nominations
Prizes We Nominate for
We champion writers and artists along their publishing journeys. Nominations for literary prizes are an important part of publication.

Pushcart Prize
poetry, short stories, essays, etc.

Best of the Net
poem, story, art, or essay published online

Best Microfiction
flash under 400 words

Best Small Fictions
flash, microfiction, haibun, and prose poems up to 1000 words
nominated
contributors

Nominations for 2025
Pilot (poetry)
by Brandon Shane
Road Trip Postcards (poetry)
by Marjorie Thomsen
Church of the Righteous Lamb of God (prose)
by Sage Tyrtle
My Head (prose)
by Paul Allatson
Nominations for 2019
Issue: V2-1
Haiku (poetry)
by Norman Wm. Muise
Issue: V2-2
Golden Hour (prose)
by Shawn McClure
Issue: V2-6
Liza with a “Thank You for Restoring my Sanity” (poetry)
by Steven Crimaldi
Issue: V2-6
Lost (poetry)
by Joseph Murphy
Issue: V2-6
A Sound Like Falling Snow (prose)
by Cathy Ulrich
Issue: V2-6
Helen Shapiro (prose)
by David McVey
Nominations for 2025
Flow State (prose)
by Salvatore Difalco
Pilot (poetry)
by Brandon Shane
Easing the Spring (art)
by Amy Marques
Childish Cravings (100WS)
by Elena Zhang
the digital footprint of Jesus cemented in the void (art)
by Kevin R. Farrell, Jr.
Nominations for 2025
Sweet Nothings Are a Diary… (prose)
by Keith J. Powell
Fractions (prose)
by JoAnna Scandiffio
My Head (prose)
by Paul Allatson
Burnt Lemon (prose)
by Emma Allmann
The Ball (prose)
by Lance Manion
Nominations for 2025
Flow State (prose)
by Salvatore Difalco
All Things White (prose)
by Kelli Short Borges
Mountain Clock (poetry)
by Sara McClayton
Stolen Colours (prose)
by Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch
The Marionette (poetry)
by Ivan Niccolai
Nominations for 2024
Undone (poetry)
by Halley Fehner
How to Catch Salmon in the Beautiful Frigid Waters of Alaska (poetry)
by Bryan Fitzgerald
Room 139 in the Psychology Building (prose)
by Amy Marques
Maman (prose)
by Logan Rose
Nominations for 2019
Issue: V2-1
The Fury of the Filament
by Michael Patrick Brady
Issue: V2-2
Death Pool
by Timothy Gager
Issue: V2-3
Music Absorbs What the Body Can’t
by Meg Tuite
Issue: V2-4
Death in the Afternoon
by Adam Lock
Issue: V2-6
Ryan Gosling’s Heartstrings
by Marisa Crane
Nominations for 2018
2016
by Ashley Gardana
Issue 9 of Ink In Thirds – February 2017
The Substance of Us
by Christina Dalcher
Issue 9 of Ink In Thirds – February 2017
How To Cook Your Dead Wife
by Mark Farley
Issue 9 of Ink In Thirds – March 2017