Best of the Net Nominations
2024
Everywhere All the Time (with a Line from Ashley Capps)
Eric Roy
April 2024, Poetry
Metaphysical Exam
Liz Irvin
January 2024, Poetry
Paternity Test
Carol Alexander
January 2024, Poetry
The Empath
Anne Champion
October 2023, Poetry
Came as Ravens
Mark Anthony Burke
October 2023, Poetry
the all
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
July 2023, Poetry
WORKEROLICK
Mark Crimmins
April 2024, fiction
Under the Texan Sun
Suzanne C Martinez
January 2024, fiction
Yard Sale
Sarah Chavera Edwards
April 2024, nonfiction
It’s Ungodly Cold in Kahramanmaraş
Caroline N. Simpson
January 2024, nonfiction
Allium, Hydra, Greece
Roger Camp
April 2024, visual art
Another Political Season
Stephen Curtis Wilson
April 2024, visual art
Antique Aquarians 1
Steve Zimmerman
January 2024, visual art
2023
Blind in One Eye, Can’t See Out of the Other
Cyn Kitchen
April 2023, Poetry
Miss You and the Blue Jean Hat
MD Bier
October 2022, Poetry
Thursday, 12:20 p.m., Saturday, 2:22 p.m., Thursday, 3:25 p.m.
Justin Lacour
July 2022, Poetry
The Very First Venus Flytrap
Dante Novario
July 2022, Poetry
Do You Have an Accent?
Elizabeth Curley
April 2022, Poetry
Ode to Candle Stub
Cathy Hollister
October 2022, Poetry
Falling
Julia Poole
April 2023, Fiction
Forecast
Aaron Sandberg
July 2022, Fiction
Governing the Western Field
Richard Holinger
April 2023, Nonfiction
Aggregates
Dian Parker
July 2022, Nonfiction
Barn en Route to Loweville
Jim Ross
October 2022, Art
Pharmacopia
Michael Hower
April 2023, Art
Jaywalking
Larena Nellies-Ortiz
January 2023, Art
2022
Bad Memories of the Good Old Days
Juan David Cruz-Duarte
April 2021, Poetry
Bench Warrant Wednesday
Tobi Alfier
April 2021, Poetry
Country Road at Night, North Carolina, 1979
E. Laura Golberg
April 2021, Poetry
The Final Exam
Elison Alcovendaz
January 2021, Fiction
How to Draw a Horse
Daisy Bassen
April 2021, Poetry
Hunger Stones
Claire Scott
January 2021, Poetry
Grace in Four Parts
Michelle Cacho-Negrete
April 2021, Nonfiction
Just Take Me Home
Harry Longstreet
January 2021, Art
Limited Light
Paul Rabinowitz
July 2020, Art
Solo Flight
Adeet Deshmukh
October 2020, Art
Sonny Rollins’s Bridge
Sean Murphy
January 2021, Poetry
A Tale of Two Bicyclists
Hiram Perez
October 2020, Nonfiction
We Don’t Promise You a Rose Garden
Theo Greenblatt
January 2021, Fiction
2020
Duality
Alice B Fogel
July 2019, Poetry
On The Complexity of Symbols
Michele Reese
July 2019, Poetry
Visiting Poet in Lockdown
Glen Sorestad
July 2019, Poetry
Inauguration Day
Charles Springer
October 2019, Poetry
Beach Trip
Danielle Hanson
October 2019, Poetry
Flight
Kelley Jean White
April 2020, Poetry
The Obedient Daughter
Joel Wayne
April 2020, Fiction
Stop a Second
James William Gardner
April 2020, Fiction
Intersection
Carlos Andrés Gómez
October 2019, Nonfiction
Figs and Snaps
Virginia Watts
January 2020, Nonfiction
2019
Mailbox Number Eight
Haydée Touitou
April 2019, Nonfiction
The Statue of Robert E. Lee Contemplates his Removal
Scott McDaniel
April 2019, Poetry
Waking at Night
Sharon Chmielarz
July 2018, Poetry
Popeye
Michael Karl Ritchie
January 2019, Fiction
Vantablack
Stuart James Forrest
July 2018, Poetry
Unarmed Combat
Nicolas Ridley
January 2019, Nonfiction
The Absurdist Son of an Immigrant Grapples with Comprehending His Google News Feed
Gary Singh
July 2018, Poetry
Lobster in Broth
Gregory Loselle
January 2019, Poetry
Noble Metal, Best of Class
Gerard Sarnat
January 2019, Fiction
Psychologists Say That When Someone Calls You by the Wrong Name, It’s Because They Love You
Kasandra S. Larsen
April 2019, Poetry
2018
The Blue Ones
Natalie E. Illum
April 2018, Poetry
The Patriarch Strokes a White Cat (Or How to Defeat Fascism)
Viviane Vives
April 2018, Fiction
All Earth is Dull and Muddy
Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett
April 2018, Poetry
Train at Night in the Desert
Amie Sharp
January 2018, Poetry
Toxic Gaming
Patricia Coleman
April 2018, Nonfiction
We’d Planned
Lowell Jaeger
January 2018, Poetry
My Own Van Gogh
Charles Leipart
April 2018, Fiction
Strangler Fig
Beth Sherman
October 2017, Poetry
High School Lunch
Kelsey Ann Kerr
October 2017, Poetry
Babelogue
Michelle Bowdler
January 2018, Nonfiction
Pushcart Prize Nominations
2024
O The Leaving
Jennifer Randall Hotz
April 2023, Poetry
Dragonfly Puzzle Box
Elya Braden
October 2023, Poetry
Moon Child
Ann Weil
October 2023, Poetry
Clapping Game
Evan Morgan Williams
January 2023, Fiction
The Twilight Zone
Lorraine Hanlon Comanor
October 2023, Nonfiction
The Goats
Juyanne James
October 2023, Fiction
2022
Cadge
Steven Deutsch
January 2021, Poetry
An Exploited Body
Annie Elizabeth
January 2021, Poetry
Shiny Perfect
Michael Aro
January 2021, Fiction
If Right Now Everything Stops
Hannah Story Brown
April 2021, Nonfiction
Dormant
Caroline N. Simpson
July 2021, Nonfiction
Country Boy
Robert Nisbet
July 2021, Poetry
2021
Figs and Snaps
Virginia Watts
January 2020, Nonfiction
How To Recognize An American
Carol Hamilton
January 2020, Poetry
Ice Melting
Dan Jacoby
April 2020, Poetry
Green.
Shoshana Tehila Surek
April 2020, Poetry
Nonagenarian+ Role Model Not Racked With Concerns
Gerard Sarnat
April 2020, Poetry
Grace
Sue Powers
October 2020, Fiction
2019
Babelogue
Michelle Bowdler
January 2018, Nonfiction
Give Me Joy, Not Liberty
Grethel Ramos
July 2018, Poetry
Charles Mingus’s Miracle
Sean Murphy
October 2018, Poetry
Chess
Michael Karl Ritchie
October 2018, Poetry
Eyeless
Heath Brougher
October 2018, Poetry
The Machinery of the State
Andy Posner
October 2018, Poetry