “The Labyrinth”
Sarah Freligh - “A Civil War”
W. Todd Kaneko - “Self Portrait as Flash Gordon [Playground Terror Variant]”
John Searcy - “The Sorrows of Death-Klaw”
Chelsea Laine Wells - “The Creation of Suffering”
Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions 2016
Jacques Debrot - “A Brief History of the Minor Modernists”
Tara Kipnees - “incognito”
Michelle Meyers - “Beach Boys”
Dylan Taylor - “Gaining on Gethsemane”
Deborah Trowbridge - “Frigid”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
John Paul Davis - “Passwords”
Robert M. Detman - “Building the Perfect Wings”
Chad Frame - “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed”
Hannah Lee Jones - “Erlkönig at Burley’s Field”
Robert Lunday - “Generations”
Meghann Plunkett - “In Response To A Comment On My Outspoken Nature, That I Have No Manners”
Claire Scott - “O.R.”
Amanda Silberling - “Afterglow”
2015 Nominees
Pushcart Prize
John Paul Davis - “Passwords”
Crystal N. Galyean - “Flight”
Drew Knapp - “The Favissa at Citrus County”
Jeremy John Parker - “Punchline Number Nine”
Julie Rouse - “Homunculus”
Andrea Vaughan - “The Night I Accepted an Award for Academic Excellence”
Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions 2015
Yennie Cheung - “Something Overheard”
Melissa Ostrom - “Gravity”
Raul Palma - “A Captain’s Retirement”
Ron Riekki - “Acquired”
Matthew Robinson - “The Crossing”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Jennifer Dunn - “You Don’t Even Have to Go Outside to See”
Matt Lykins - “Duct Tape”
Zach VandeZande - “In Ocala”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Diya Chaudhuri - “Abstract of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Fine Arts”
Jackson Culpepper - “The Birth and Immolation of a Southern God at the Hands of All”
Ori Fienberg - “Silent Catalog”
Sophia Holtz - “Apocalypse Party”
Les Kay - “The Stranger”
Kelly Kiehl - “The Forgottonists, or, Whatever, Some Parts Were Fun”
Michelle Menting - “Objects Used to Prop Open a Window”
Andrew Payton - “Strandings”
2015 Finalists
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2015 Longlist
Mary Hamilton - “I’ve got a quarter for the jukebox. Play me a slow dance song.”
Daniel W. Thompson - “Left”
2015 Winners
Queen’s Ferry’s The Best Small Fictions 2015
Yennie Cheung - “Something Overheard”
2014 Nominees
Pushcart Prize
Kevin Casey - “Thunderheads”
Sophia Holtz - “Apocalypse Party”
Raul Palma - “A Captain’s Retirement”
Sarah Pape - “Against the Eggshell”
Caleb Tankersley - “The Oak Tree”
Marcelle Thiébaux - “Motoring”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Will Arbery - “Write a Historical Poem”
Lisa J. Cihlar - “Apiary”
Krystin Gollihue - “The Spine”
Claire Kelly - “Nests”
Raul Palma - “A Captain’s Retirement”
Laurie Patton - “Floor”
Ali Shapiro - “Leave Me Alone But Take Me With You”
Caleb Tankersley - “The Oak Tree”
2014 Finalists
storySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2014
Ilya Leybovich - “Final Days of the Third Directorate”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2014 Longlist
Matthew Jakubowski - “A Death in the House of Nostalgia”
Melissa Newman-Evans - “Training Manual for the Juvenile Mermaid”
2014 Winners
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Ali Shapiro - “Leave Me Alone But Take Me With You”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2014
Matt Sailor - “Half the Battle”
Luke Wiget - “Violins”
2013 Nominees
Pushcart Prize
Ilya Leybovich - “Final Days of the Third Directorate”
Katherine MacCue - “The Swans”
Amanda Jane McConnon - “Parts Left Whole”
Nathaniel Kennon Perkins - “An Unfolding”
Jeanann Verlee - “How did your mother die?”
Luke Wiget - “Violins”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Peter DeMarco - “The Fireman”
Sarah Kokernot - “Sacred Bone”
PD Mallamo - “Athame”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Leisha Douglas - “Tentative”
Nathan Holic - “Submission Guidelines”
Evan Iresmith - “Private Speaking”
Amanda Jane McConnon - “Parts Left Whole”
kelly schirmann - “hunter gatherer”
Graham Tugwell - “A Caring for Creatures”
Jeanann Verlee - “How did your mother die?”
Meredith Weiers - “This, Too, Shall Pass”
2013 Finalists
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Leisha Douglas - “Tentative”
kelly schirmann - “hunter gatherer”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2013 Longlist
Aaron Larson - “The zookeeper switches off the TV.”
Troy Manning - “There Was an Elderly Woman”
Joseph Pfister - “The Wake”
Kevin Tadge - “The Glass Stranger”
2012 Nominees
Pushcart Prize
Peter DeMarco - “The Fireman”
Leisha Douglas - “Tentative”
Sandra Irwin - “Loss”
PD Mallamo - “Athame”
Joe Miller - “Conquest [translation]”
Daniel M. Shapiro - “Thomas Kinkade Drops by Andy Warhol’s Grave, Bethel Park, Pa., 2/22/07”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Matt Ferner - “SUICIDE LETTER”
Faith Gardner - “Window Woman”
Christopher Miller - “The Jellyfish”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Carroll Beauvais - “You Are Here”
Sarah Carson - “For Valerie”
Alicia Catt - “On Lashes”
Eileen Hennessy - “Memorial Day”
Alisha Erin Hillam - “Centered”
Sarah Kokernot - “Sacred Bone”
Heather Sommer - “Traveler”
Helen Wickes - “What Is Implanted In The Body”
Ajmal Yourish - “In Gratitude”
2012 Finalists
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Sarah Kokernot - “Sacred Bone”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2012 Longlist
Sabrina Stoessinger - “The Anatomy of a Meal”
2012 Winners
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2012
Rebekah Matthews - “MILF”
2011 Nominees
Micro Award
Peter Tieryas Liu - “Colony”
Jacqueline May - “The Monoliths”
Pushcart Prize
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - “ORANGE SOCKS”
Faith Gardner - “Window Woman”
Christopher Miller - “The Jellyfish”
Ian Sanquist - “Great American Novel”
Heather Sommer - “Traveler”
Dan Walsh - “Correspondence”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Monica Carroll - “Colour, letter, ninety degrees”
Kat Lewin - “Hanger”
John Minichillo - “The Salesman’s Apprentice”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Elizabeth J. Colen - “MISSING, FOUND”
Barbara Crooker - “ROOM IN NEW YORK, 1932”
Stacia M. Fleegal - “Post-Apocalyptic”
Faith Gardner - “Window Woman”
Kathleen Heideman - “Overlooked Heroine, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Robert Hinderliter - “A Thousand Fires”
C. J. Opperthauser - “Sparrow-sized, The Grave”
Pui Ying Wong - “An Emigrant’s Winter”
2011 Finalists
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Elizabeth J. Colen - “MISSING, FOUND”
Kathleen Heideman - “Overlooked Heroine, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
C. J. Opperthauser - “Sparrow-sized, The Grave”
Pui Ying Wong - “An Emigrant’s Winter”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2011 Longlist
Randall Brown - “Out”
Tina Hyland - “The Greatest Show on Earth”
2011 Winners
The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing
Garrett Ashley - “The History of Character X”
Sam Cha - “The Conference of the Birds”
Annam Manthiram - “The Discrepancy Equation”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Stacia M. Fleegal - “Post-Apocalyptic”
Faith Gardner - “Window Woman”
2010 Nominees
Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Tres Crow - “The Devil’s Courtyard”
John Jodzio - “Guns and Gold”
Pui Ying Wong - “An Emigrant’s Winter”
Micro Award
Robert Hinderliter - “A Thousand Fires”
Pushcart Prize
Tres Crow - “The Devil’s Courtyard”
Stacia M. Fleegal - “Post-Apocalyptic”
Kathleen Heideman - “Overlooked Heroine, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Carrie Lorig - “Bone Woman”
Timothy Raymond - “Renegades”
Amber Sparks - “When Other People’s Lives Fall into Your Lap”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Frank Hinton - “Comorbidity”
Laura Isaacman - “Barnacles”
Jessa Marsh - “My Motel Week”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Britt Gambino - “Isosceles”
Justin Hamm - “down home”
Keith Kurzman - “Eleison”
Halli Melnitsky - “The Ascension of Soft Bright Things”
Jasmine Neosh - “The Rube Goldberg Pacemaker”
R Jay Slais - “In Every Loss I Found”
Amber Sparks - “When Other People’s Lives Fall into Your Lap”
Catherine Zickgraf - “Magpie”
2010 Finalists
storySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009
Laura Isaacman - “Barnacles”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2010 Long Shortlist
Tara Laskowski - “Only a Number”
Ben Loory - “Picasso”
Michelle Reale - “Hunger”
2009 Nominees
Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Jeannie Galeazzi - “Aeronauts”
Stefan Kiesbye - “Home”
Jessa Marsh - “My Motel Week”
Micro Award
Z. Z. Boone - “Bad Living”
Daniel Casebeer - “Pinot Noir”
Pushcart Prize
Simon Barker - “Tarzan of the Danube”
Ronald Fink - “East End”
Justin Hamm - “at sixteen”
Don Hucks - “Inbound Number 6”
Jen Schalliol - “Eating Dirt”
Evan White - “Delay of the Herd”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted’
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Chris Mohar - “Cigarettes”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - “A SHORT HISTORY OF UNUSUAL FISH”
Kristin Dombrowski - “Bog”
Kira Hesser - “inertia / inner / in her”
Heather Momyer - “Dead Dog”
Adam Moorad - “Star-Spangled Enterprise”
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. - “Scientist Mad”
Iftekhar Sayeed - “the early mangoes”
Buff Whitman-Bradley - “Aerial Intercourse”
2009 Finalists
storySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2008
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted”
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Sundress’s Best of the Net
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - “A SHORT HISTORY OF UNUSUAL FISH”
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2009 Long Shortlist
Sam Pink - “II.”
2009 Winners
The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing
Bradley Sands - “In the Restaurant”
2008 Nominees
Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Patrick Kelling - “Propping Frisco”
David LaBounty - “a poem about faith and tomorrow”
Five Star Literary Stories
Patrick Kelling - “Propping
Frisco”
Pushcart Prize
John Dorsey - “fragments whispered to a pretty girl in spring”
Roland Goity - “America’s Least Wanted”
Andrew Hall - “Intake”
Brady Hammes - “Narok”
Jennifer E. Hudgens - “bukowski waxed my legs”
Patrick Kelling - “Propping Frisco”
storySouth’s Million Writers Award
Rob Donald - “Una Hamburguesa en la Cabeza”
Bradley Michael Hamlin - “Jacques & Pierre”
Ben Tanzer - “PaintWriteDeathLifeArt (Sketches from a Life
in Art)”