we always nominate from our yearly winners in the three Awards for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcard Prize each year We are not able to nominate for Best Microfictions as they do not accept stories that will be in print as well as on our website.

For Best Small Fictions, we are allowed to nominate five stories. It is our pleasure to nominate the three 2023 first prize winners: ‘Market Forces’ by Louie Fooks, ‘Remembered Yellow’ by William Davidson and Detente by Dawn Taska Steffler. The other nominations are second prize winning stories ‘Butterfly Effect’ by Mairead Robinson and ‘Failure to Thrive’ by Sara Hills.

For the Pushcart Prize, we can select six stories and are delighted to nominate:
Second Prize winner ‘Walking to Wollongong‘ by Nikki Crutchley, ‘To All the Copies of Us’ third prize winner by Noemi Sheiring Olah, third prize winner,‘Lakota Widow‘ by Kevin Burns, third prize winner, ‘Murmuration’ third prize winner by Sally Jubb, highly commended ‘Train to the Last Iceberg‘ by Autumn Bettinger and highly commended ‘Diamonds in the Earth’ by James Montgomery.

They are all wonderful stories and best wishes to everyone going forward!