“The Board<\/a>” by Elif Batuman was named a Distinguished Story by Best American Short Stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Tender<\/a>” by Sarah LaBrie received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “self-portrait as that one scene from\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon: The First Movie<\/em><\/a>” by Ty Raso was a Best of Net 2025 finalist (Sundress Publications).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sundays Are for Yard Work<\/a>” by Kate Brody was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025 and was a spotlighted story by Best Small Fictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen Fire Owns the Air<\/a>\u201d by Tochukwu Okafor was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Following His Successful Cruise Ship Essay, David Foster Wallace Rides the Amtrak 79 Carolinian<\/a>” by Rebecca Saltzman was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPhenotype<\/a>\u201d by Alexandra Chang was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Extinction<\/a>” by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cQuantum Voicemail<\/a>\u201d by Kristen Iskandrian was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2024<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChicken-Flavored and Lemon-Scented<\/a>\u201d by Katherine Heiny was named a distinguished short story in The Best American Short Stories 2024<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI Am the Three Things a Woman Should Never Be<\/a>\u201d by Autumn Fourkiller was named a distinguished essay in The Best American Essays 2024<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Didi<\/a>” by Amber Caron was included in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Tunneling<\/a>” by Josh Denslow was included in Best Small Fictions 2024<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Oracle<\/a>\u201d by Joanna Pearson received a special mention in The Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTime of Mother<\/a>\u201d by Jefferson Navicky was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGod, Dog, Daughter<\/a>\u201d by Jake Marmer was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Compromisos<\/a>” by Manuel Mu\u00f1oz was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It Is What It Is<\/a>” by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Mine<\/a>” by Nathan Harris was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Maniacs<\/a>” by Brendan Mathews was named a distinguished short story in The Best American Short Stories 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “X\u00edf\u00f9<\/a>” by K-Ming Chang was included in The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLooking Back, Was I the Idiot?<\/a>\u201d by Sadie Graham was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Valley of the Moon<\/a>” by Leigh Newman was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFlip Lady<\/a>\u201d by Ladee Hubbardwas included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Make Yourself into a House<\/a>” by Grace Shuyi Liew was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Winner Is<\/a>\u201d by Elaine Crauder was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n rosie the robot<\/a>, by aureleo sans was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGod Joins a Writing Workshop and the Old Testament Critique Doesn\u2019t Go Well<\/a>\u201d by RL Maizes was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Great Escape<\/a>” by Hilma Wolitzer was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “aila kageyama<\/a>” by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi was included in The Best Small Fictions 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Today<\/a>” by Nardine Taleb was included in The Best Small Fictions 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Long Live the Girl Detective<\/a>” by Megan Pillow was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Please Just Let Women Be Villains<\/a>” by Elyse Martin was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A Cultural History of Racial Fraud<\/a>” by April Yee was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Would Taylor Swift Eat My Gimbap?<\/a>” by Giaae Kwon was named a notable essay in The Best American Food Writing 2022<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThree Men on a Boat<\/a>\u201d by Jen Corrigan was included in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCampfire Outside Valdorros<\/a>\u201d by Julian Zabalbeascoa was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Son<\/a>” by Mike Schoch was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Pink Noise<\/a>” by Julia LoFaso was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Big Bang<\/a>” by Sara Cappell Thomason was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In Praise of the Corn-Pone Opinion<\/a>” by Andree Bagoo was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It\u2019s Time to Take California Back from Joan Didion<\/a>” by Myriam Gurba was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “So Gentle You Don’t Feel It<\/a>” by Nancy Ludmerer was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Day Eighty-four<\/a>” by Aimee Bender was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Night of the Living<\/a>” by Susan Leslie Moore was included in The Best American Poetry 2020<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Osterizer Classic Series 10 Cycle Blender<\/a>” by Emily Everett was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Wishbone<\/a>” by Rachel Heng was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Theories of Point of View Shift for AC\/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’<\/a>” by Jennifer Wortman was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Walking Into the River<\/a>” by Alejandra Oliva was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Grieving for Fascists<\/a>” by Olivia Giovetti was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Gator Butchering For Beginners<\/a>” by Kristen Arnett was included in The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Juliet Changes Her Mind<\/a>” by Amelia Gray was included in The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “My Sister, the Arsonist<\/a>” by Meg Pokrass was included in Best British & Irish Flash Fiction, 2019-2020<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “i love you<\/a>” by Kathy Fish was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Horror Lives in the Body<\/a>” by Megan Pillow was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2019<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Good Hours<\/a>” by Desiree Cooper was included in The Best Small Fictions 2018<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Someone is Recording<\/a>” by Lynn Coady was included in Best Canadian Stories 2018<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sundays<\/a>” by Emma Copley Eisenberg was named a notable story in The Best American Short Stories 2018<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Nothing Comes Back from the Dump<\/a>” by Robert Long Foreman was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “What ‘Halloween’ Taught Me About Queerness<\/a>” by Richard Scott Larson was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Delhi’s Current Flows On<\/a>” by Amy Yee won the 2017 award for Outstanding Piece of Literary Non-fiction by South Asian Journalists Association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “If I Only Had a Leg<\/a>” by Greg Marshall was included in The Best American Essays 2017<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Everything You Want Right Here<\/a>” by Delaney Nolan was included in The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 Edition<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We Are Persistence Runners<\/a>” by Jenniey Tallman received a special mention in The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 Edition<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “How Not to Speak Polish<\/a>” by Janine Mikosza was 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