We are delighted to have the opportunity to nominate some of our poems for various awards and anthologies. In some cases, we have nominted prose poems under the umbrella of flash or shortform prose in hopes that we can share these pieces with a larger audience.
Awards
Huge congratulations to:
- Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud whose poem “Done” from Issue 31 was chosen for Best Microfictions 2026.
- Darsie Bowden whose poem, “Something That I Learned from Someone Who Is Gone” published in Issue 14 was chosen for publication in Best Small Fictions 2025.
- Sian Meades-Williams whose poem “Method for a Sunday roast” from Issue 2 was selected for inclusion in Best Microfictions 2024, crossing the prose poem/microfiction divide.
Nominations
Congratulations to these poems and authors who have been nominated for the following awards and anthologies:
2026
Best Small Fictions
- 36DD by Yashasvi Vachhani
- after forty years of marriage June became a trout by Alexina Dalgetty
- March by Fred Muratori
- Mission Street by Peter Leroe-Muñoz
- Mother Needs by Elena Zhang
Best of the Net
Poetry
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- Aeolus, Tinos by David Capps
- Playback by Susan Eyre Coppock
- Please Justify Your Paragraphs by Jennifer Weigel
- Sisterhood by Yashasvi Vachhani
- TANGERINE by Kristina Erny
- The Noise of this House by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Fiction
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- Lake Crossings by Lucinda Trew
- The Book of Flies by Jan Conn
Non-fiction
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- Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
- The Sidewalk on C Street by Sheri Flowers Anderson
Art
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- From Here to There, with The Book of Flies by Jan Conn
- Pomegranate, with Pomegranate by Kelly Houle
- Long After (with What You’ll Do: The List by Anne Anthony
2025
Best Small Fictions
- Husband Stitch by Nikita Deshpande
- Sofa/Headphones/An Old Walther PPK by Rachel R. Baum
- The Game by Hannah Linden
- The Horseshoe Crab by Danielle Fontaine
- The Tourist by Michelle Matthees
Best Microfictions
- Done by Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud
- Forms of Matter by Julie Gard
- Husband Stitch by Nikita Deshpande
- Tangled by Smitha Sehgal
- The Offing by Jonathan Carr
Pushcart Prize
- A Small City with Trams by Michael Mintrom
- Done by Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud
- Mountain Flower Homily by Maggie Russell
- Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
- Tangled by Smitha Sehgal
- Tender Blue by Annastatia Brooks
2024
Best Microfictions
- Dusk, January 6, 2023 by Lucia Owen
- In Memoriam by Marc Audet
- Revelation in Snow and Woods by Thad DeVassie
- Something that I learned from someone who is gone by Darsie Bowden
- The Flop by John Johnson
Best Small Fictions
- Something of Fleas by May Cannon
- Peacocks by Lee Stockdale
- Red Hot Chili Sun by Kathrine Bancroft
- Something that I learned from someone who is gone by Darsie Bowden
- What Happens When a Star Explodes by Amorak Huey
Pushcart Prize
- ‘First Meeting’ by Stephen Schwei
- ‘For a while, after a funeral’ by Richard Jordan
- ‘Blue Heart’ by Danielle Benvenuto
- ‘bayview’ by T Cruz
- ‘The American Prose Poem’ by Joshua McKinney
- ‘Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?’ Jonathan Yungkans
Best of the Net
- Apertures David Capps
- Truth Matters by Gary D. Grossman
- What Happens When a Star Explodes by Amorak Huey
- The Flop by John Johnson
- Something in Between by Franchesca Liauw
- Method for a Sunday Roast by Sian Meades-Williams
- Guilty August by Sam Moe
- Dodgem Ride Julia Webb
2023
Forward Prizes for Poetry
- 2000 Years BCC by Oz Hardwick
- Pub #6 by Paige Elizabeth Wajda
- The Bagworm by Kunjana Parashar
Best Small Fictions
- 2000 Years BCC by Oz Hardwick
- Pub #6 by Paige Elizabeth Wajda
- The Bagworm by Kunjana Parashar
- The Relevance of Evenings’ by Ilse Pedler
- Unknown Provenance by Oz Hardwick
Best Microfictions
- Method for a Sunday Roast by Sian Meades-Williams
- Salmon by Alexina Dalgetty
- Owl Hour by Katherine Gordon
- George’s Dream by Hugh Findlay
- Touch the Joy by Rina Palumbo
Pushcart Prize
- 2000 Years BCC by Oz Hardwick
- Pub #6 by Paige Elizabeth Wajda
- The Bagworm by Kunjana Parashar
- The Magician by Vasvi Kejriwal
- The Relevance of Evenings’ by Ilse Pedler
- Winter with garlic by Adam Stokell