AWARDS
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2018
“She Wonders Vietnam”
John Brantingham
Semifinalist
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2017
“Bass Weather”
Michael C. Smith
Winner
BEST OF THE NET 2011
Sundress Publications
“52nd & Spruce”
Allison Whittenberg
Winner
NOMINATIONS
2024 PUSHCART PRIZE
“The Women in the Club”
P. Jo Anne Burgh
“Plague Sestina”
Hosanna Greene
“A Moment Caught in Time”
Joanne Jagoda
“Broken Beauty”
Shirley Jones-Luke
“The Big Top”
John Blair
“Dominic’s Shoes”
Michael Golder
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2023
Michael Golder
2023 PUSHCART PRIZE
Kathleen Spivack
“The Sending”
Andrele Ward
“Eyes (circa 1990)”
Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene
“I Did a Soldier’s Job Today”
Tom Bixby
“Myself”
Ana Wooldridge
“Where’ve You Been?”
Nicholas Kasimatis
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2022
“A Line of Brown”
Gilbert Arzola
2022 PUSHCART PRIZE
“After the Boston Marathon Bombing”
Gina Troisi
“Ghetto Gold”
Carolanne Conerly Griffin
“Wake”
Sean Webb
“Sixteen Kinds of Emptiness”
Patricia O’Donnell
“Deeper in the Black”
Kenneth Fries
“Powerful Forces”
Kim Farrar
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2021
“In Passing: A Carriage to Clarksville”
Harper Darnell
“Driver”
Barbara Ritchie
“The Purse”
Sharie Kelley
“Breakfast with Henry”
Nancy Ludmerer
“Caffeinated”
Ernie Sadashige
2021 PUSHCART PRIZE
“A Spoon Will Catch the Dark Girls’ Pain”
Susann Cokal
“Ode to the Umbrella”
Partridge Boswell
“Surrectus”
B.V. Lawson
“Want”
Shirley Jones-Luke
“The Daffodils Outside the Post Office”
Anders Cato
“Banana, Sunshine, Chair”
Rob Jacques
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2020
“The Daffodils Outside the Post Office”
Anders Cato
“Surrectus”
B.V. Lawson
“Heads or Tales”
Gordon Pinckheard
“The Door”
David Mathews
“How I Became a Sex Writer”
Ellaraine Lockie
2020 PUSHCART PRIZE
“Family on the PATH Train”
Sakinah Hofler
“Bedlam”
George Harrar
“The Internet of Everything”
Anne Bower
“Winter, Lower Longley, Tasmania”
Rafaella Del Bourgo
“Offering Prayer, or What I Brought to Standing Rock”
Glena Trachta
“The Old Point”
Leslie Anne Mcilroy
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2019
“The Old Point”
Leslie Anne Mcilroy
“Uncle Frank”
Salvatore Difalco
“On Puraran Beach”
Luke Tennis
“The Last Poet”
Jacob Cockcroft
“Tea Cup”
A.C. Koch
2019 PUSHCART PRIZE
“Fields”
Sean Webb
“The Silence That Dries Rocío”
Jhon Sánchez
“Ghosts”
Trevor Wadlow
“Bones, Burns & Bedpans”
Saffron Marchant
“Neptune Society”
Kim Trevathan
“Swedish Fish”
Kathleen Kraft
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2018
“She Wonders Vietnam”
John Brantingham
“Top Hat”
ERA
“Neptune Society”
Kim Trevathan
“Mayonnaise Thanksgiving”
Avee Chaudhuri
“I’ve Been Blind”
Vicky Santiesteban
2018 PUSHCART PRIZE
“Small Onya”
Laura Lovic-Lindsay
“Arrival”
Carl Auerbach
“Gentle (Calling Your Name)”
Nandi Comer
“Letter to a Pedophile #1”
Lee Varon
“Stolen Memories”
Timothy Jay Smith
“chick”
Mark Belair
THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2017
“Blood Drive”
Chris Callard
“Jane Bond”
Sarah Kosch
“Bass Weather”
Michael C. Smith
“Porcelain Prison”
Michelle Cox
“Stolen Memories”
Timothy Jay Smith
2017 PUSHCART PRIZE
“Pray For Us Sinners”
Dolly Reynolds
“Mr. Avocado Man”
Joanne Jagoda
“Everybody Shimmies Now”
Drew Hardman
“Suddenly Dumb”
Richard Shelton
“When the Bees Come Back”
Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier
“Water”
Gene Fendt
2016 PUSHCART PRIZE
“When Do I Pray?” by Susan Miller
“Strip” by Sara Backer
“Locked In” by Jeff Lyon
“The Wormhole” by Keren Toledano
“Patron Saint of the Confederacy” by John Kachuba
“The Night My Father Danced Like Fred Astaire”
by E.E. King
2015 PUSHCART PRIZE
“The Blogger Wolf” – Douglas Sovern
(nominated by members of Pushcart’s Board of Editors)
“Rock Me” – Leonore Hildebrandt
“Rosewood” – Kate Selker
“Rare Earth” – Betsy Martin
“Stoop” – Paula Brancato
“533” – LaShonda Katrice Barnett
“Home Be More Somethin'” – Excell Hunter
2014 PUSHCART PRIZE
Andrew Stancek: “Always There”
Vladimir Swirynsky: “Venice Beach, California”
Denis Wong: “Nothing, Everything”
Sheryl Mebane: “Renga for an Absent Lover”
Gerardo Mena:
“A Nursing Home Boxer to a High School Volunteer”
Don Riesett: “Personal Foul”
2013 MILLION WRITERS AWARD
“The Train Doesn’t Stop Here” – Jack King
“Let’s Rob a Bank” – Anders Benson
“The Hygienist” – Linda Davis
BEST OF THE NET 2012
Lora Rivera: “UAV Pilot”
Donna L. Emerson: “Before AIDS Was a Word”
Christine Tierney: “Fumes”
Vivian Faith Prescott:
“Commodity Accessability Progress Report”
Sheryl Mebane: “Renga for an Absent Lover”
Gerardo Mena:
“A Nursing Home Boxer to a High School Volunteer”
Seamus Scanlon:
“My Beautiful, Brash, Beastly Belfast”
Agatha Verdadero: “Death in Nairobi”
Don Riesett: “Personal Foul”
2012 MILLION WRITERS AWARD
Seamus Scanlon:
“My Beautiful, Brash, Beastly Belfast”
Colleen Quinn: “Eyes Wide Open”
Dina Greenberg: “Discarded”
2013 PUSHCART PRIZE
Seamus Scanlon:
“My Beautiful, Brash, Beastly Belfast”
Xavier McCaffrey: “Drinks on the Doctor”
Agatha Verdadero: “Death in Nairobi”
David Mohan: “The Lazarus Dream”
Donna L. Emerson: “Before AIDS Was a Word”
Regina Leverrier, MD: “Drowning the Dynamic Duo”
BEST OF THE NET 2011
Sundress Publications
Elizabeth Barton: “Three Minutes”
S.J. Cahill: “Lines of Force”
David Mohan: “The Lazarus Dream”
Tony Magistrale: “Stranger on the Bus”
Mab Jones: “The Three Coats”
Byron Edgington: “After the Rain”
Regina Leverrier, MD: “Drowning the Dynamic Duo”
Patrick Pfister: “Subcontinent Train”
Allison Whittenberg: “52nd & Spruce”
Marguerite Bouvard: “In the Val Rosandra”
2012 PUSHCART PRIZE
Steve Widdows: “Prozac & Pain”
S.J. Cahill: “Lines of Force”
Micah Herzog Stack: “The Synchronous City”
Evelyn Krieger: “Twenty-Ten”
Hallie Rundle: “Asphalt Sky”
Precious McKenzie: “Late Bloomer”
2011 MICRO AWARD
Elizabeth Barton: “Three Minutes”
Nomi Liron: “Chocolate”
BEST OF THE WEB 2011
Dzanc Books
“Lines of Force” by S.J. Cahill
“The Synchronous City” by Micah Herzog Stack
“Prozac & Pain” by Steve Widdows
BEST OF THE NET 2010
Sundress Publications
“Pie” by Beverly Akerman
“Chocolate” by Nomi Liron
“A Girl Strolling” translated by Taylor Stoehr
“Prozac & Pain” by Steve Widdows
“Mother & Child” by Anne Whitehouse
“When He Leaves Town” by Lyn Lifshin
“Mambomania” by Aurora M. Lewis
“Late Bloomer” by Precious McKenzie
2011 PUSHCART PRIZE
“The Greatest Flamenco Dancer in All Flydom”
by Michael A. Kechula
“Wrong Way” by Aurora M. Lewis
“Pie” by Beverly Akerman
“the weight of things” by Kate Maruyama
“Goodbye Mama” by Maureen Wilkinson
“Wayward Conception” by Mary J. Daley
STORY SOUTH
2010 Million Writers Award
“The Teaberry Fortune” by Philip Bernhardt
“The Greatest Flamenco Dancer in All Flydom”
by Michael A. Kechula
“Wayward Conception” by Mary J. Daley
BEST OF THE WEB 2010
Dzanc Books
“The Greatest Flamenco Dancer in All Flydom”
by Michael A. Kechula
“Pie” by Beverly Akerman
“the weight of things” by Kate Maruyama
BEST OF THE NET 2009
Sundress Publications
“Wrong Way” by Aurora M. Lewis
“Wayward Conception” by Mary J. Daley
“Goodbye Mama” by Maureen Wilkinson
“Old Boy Friends” by Lyn Lifshin
“The Naughty Girl” by Lucy James