The Prose Poem

We are delighted to have the chance to nominate work for both Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions.

Because Best Small Fictions has changed publisher and are changing their publication timetable, we were able to submit our 2025 and 2026 nominations together this year.

Congratulations to the following authors:

Best Small Fictions 2026

• 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 Small Fictions 2025

• 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 of the Net 

Poetry

• 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

• Lake Crossings by Lucinda Trew
• The Book of Flies by Jan Conn

Non-fiction

• Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
• The Sidewalk on C Street by Sheri Flowers Anderson

Art

• 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