Recognition!
About Nominations and Awards
We like to record our annual nominations to anthologies, awards, and prizes. It’s a tough and subjective thing to pick each year. We hope it represents the love of flash fiction at NFFR, but please remember, we love all of our stories and our NFFR family!
Best of the Net Nominations
2023
- Grandma by L. Soviero
- Lonelihood by Todd Clay Stuart
2021
- Used Hearse by Sandie Friedman
- Slip by Jason Zwiker
2020
- Little Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kishcynska
- My Taurus Mama by Francine Witte
2018
- Tooth by Whitney Scharer
- Out of Reach by Steve Cushman
Best Microfiction Nominations
2022
- Scar Tissue by Sabrina Hicks
- Unremarkable by Jill Witty
- Lucky Lucky Tinsel Cake by April Bradley
- Used Hearse by Sandie Friedman
- Codes to Live By by Jude Higgins (Winner)
2021
- Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
- Last Day by Briana Maley
- I’ve Seen Bigger by Lori Sambol Brody (Winner)
- Pigs Die by Contstance Malloy
- Boots Left Standing Under Mud by Daryll Scroggins
- Lions by Emma Kernahan
Pushcart Nominations
2022
- Dear Leo #12 by Leonora Desar
- The Eelgrass is Dead by Gabrielle Griffis
- Come, Come by Kim Magowan
- The Live Dog Show by Angela Readman
2021
- Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
- The Ghost that Haunts my House by Madeline Anthes
- En Aeropuertos by Pat Foran
- The Swan, the Sheep, and the Bejeweled Mirror by Mary Thompson
- Trip-trapping by Sara Hills
- End of Days at the Dairy Queen by Morgana MacLeod
2020
- Nuala O’Connor “There But For”
- Rebekah Bergman “Certain Solitary Creatures”
- Hugh Behm-Steinberg “The Names of Things”
- Frankie McMillan “The Winter Swimming of my Grandmother”
- Leonora Desar “Words”
- Lori Sambol Brody “Visiting Day”
2018
- Raki Kopernik, Homely
- Jaqueline Doyle, Pretty Girl
- AE Weisgerber, Sweet Violets
- Salvatore Difalco, Three Days
- Paul Crenshaw, “Fuck Zeus,” Ms. Lynne Said in Fourth Period English
- Carolyn Oliver, The Hive Vandal
Best Small Fiction Nominations
2022
- Black Annis by Matt Kendrick (Selected)
2021
- Little Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
- When the Pregnant Girls First Arrive at St. Eulalia’s Home for the Lost and Wayward by Audra Kerr Brown (Selected)
- Regeneration by Epiphany Ferrell (Selected)
- Last Day by Briana Maley
- Uncle by Anthony Varallo
- The Ghost that Haunts My House by Madeline Anthes
- The Elephant in the Room by Frankie McMillan
2020
- The Truth about Men by Angela Readman
- Game Theory by Merridawn Duckler
- Eternal by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
- Fable Number 1: Des Moines, Iowa by Luke Rolfes
- Ward Rounds by Alexis Wolfe
- The Corridors of Longing by Gary Fincke (Selected)
2019
- Everything, then Silence by Justin Hermann
- How Not to Become an Expat by Kara Vernor
- The Difference between Alligators and Crocodiles by Cathy Ulrich
- Two Girls Contemplate What Gorillas Do at Night by Angela Readman
- Anatomy of a Marriage by Stephanie Hutton
- Shop Girl by Dionne Irving Bremyer (Selected)
- How Not to Become an Expat by Kara Vernor (Selected)
- Insurance by Elaine Chew (Selected)
BIFFY Nominations
2020
- Surveillance by Nuala O’ Connor
- The Swan, The Sheep, and the Bejeweled Mirror by Mary Thompson
- On the Last Ferry to Inishbofin by Roberta Beary
- More Than Sex by Carmen Marcus (Selected)
- Milk Teeth by Emma Kernahan (Selected)
- My Sister the Arsonist by Meg Pokrass (Selected)
Additional Awards and Collections
W.W. Norton’s Anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
- Initiation by Stuart Dybek
- Letting Go by Pamela Painter
- Hermit by Ana María Shua
2020 Wigleaf Top 50
- Three Ways of Saying the Same Thing by Leonora Desar
- Silver Bell by Evelyn Hampton
