2025
“Sundays Are for Yard Work” by Kate Brody was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025.
“When Fire Owns the Air” by Tochukwu Okafor was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025.
“Following His Successful Cruise Ship Essay, David Foster Wallace Rides the Amtrak 79 Carolinian” by Rebecca Saltzman was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2025.
2024
“Phenotype” by Alexandra Chang was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024.
“Extinction” by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024.
“Quantum Voicemail” by Kristen Iskandrian was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2024.
“Chicken-Flavored and Lemon-Scented” by Katherine Heiny was named a distinguished short story in The Best American Short Stories 2024.
“I Am the Three Things a Woman Should Never Be” by Autumn Fourkiller was named a distinguished essay in The Best American Essays 2024.
“Didi” by Amber Caron was included in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners.
“Tunneling” by Josh Denslow was included in Best Small Fictions 2024.
“The Oracle” by Joanna Pearson received a special mention in The Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024.
“Time of Mother” by Jefferson Navicky was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024.
“God, Dog, Daughter” by Jake Marmer was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024.
2023
“Compromisos” by Manuel Muñoz was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023.
“It Is What It Is” by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023.
“The Mine” by Nathan Harris was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023.
“Maniacs” by Brendan Mathews was named a distinguished short story in The Best American Short Stories 2023.
“Xífù” by K-Ming Chang was included in The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners.
“Looking Back, Was I the Idiot?” by Sadie Graham was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2023.
“Valley of the Moon” by Leigh Newman was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023.
“Flip Lady” by Ladee Hubbardwas included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023.
“Make Yourself into a House” by Grace Shuyi Liew was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.
“The Winner Is” by Elaine Crauder was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.
rosie the robot, by aureleo sans was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.
“God Joins a Writing Workshop and the Old Testament Critique Doesn’t Go Well” by RL Maizes was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023.
2022
“The Great Escape” by Hilma Wolitzer was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2022.
“aila kageyama” by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi was included in The Best Small Fictions 2022.
“Today” by Nardine Taleb was included in The Best Small Fictions 2022.
“Long Live the Girl Detective” by Megan Pillow was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022.
“Please Just Let Women Be Villains” by Elyse Martin was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2022.
“A Cultural History of Racial Fraud” by April Yee was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2022.
“Would Taylor Swift Eat My Gimbap?” by Giaae Kwon was named a notable essay in The Best American Food Writing 2022.
“Three Men on a Boat” by Jen Corrigan was included in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror.
“Campfire Outside Valdorros” by Julian Zabalbeascoa was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.
“Son” by Mike Schoch was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.
“Pink Noise” by Julia LoFaso was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.
“The Big Bang” by Sara Cappell Thomason was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022.
2021
“In Praise of the Corn-Pone Opinion” by Andree Bagoo was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021.
“It’s Time to Take California Back from Joan Didion” by Myriam Gurba was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021.
“So Gentle You Don’t Feel It” by Nancy Ludmerer was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021.
“Day Eighty-four” by Aimee Bender was included on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021.
2020
“Night of the Living” by Susan Leslie Moore was included in The Best American Poetry 2020.
“Osterizer Classic Series 10 Cycle Blender” by Emily Everett was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology.
“Wishbone” by Rachel Heng was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology.
“Theories of Point of View Shift for AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’” by Jennifer Wortman was included in The Best Small Fictions 2020 Anthology.
“Walking Into the River” by Alejandra Oliva was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020.
“Grieving for Fascists” by Olivia Giovetti was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020.
2019
“Gator Butchering For Beginners” by Kristen Arnett was included in The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology.
“Juliet Changes Her Mind” by Amelia Gray was included in The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology.
“My Sister, the Arsonist” by Meg Pokrass was included in Best British & Irish Flash Fiction, 2019-2020.
“i love you” by Kathy Fish was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2019.
“Horror Lives in the Body” by Megan Pillow was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2019.
2018
“The Good Hours” by Desiree Cooper was included in The Best Small Fictions 2018.
“Someone is Recording” by Lynn Coady was included in Best Canadian Stories 2018.
“Sundays” by Emma Copley Eisenberg was named a notable story in The Best American Short Stories 2018.
“Nothing Comes Back from the Dump” by Robert Long Foreman was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018.
“What ‘Halloween’ Taught Me About Queerness” by Richard Scott Larson was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018.
2017
“Delhi’s Current Flows On” by Amy Yee won the 2017 award for Outstanding Piece of Literary Non-fiction by South Asian Journalists Association.
“If I Only Had a Leg” by Greg Marshall was included in The Best American Essays 2017.
“Everything You Want Right Here” by Delaney Nolan was included in The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 Edition.
“We Are Persistence Runners” by Jenniey Tallman received a special mention in The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017 Edition.
“How Not to Speak Polish” by Janine Mikosza was included in The Best Australian Essays 2017.
“Youth” by Swati Pandey was named a notable story in The Best American Short Stories 2017.
2016
“The Swim” by Anne Emond was included in The Best American Comics 2016.
