Pushcart Prize 2025
American Girl Doll by Mary Thorson
Bottles on the Shelf by James DF Hannah
Dear Lazarus by John Woods
Sometimes when I’m driving I get a call by Pat Foran
The Community Cash Ghost by Katy Goforth
When You Sell Mom’s Teeth by Arlaina Tibensky
Best of the Net 2025
When You Sell Mom’s Teeth by Arlaina Tibensky
Sometimes when I’m driving I get a call by Pat Foran
Hey My Son by Anthony Neil Smith
Purebred Hustle by Evan Morgan Williams
Best Small Fictions 2024
Amen: The End of Men by Owolusi Lucky
Clarity by James Callan
Imagining the Woman Known Only as Wife On this Eroded Tombstone in the Old Butler Cemetery off Route 194 by Janice Leadingham
Melanin and the Pink Tube by Sudha Subramanian
You Lament The Lack Of Asian Actors In American Cinema by Eliot Li
Best Microfiction 2024
Road Trip in A Place Where a Different You Once Lived by Sumitra Singam
Pushcart Prize 2024
BlackHawk Blues by Damon McKinney
Hey My Son by Anthony Neil Smith
Somewhere, Something, Something by Archer Sullivan
The Color of Bones by Paul J. Garth
When You Get Her Pregnant by Kate Arden McMullen
Where All the Heat Is by Hannah Hollifield
Best of the Net 2024
I Wrestle, I Rant But Writing Has Agency And Completes What I Can’t by Camille U. Adams
TEXT ME BACK by Sara Gerot
How I Cured My Depression by Bethany Browning
You Lament the Lack of Asian American Actors in American Cinema by Eliot Li
Derringer Awards 2023
“Back the Blue” by Anthony Neil Smith
“Jackalope Kings” by Libby Cudmore
“The Ghost of Buxahatchee Creek” by Bobby Mathews
Best Small Fictions 2023
“Codependency (Animals Included)” by Anna Schachner
“Every Which Way, the Wind” by Pat Foran
“Exodus” by Jamie Etheridge
“Extraction” by Beth Gilstrap
“Refinished” by Brian McVety
Best Microfiction 2023
“Cleaning House” by Kim Steutermann Rogers
“If a tree starts crying for help…” by Kirsten Reneau
“Orphans” by Jamy Bond
“Somewhere in the middle of nowhere…” by Barbara Byar
“When your mom is a wind up doll” by Brittany Terwilliger
Pushcart Prize 2023
“Dumpster Cats” by Kyle Seibel
“Crows in the Barleyfield” by C.W. Blackwell
“Mama Bear, Protect the Herd” by Annie Frazier
“Ten Steps to Getting Rid of the Ghost in Your House” by Maureen O’Leary
“The Ghost of Buxahatchee Creek” by Bobby Mathews
“Today, Your Secrets are Safe with Me” by Cheryl Skory Suma
Best of the Net 2023
Every Which Way, the Wind by Pat Foran
If It Plays in Peoria: A Glossary of Midwestern Survival by Megan Cannella
Lampyridae by Erin Calabria
Throwing Pennies by Cassie Mannes Murray
Derringer Awards 2022
The Ghost of Green Valley by William R. Soldan
Balaclava by Matthew Fiander
Dance the Night Away by Bobby Mathews
Best Small Fictions 2021
“An Imaginary Friend is a Conjured Ghost” by Victoria Buitron
“Birds of Prey” by Kelle Shillaci Clarke
“Casual Savior” by Amy Barnes
“Chamomile Tea, Undrunk” by Jo Varnish
“Family Portrait” by Michael Bettendorf
Best Microfiction 2022
“Deer” by Nick Gardner
“Eight Seconds” by Sabrina Hicks
“Ghost Heron” by Jack B. Bedell
“Porcellanidae” by Mandira Pattnaik
“Ruth” by Dan Crawley
“Stallions” by John Brantingham
Pushcart Prize 2022
“Birds of Prey” by Kelle Schillaci Clarke
“The Finch Hunter” by Barlow Adams
“The Ghost of Green Valley” by William R. Soldan
“The Screech Owl” by Chris McGinley
“The Theseus Paradox for Exhausted Parents” by Shannon Frost Greenstein
“Through the Trees, On a River” by Scott Gates
Best of the Net 2022
“Eight Seconds” by Sabrina Hicks
“Polish” by Meredith McCarroll
“The Finch Hunter” by Barlow Adams
“The Hottest and the Longest Lasting Fire” by Michaella A. Thornton