2022
Best of the Net
“The Astronaut” by Lindy Biller
”Saltwater Dog” by Vivian Zhu
Best Small Fictions
“Oceans Under Threat Like Never Before” by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
“Tongue Twisters” by Victoria Buitron
“What Remains” by DW McKinney
”We Beasts” by Will McMillan
“Because There is a War On” by Zoë Meager
Best Microfiction (400 words or less)
”Tattoos” by Jamy Bond
“Kudzu” by December Cuccaro
“We Build Things, We Fall Apart” by Selena Langner
“Hunan Homes” by Eliot Li
“Occur” by Judith Osilé Ohikuare
“Adenium” by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
Pushcart Prize
“Tongue Twisters” by Victoria Buitron
“Summer of ‘77” by Karen Crawford
“On How to Survive as a Barn Owl” by Olivia Kingery
“What Remains” by DW McKinney
“Because There is a War On” by Zoë Meager
”Saltwater Dog” by Vivian Zhu
2021
Best Small Fictions
“Love Scream” — Madeline Anthes
“Inheritance” — K-Ming Chang
“The Hero You've Been Waiting For” — Max Hipp
“Thirty Something” — Lee Matalone
“At the Movies” — Bill Merklee
“Reflecting Pool” — Yong-Yu Huang
Best Microfiction (400 words or less)
“Six Youthful Encounters with Death” — Julie Chen
“Poo on You” — Kim Magowan
“Under the Cherry Tree” — Minyoung Lee
“Hunting Knife” — Lisa Michelle Moore
“New Mexico” — Leslie Walker Trahan
“Drinking Game Rules” — Sage Tyrtle
Pushcart Prize
“Swarm” — M.W. Brooke
“Inheritance” — K-Ming Chang
“Deleted Scenes from The Polar Bear King” — Jessica Hudson
“Infinity Arrow” — Sam Martone
“Girls in Space Be Wary” — Meghan Phillips
“Sear” — Amy Wang
2020
Best of the Net
“How Could You Know?” — Joaquin Fernandez
“Be Conscious of Form” — Myliyah Hanna
Pushcart Prize
“Graffito” — Andrew Adair
“Rock Collection” — Sabrina Hicks
“How to Get a Message Behind Enemy Lines” — K.S. Lokensgard
“All Churchgoers are Fanfic Authors” — Andy Lopez
“They’ll Steal Your Skin and Other Lessons from the World’s Fair” by Erin Vachon
“The Stone Girl” — Lucy Zhang
Best Microfiction (400 words or less)
“Collision” — Jennifer McGaha
“After Sex, We Find a Praying Mantis in Our Bed” by Cortney Phillips Meriwether
“The Eternity Berry” — Grace Q. Song (Selected to appear in Best Microfiction 2021)
“Mystic Hustler” — Erika Veurink
Best Small Fictions
“Chiefs” — Joshua Bohnsack
“Animal Behavior” — Melissa Bowers
“Bad Fish, Black Sheep” — Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
“Holy Jesus, There’s a Nun in IKEA” — Sara Hills
“The Stone Girl” — Lucy Zhang (Selected for Best Small Fictions 2021)
2019
Best of the Net
"Monstrous, Chaotic Things" — Maureen Langloss
”Anarchism is Not Enouygh” — Amy Stuber
Pushcart Prize
“Just After Joy” — Molia Dumbleton
”How Could You Know?” — Joaquin Fernandez
”Be Conscious of Form” — Myliyah Hanna
”The Dogs of Spain” — Yasi Salek
”Anarchism is Not Enouygh” — Amy Stuber
”Hell” — Jennifer Wortman
Best Microfiction (400 words or less)
“A Lesson in Love, Translated from the German” — Sionnain Buckley
”Weight Room” — Paul Crenshaw
”Still Life with Prairie, 1860” — Natalie Teal McAllister
”Brass” — Melissa Ostrom
Best Small Fictions
"A Lesson in Love, Translated from the German" — Sionnain Buckley
"Something Between Them" — K.B. Carle
"Everyone was in on it Except You" — Neil Clark
"Be Conscious of Form" — Myliyah Hanna
"Peak Cute" — Katherine Heath
2018
Best of the Net
Aram Mrjoian — “How to Exploit Your Ancestors”
Dina L. Relles — "Half-Life"
Pushcart Prize
“I Wanna Be Adored” — Melissa Goode
“Monstrous, Chaotic Things” — Maureen Langloss
“She’ll Only Come Out At Night” — Kristine Langley Mahler
“How to Exploit Your Ancestors” — Aram Mrjoian
“Half-Life” — Dina Relles
“I Don’t Know What to Tell You” — Yael van der Wouden
Best Small Fictions
“Fragments of Evolution” — Cavin Bryce
“Flight Helmet” — Kate Gehan
“Back When You Were River Phoenix” — Jennifer Harvey
“The Fourth Kind” — Evan Nicholls
“Grand Motel” — Tria Wood
Best Microfiction (400 words or less)
“Sanctus Spiritus, 1512” — Sarah Arantza Amador
“Sabbatical” — Amanda J. Bermudez
“Fragments of Evolution” — Cavin Bryce
“I Don’t Know Where Exactly His Grave is” — Janet Frishberg
“Flight Helmet” — Kate Gehan
“She Paints it Pyrotechnic Yellow These Days” — Kathryn McMahon
“It’s Shaped like a Grin, They Say” — K.C. Mead-Brewer
“Ourself” — Brian Randall
Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy
“That Time Aliens Made Us Vegan” — Tyler Miles
“The Fourth Kind” — Evan Nicholls
“She Paints it Pyrotechnic Yellow These Days” — Kathryn McMahon
2017
Best of the Net nominations
Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies"
Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree"
Pushcart Prize nominations
April Bradley — "Little Wake"
Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes"
Annie Frazier — "Slather"
Jeremy John Parker — "Spectrum"
Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies"
Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree"
Best Small Fictions nominations
April Bradley — "Little Wake"
Annie Frazier — "Slather"
Jeremy John Parker — "Spectrum"
Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies"
Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree"
2016
Best of the Net nominations
Lauren Becker — “Sick Girls”
Anna Lea Jancewicz — "This Whole Majestic Thing”
Pushcart Prize nominations
Lauren Becker — “Sick Girls”
Justin Lawrence Daugherty — “How to Spend Your Time Before the Renegade Planet Makes It All Go Dark”
Beth Gilstrap — "A Five-Pointed Failed Paper Love Weapon"
Greg Hill — "Life With Three Kids"
Anna Lea Jancewicz — "This Whole Majestic Thing”
Dilara O'Neil — "Baby Needle"
2015
Pushcart Prize nominees
“Once for Yes and Twice for No” by Chloe N. Clark
“He’s All Humanity” by Amanda Malone
“Bash the Bishop” by Deirdre Coyle
“70 Sentences that Duolingo.com Believes I will Need to Know In Spanish” by Caitlin Horrocks
“Roy Rogers, My Grandfather, and a Dead Duck” by Sarah Shields
“Dila” by Charles Bane, Jr.
Queen's Ferry Press Best Small Fictions 2015
"Jellyfish" by Zara Lisbon
"Two Thousand Miles Running" by Anthony Martin
"Paint Job" by Tatiana Ryckman
"Heat Wave" by Aki Schilz
"Nettle Creek Cemetery" by Eric Shonkwiler
2014
Best of the Net 2014
"Two Thousand Miles Running" by Anthony Martin
"Jellyfish" by Zara Lisbon.
