We are honored to share and celebrate our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize anthology, Best Microfiction, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, PEN/Robert Dau Prize, and Best Spiritual Literature anthology. Our editors are always grateful for a chance to go back and revisit the exceptional work we’ve published, and we feel glad to be able to put forth these amazing pieces and authors as nominees. Wishing each of them the best of luck!
For the Pushcart Prize, we’ve nominated:
- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, “Shame” (literary nonfiction, Issue 19.1)
- Juan Fernando Villagomez, “El Míster” (fiction, Issue 19.1)
- Matt Young, “Allt Detta Kan Vara Vårt” (fiction, Issue 19.2)
- jason b. crawford, “love; a burning haibun” (poem, Issue 19.2)
- Janelle Tan, “Green Island Serenade” (poem, Issue 19.1)
- Bernado Wade, “This Shit Is Not Interesting” (poem, Issue 19.1)
For Best Microfiction, all from our miCRo series, we’ve nominated:
- “Inversion Can Feel Like Weightlessness” by Anita Goveas
- “Snapper” by Nicholas Mainieri
- “Incongrous States of Dress” by Emilee Prado
- “A Queer Girl’s Guide to Reading Fairy Tales” by Rebecca Turkewitz
Our Nina Riggs Poetry Award nominations:
- Kirun Kapur, “Prairie” (poem, miCRo)
- Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller, “Bloom” (poem, Issue 19.2)
- Elizabeth Langemak, “Propositional Statements Regarding Lot’s Wife” (poem, Issue 19.1)
- Alejandro Lucero, “Poem for my teeth. I can’t keep / you” (poem, Issue 19.2)
- Claire McQuerry, “Married, Filing Separately” (poem, Issue 19.1)
- Yunkyo Moon-Kim, “Apricots” (poem, miCRo)
Although these nominations have already been announced on our social-media accounts, we want to wish our nominees for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the Best Spiritual Literature anthology from Orison Books another round of luck!
Our PEN/Robert J. Dau nominations:
- Faire Holiday, “Standing Still” (fiction, Issue 19.1)
- Claudia Ramirez, “Bottom Feeders” (fiction, Issue 19.2)
Our Best Spiritual Literature nominations:
- Patrick Holian, “The Nascent Days of the Action Figure” (poem, Issue 19.2)
- Darius Simpson, “What Don’t Kill You” (poem, miCRo)
- Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, “Clouded Sulfur” (poem, Issue 19.1)
- Natalie Yap, “Santa Maria” (fiction, miCRo)
