Editor Interviews

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart, Best New Poems, Best American Poetry, Best American Fiction, and more!

Yes, every award it's eligible for.

Absolutely--and we've begun to collect some of those awards!

Yes. Pushcart, O. Henry Award, PEN Emerging Writers Awards, and WSFA, but we are willing to add others at the request of authors.

If asked I guess I would.

Yes, we nominate for Pushcarts, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, etc. Works we have published have also been included in the Wigleaf Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50, and Best American Poetry.

We nominate for Best Americans that still exist, Best of the Net, and Pushcarts.

Pushcart Prizes, Best American Series, Best Short Fiction, Best Microfiction. Three of our pieces recently won Puschart Prizes, and several works from our contributors have been reprinted in anthologies.

We nominate for:
Best of the Net
The Pushcart Prize
Best Microfiction
Best Small Fictions
And have been listed in the Wigleaf top 50

We nominate the best stories that we've published for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction.

We nominate works for the Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, the Best Small Fictions Anthology, and Best Microfictions.

Yes. We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best Spiritual Literature, Monarch Queer Literary Awards, etc., and are read for the Wigleaf Top 50.

Yes. For Best of Net and Pushcard.

Yes. We nominate for Best of the Net and Pushcart at this time.

Yes, we nominate for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize.

As of now, no.

I may be biased, but every piece we publish is a polished work of art with a story that the entire publishing house is proud of. So, absolutely! We submit our publications—novels, novellas, anthologies, individual short stories—to a variety of awards as appropriate.

We haven't nominated any work for any national or international awards yet, since we are still in the beginning stage. However, we are open to this option in the future, and we will try our best to keep track of relevant awards and nominate suitable candidates for them.

We nominate for best of the net, and are looking into other award opportunities for our contributors.

Yes! We nominate for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions Anthology, Best New Poets and Best Microfictions when we have eligible work, and the Genrepunk Awards.

Yes, to six: Pushcart Prize; Best of the Net; Forward Prizes for Poetry; Best Small Fiction; Best Microfiction; PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story prize for Emerging Writers.

I will but I haven't found the avenues yet.

BOTN, Pushcart, Best micro fictions and best short fictions.

We nominate stories for our own prize, the Intrepid Award, the InkMark Award for small/medium publications, BOTN, and the Pushcart Prize.

Yes, in 2025 we began nominating work for the, Best of the Net, and we plan to continue doing so. We're on the lookout for other awards to participate in as well. We will be nominating work for the Pushcart Prize next.

Yes. Pushcart, Sundress, Pen, etc.

This is a future goal!

We have not done so in the past, but we hope to have the time and energy to do so in the future.

Absolutely! We are enthusiastic champions of our writers, now and always! We nominate widely for awards.

Yes! We nominate work for everything we can: Best of the Net, Pushcart Prizes, Best American anthologies, The O’Henry Prize, Best Literary Translations, Best Microfictions, and other awards as applicable.

Yes, The Quasar Review nominates work for national and international awards. We nominate for Wigleaf, Pushcart, BOTN, Best New Poets, Best Small Fiction, Best American, and Pen.

We nominate for the Pushcart and are looking into other avenues for this as well.

Not yet, but we will do so this coming year.

We do! The best part of my job is asking genre editors to send me a list of the work that they would nominate for an award. I already have my favorites list, so when the genre editors are in agreement, these tend to be the works I submit for award consideration. The works that I submit for award consideration, are the ones that live in my mind and keep taking up space. I've stopped reading them, but I can't put them down.

We are an award.

Yes, if appropriate.

Not at this time, though we may consider it in the future.

IHRAM Press is a Pushcart-Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and PEN nominating literary journal.

Yes! Depending on the book, we'll nominate for various awards. The first book we published, The Ice Moves for No One, was a 2x finalist in the StoryTrade Book Awards, and is a finalist for the IBPA Book Awards, with the ceremony next week to see if we've won. TIMFNO and Beyond the Border Forest are also in the running for the Indie Book Awards.

Yes! We nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Spiritual Lit, among others.

Yes! We nominate stories and poems for the Pushcart Prize every year. We also nominate stories for The Best American Short Story anthology. We always keep our eyes open for awards we can nominate our writers for!

No.

We nominate for every suitable award we can find.

Yes. When a piece is a strong fit, we consider it for relevant national and international awards and anthologies. Nominations are selective and based on editorial consensus and eligibility requirements, and we notify authors when their work is nominated.

We submit to the Pushcart Prize each year, and we can’t wait for the day that prestigious publication finally accepts a Not Quite Write story into its pages!

No.

Yes. We nominate work published in our journal to the Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery and Suspense, Best American Food and Travel Writing, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Spiritual Literature, Best Microfiction, The Chautauqua Janus Prize, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies.

Yes; NBA, etc.

At this time we do not, however we are open to this in the future. I try to stay abreast of awards in the short fiction market, but have not yet participated in any of them.

Yes, we nominate work for as many awards we can think of! We've had Best of the Net winners, as well as Best American Essay notable selections and other winners.

We've nominated work for Best American Mystery and Suspense, Best Mystery Stories of the Year, and the Pushcart Prize, and will continue to do so.

Yes, we plan to nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, O. Henry, and the Best American Short Stories.

We haven't yet, but stay tuned!

Home Planet News hopes to engender a cooperative, rather than a competitive, venue for writers.

There aren't that many short story award categories, but if an author wants their piece nominated for something - as long as they provide us the details of the competition, we are happy to submit the application. We've nominated work for Australian writing awards as well as Canadian ones.

Yes. The Pushcart Prize.

No, but that might change in the future as we scale up. Lavender Rising's goal is to one day be a thriving community of queer creators supporting each other's careers.

We are beginning to nominate for Pushcart in 2026.

We nominate for Pushcarts and for Best of the Net. We always send in copies of the magazine to the Best American series for Nonfiction and Fiction. If we have work that fits the theme, we will send to various places for spiritual writing, nature writing, science fiction, etc...

I’m currently exploring award nominations for Anthophile. Watch this space!

Not currently, as my schedule is far too busy to remember to do this most of the time, but I'm hoping to look more into national and international awards in future.

No, as Fig Tree Lit is a monthly email publication. Our parent firm - Fig Tree Books LLC - regularly nominates its books for awards.

Yes. So far we’ve nominated for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. We may nominate for other awards in the future, too.

We submit all of our new releases for any awards they qualify for -- like the Edgar (Mystery Writers of America), the Shamus (Private Eye Writers of America), the Thriller (International Thriller Writers), the Ned Kelly award (Australian Crime Writers Association), and even the Spur (Western Writers of America), among others. We won't enter books for any awards that charge an entry fee. With rare exceptions, those are almost all scams.
We're proud that so any of the new novels we've published have won, or been finalists for, all of the awards mentioned above, as well as some others. Two of our authors -- Barbara Neely and Max Allan Collins -- were even honored as MWA Grandmasters after we signed on to publish there books.

Yes! In recent years, we've nominated pieces for the Pushcart Prize, the Best American series, Best Small Fictions, and the Pen/Robert J. Dau short story prize for emerging writers. One of our issue 12 writers was selected for a Dau prize! That was really exciting.

We send a few names into the Pushcart Prize every fall but I have never heard from them. They might have died and just keep getting mail? Who knows...

We haven’t to date, but beginning in 2026 we plan to nominate work. Highlighting pieces that linger and resonate feels like a natural next step for Neon & Smoke.

Yes. Best of the Net, Best American Short Stories, Best Short Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize.

We nominate for a variety of awards, including Best New Poets, the Best of Net Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize.

We intend to when presented with exceptional work.

In 2025, we nominated for Best of the Net, and we hope to continue this, as well as nominating for further awards, as we grow.

Yes.

Absolutely. I nominate for the Pushcart Prize as well as Best of Net. I think writers deserve to be recognized, and I'm always thrilled to give them the news when I make my selections!

I haven't but I intend to in 2026. I'm still investigating which awards - likely it will be Pushcart, BOTN and Best Microfiction.

Yep! Best Micro, BSF, Monarch, Pushcart, and BoTN!

Pushcart always - and a few others.

We nominate for any awards in which it is required for a publisher to nominate. However, all other awards must be handled by the author.

Not currently but we are working on this.

Yes, we nominate annually for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

As many as we can find.

We nominate for Pushcart, Best of, Genrepunk, and are always looking for new places to rave about our contributors.

I do! I nominate all of the SFF episodes for the Nebulas. If an author has a good idea of someplace else their story should be nominated, they should let me know. :)

Yes, we've nominated for Best of the Net and want to nominate for as many things as we can.

No.

Yes.

Yes, mostly just the major Australian awards, but also overseas, depending on author's eligibility.

We nominate for every award we can. We also ask our authors to keep an eye out for any awards they want to be nominated for, because we might not know about every award out there. We love for our authors to be recognized for their hard work.

I nominate for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, Riselings, and Dwarf Stars.

Yes! We're new to books but we're compiling a list for future nominations, and we ask our authors for their ideas as well.

Yes, we nominate for all major awards.

Yes.

Yes, when applicable.

We have not yet, but only because we didn't know we could until fairly recently. We are gathering a list of places where we can nominate pieces and plan to do so in the future.

Not yet.

We will.

We nominate for awards.

We have in the past. Limited staffing and time (our editorial team is almost entirely comprised of volunteers) has made Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations challenging, of late. We hope to return to doing so in the future.

No. I've never thought of doing that. Maybe I will in the future.

Yes we do! We submit our published writers to both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Currently we nominate for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Micro Fictions, and the Pushcart.

We do!

Yes, always. All the 'best of' anthologies plus PEN, O. Henry, and more.

Pushcart and Best of the Net

Yes! We've nominated work for Best of the Net and the Genrepunk Awards, and we are currently looking for more awards to uplift our contributors.

We nominate for Best of the Net and Pushcart.

We consider all the work we publish for nominations, including Best of the Net and Pushcart.

Yes, we nominate work we've published for inclusion in the Pushcart anthology and for any other awards for which they might be eligible.

We nominate works in the journal for the Pushcart Prize and look for additional opportunities to support contributing authors.

No, but maybe we should? I'd have to ask the writers if they would like that. If it helps a writers out in these difficult times I would in a heart beat, so long as the award organization aren't shitheads.

I plan to nominate for all awards the pieces we publish are eligible for.

I have not at this time.

I have not yet, but am looking for ways and opportunities to do this.

We do occasionally.

I nominate for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize.

We nominate for BotN, Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and other awards as we come across them.

No.

We have not, yet, but if we see the right match of story and award we would definitely be open to doing so!

The Pushcart Prize.

Yes, we do!

We do not, presently, but we may start.

Absolutely, we will nominate books we publish through Hobeck for Bloody Scotland, Crime Writers' Association daggers or the Walter Scott Prize to name just a few. If one of our writers requests we enter a book for a prize, however big or small, and so long as we can afford the entry requirements, we will do it. We are very much in favour of prizes (after all, we run one ourselves!).

Yes! As much as we can. Flash fiction is often overlooked in awards--a mindset we'd like to change!

Not yet. I did one year for another journal I edit, but it’s time-consuming, and I’m a team of one on FEED THE HOLY and the other journal I edit.

We have only begun the process of learning how to do that. We would certainly like to be able to nominate the contributors to our magazine(s) for awards, fellowships, and grants.
So far:
In 2022 and 2024, respectively, we recommended Artist, Denita Benyshek, as an Open Studios Artist in Residence grant at Botanica Gardens, Wichita, KS. and for the The Koch Cultural Trust (KCT) Fellowship.
In 2024, we recommended writer and artist, Eleanor Hudson, for a fellowship at Harvard Divinity School.
In 2015, we created an award through our umbrella, The Society for Ritual Arts for music that creates awe and wonder (The Lost Chord Award) and an award for a promising scholar, (The Eos Award) and awarded these in 2016 and 2018. We could no longer support this award when the pandemic interrupted our work. We have no plans to continue this award.

We have not yet nominated for awards, but we have plans for doing so starting from this year.

Yes: I stand by all my titles. I put a substantial amount of financial support into each book. This includes a budget line item for award submissions.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, annually.

Yes, we regularly put our books forward to the Rubery Awards , the Gothem Prize and the Kindle Storyteller Awards. We look out for other opportunities and are open to suggestions form authors.

We constantly look out for awards both national and international, where we can submit our books for awards. We also welcome suggestions by our authors. Favourites are: Rubery Awards, Gothem, Kindle Storyteller.

Yes, we regularly put our books forward to the Rubery Awards , the Gothem Prize and the Kindle Storyteller Awards. We look out for other opportunities and are open to suggestions from authors.

Yes, always!

We do not nominate work.

We do not, but this does not mean we won't.

We submit work for all the major awards that accept publisher submissions.

We haven’t at this time.

Our winners have been featured in the Poets & Writers Magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Yes, we’ve sent some to Lambda and Pushcart

We currently send most work published to be considered for Ellen Datlow's 'The Best Horror of the Year' anthology. We also have nominated for 'Best of the Net' in the past and will likely continue doing so in the future.

yes!

Yes.

We have not nominated a published item for other awards.

I'd like to do this; it's a little outside of my previous editorial experience, but when I do see an opportunity like this come across my email or feed I am thinking of which issues or pieces deserve that nomination!

Not yet, but we're looking into it!

Yes, Best of the Net and the Pushcart.

No we do not.

Award nominations are an important part of championing authors and new writing. Our masthead includes Nobel Peace Prize nominees, Pushcart prize winners, and each year I nominate our authors for international awards, such as the Caine Prize, the O Henry Prize, the Millions, Best of Net, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and Pushcart Prize. The editors and wider masthead also support these by championing specific works and authors.

In 2024 we held an inaugural Panorama Prize. Everyone on the masthead was asked to nominate one piece we’ve published during the calendar year. Our editors then went through a process of voting for work they think best represents what we’re trying to put out into the world, work that’s resonated with them, and they feel is particularly important/relevant.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd places went to Grace Loh Prasad, Devi S. Laskar, and Joelle Renstrom respectively. Honourable mentions were also awarded to authors who placed just outside the top three, by the finest of margins—Jenny Boyar, Yoko Nogami, Samuel Autman, and Katrina Woznicki.

The works awarded related a deep connection to others and place, the losses we face and ways we find to survive. There is an authenticity in the work championed by the editors that continue to set the bar for the writing we publish in Panorama. Honest moments, humble experiences which define us as people and our unique selves, unique voices, and diversity of writing and form.

We submit to all the annual anthologies!

At this point we nominate for the Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.

Yes

Yes... The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and, of course, The Cupid Prize for Excellence in Love Lit. Micromance also recognizes its most active, supportive and encouraging contributors with the Sharing The Love Service Award.

Of course.

Yes. Best of the Net, Pushcart, O'henry, Best American Series

We nominate for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize!

Yes, we nominate for the Pushcart and Best of the Net.

At the moment, we don't nominate work we've published for national or international awards, but it’s something we're definitely planning for the future. We have some exciting ideas in the works and hope to start recognizing and nominating standout pieces as we grow

That is a possibility

I have not done this so far, but it’s something I plan to do in the future.

Yes, we nominate six pieces annually for the Pushcart Prize.

We regularly nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Sundress Press's Best of the Net anthology. We think that award nominations are a win/win for any small press - it lets authors know that we recognize the outstanding quality of their work, and anytime one of our authors wins, it reflects well on us as a press.

No.

Yes, we nominate and send our books to various awards.
We also use PR and marketing tools to get bigger publicity for our books. We try to produce book trailers, and interviews with authors and illustrators. We collaborate with the authors to produce free Activity Kits for teachers/librarians and caregivers. We attend national and international book conventions.

We're a new press, so we were excited to finally get to nominate work. So far, we've nominated work from our sloppy-style issues and curated features for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net!

Not yet, but we're actively looking into adding this to our process!

We nominate our titles for various award programs both nationally and internationally, and our books have won several prestigious awards. Decisions on award nominations are made by our editorial board, and we also accept input from our authors. We also submit books to award programs on behalf of our authors.

Pushcart Prize

yes, we currently nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

Not as of yet. We are looking to add some accolades soon.

We nominate for Pushcart & Best of the Net and hope to expand our award nominations in the coming year!

No. Not generally. Not because we don't believe in the work, but because we have not figured out how to do so. If anyone wants to reach out and give us advice in this regard please do so. Contact info is on our website.

We nominate pieces for the Best of the Net and Best Microfiction Awards cycles, though we anticipate expanding our nominations as we enter our second year.

Ploughshares.

Yes, of course. All that are relevant. Blind Eye Books titles have won the Lambda, Rainbow and Carl Brandon Parallax Awards, and been shortlisted for numerous others.

No, I don't.

Yes! This is another service I provide Centaur writers. I submit the maximum number of pieces to Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. It's a fun part of editing Centaur and is exciting for the writers.

Yes! We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart, and Best Spiritual Writing.

Not yet! But as we continue to ramp up our operation that would be a good goal.

Yes, when appropriate.

Yes, we nominate for Best of the Small Presses, Best of Net, and Best Spiritual Literature. Additionally, our "Dead Herring Prize" is awarded annually to "staggering works which slay real-world red herrings in our day-to-day lives." All accepted stories, poems, prose, comics, notes, doodles, whispers, and whimsy published by Skipjack Review during the calendar year are considered.

We nominate for Best-of-the Net

Yes.

Beginning in 2024, we will nominate writers for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net.

Yes. If we know of an award our books might be appropriate for (most commonly the Edgar Allan Poe Award or the Shamus Award, but sometimes others like the Hammett Prize or the Nero Wolfe Award), we're happy to submit copies to the judges.

We (sometimes) nominate for Best of the Net but we (sometimes) forget.

We have not yet, but we would like to.

We have not nominated any work for national or international awards, yet, but we would like to in the future.

Yes! We nominate work for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Best Spiritual Literature, and other opportunities that come along.

No.

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

We have not yet, but are open to do so. We do publish some very fine writers.

I will consider doing so if the work has garners a lot of positive reviews.

Yes. We don't publish nominations, though, as I find those have a way of alienating other writers with work in the journal. I always wish we could nominate everything, as there's not one piece that appears in Annulet that I don't believe that everyone should read!

Yes.

As of now, we haven't had the time or ability to nominate work we have published for awards since we are an independent and relatively small-staffed magazine. We hope one day to be able to nominate our favorite artists and writers in the future.

No we have not, but we're willing to consider it in the future.

Yes, absolutely: Best American, O. Henry, Pushcart.

Yes. We nominate work for Pushcarts, the Sundress Best of the Net, and various others.

I nominate work we've published to the Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. Big Other has received awards from the Best American Poetry, the Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, the British Science Fiction Association, Entropy, and Wigleaf.

It depends on the work we've received. But generally, no.

Yes, absolutely. We like to honor our authors and their hard work. We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart, and the Best Small Fictions Anthology. Our authors have won BOTN awards and have been included in the Best Small Fiction Anthology. Our authors have also been shortlisted/longlisted for BOTN, BSFA, and for Wigleaf’s top 50.

Absolutely! We nominate to the Best of the Net Anthology and hopefully to our own awards and prizes soon!

Yes; that's important to us. We want our writers' work to live on beyond our pages. We nominate/send issues to the Best American series, O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, etc. etc.

We attempt to do so, of course, and if any of our contributors raise the possibility of their candidacy for a particular award we will do what is required to put them forward.

No--the only books we publish (forthcoming) are our own.

Starting with the 2023 edition, we are nominating for the Pushcart Prize.

SORTES is currently treading water beautifully, but someday we hope to to swim for such shores.

Absolutely! We take every opportunity--O. Henry, Pushcart, Best of, and more!

Yes, we nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets.

We plan to do that starting now.

We publish the 1st place winners of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology's annual prizes for creative ethnographic prose and poetry. Second and third prize winners are invited to submit through our peer review process.

I do nominate writers for best of the net and will also be nominating writers for the Pushcart this year.

No

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

We currently do not nominate for awards but hope to do so in the future for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net (and possibly other awards as well).

Yes, all major literary awards.

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and are currently looking to participate in other awards as well.

Some. Edgars, Shamus, Agatha, and Derringers, Crime Writers of Canada.

We nominate for The Pushcart Prize.

We nominate for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. We hope to start nominating for other awards and prizes.

Fuckin’ a we do!! I personally mailed a copy of our journal that featured “Hair Sestina,” by Alexis Sears, which David Lehman selected for the Best American Poetry Series 2022.

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

We have not yet worked on nominating our work for awards. However, we've been starting to explore both awards and Best-Of releases for future nominations.

Some years we nominate for the Pushcart Award. The Journal itself has won some awards that I applied for both in the US and Canada. We nominate both the magazine and authors in it for various awards.

Sometimes.

Yes. We do.

Yes! We are proud of our contributors, and share their work widely. In fact, we have received eight Best American Essay citations in the last four years.

We've nominated work in the past for plain china's "Best of Undergraduate Writing" anthology.

Yes! We nominate for the Best of the Net, Best of Small Fictions, Pushcart Literary Awards, and any other awards we can in the United States.

We have nominated work for The Pushcart, The Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Spiritual Literature Anthology, published by Orison Books, The Best Literary Translations 2024. We are also open to nominating for new competitions as we become aware of them.

No.

No.

Yes we nominate works we feel have a chance to win.

Not yet. But we would love to.

It’s a new magazine, so I haven’t had the chance yet, but I intend to.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

Yes, of course. SALMAGUNDI work is often selected for Pushcart Prizes and sometimes for Best American Essays. Our international readership is pretty limited and we are not in touch with prize opportunities outside the U.S. and Canada, alas.

Yes.

We don't do this at the moment, but we are open to exploring this.

Yes, we nominate most books we publish for at least a handful of awards. We can't always submit to every award a writer identifies as a possibility, just due to costs, but we do our best to hit the most relevant ones.

We sure do! This is our first year of publication as the rebooted Dodge, so we're still working out our award submission schedule.

No.

Yes. Last year we nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. We hope to nominate for more awards in the future.

Yes! And we're always interested in talking with authors about the prizes that they are aware of in their niche that we should add to our list.

That is on my list to start doing. I get some magnificent pieces I think deserve more acclaim than just being published.

Best American Essays and Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards (when they're offered)

I do not personally nominate work as a general rule. The publisher may.

This is an award but the anthology has also won awards, so yes, we do.

We've not been doing that; however, we plan to take that up, come August.

Not at this time.

We nominate for Best of The Net, and the Pushcart Prize. We will nominate to local and regional literary awards, particularly those centered on the Delmarva Peninsula.

We currently nominate our authors for seven contests: Rhysling Awards, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, Best Microfiction, O. Henry Prize, Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best Small Fictions. We put a premium on lifting up our authors as much as we can. We know how hard it is out there for authors. If we missed any contests, please send us an email!

Of course! We announce our Pushcart slate at the end of the year, and we advocate for our stories in prestigious award competitions like the Hugos, Nebulas, Year's Best Science Fiction, etc.

Seaside Gothic nominates work for the Pushcart Prize, along with other specific awards where applicable.

Not for Kaidankai.

We submit to the genre awards that require submissions/nominations, such as the Stoker and the Shirley Jackson. Many awards in genre fiction, however, are not open to nominations outside the particular voting block (such as SFWA for the Nebulas and the convention membership for the Hugos).

No.

Almost every year we've submitted Pushcart nominees. We know the competition is stiff so we only nominate truly outstanding work.

We'lll be doing so with relish.

Not at the moment, but it is something I'm working towards.

Yes. Our books have won The Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Essays, The Chicago Review of Books Award for Poetry, The IPPY Silver Medal for Poetry, and two awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, as well as being named finalists for The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, The Balcones Fiction Prize, The New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, and The Paterson Poetry Prize.

We recently started nominating work for Pushcart Prizes, and we are excited to continue doing so.

Yes. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction. We also have our own Editor’s Choice Award each year.

Yes. We are very proactive at submitting work which appears in Saddlebag Dispatches for awards such as the WWA Spur Award, the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award, and The Will Rogers Medallion award. When appropriate, we have nominated published stories or articles for the Women Writing the West's Laura or Downing awards. We love to see our authors collecting awards.

Yes.

No.

Yes, as many as possible.

We do! And I am delighted to say that a number of our pieces have been selected for those awards.

Yes, we nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

Yes. We submit each one of our books to two or three book awards. We appreciate, but don't require, if our authors submit to additional awards.

We do not.

Yes, we nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

The Pushcart Prize, and other relevant awards.

No. But we sometimes will suggest that an author submit to another competition/publication if we feel it appropriate.

Yes, we do. We nominate for Pushcart, the Best American series, and others.

Yes, most every year we nominate a couple of pieces for The Pushcart Prize.

Yes, of course. I love each person I accept and want to do my best to make sure they get further exposure if I can help them do that in any way as an editor. I am still old-fashioned and do not list the authors who have been nominated, nor do I let them know. I only want them to know when they have won an award, not when they've lost. All my writers and artists are winners for being published here in the first place, and if we can beef up their popularity even more by helping them win an award from outside of our circle, I'm all for that!

Yes. I nominate our books to the Bram Stoker Awards with the Horror Writers Association.

Not yet. But we are looking forward to including it in the near future.

As a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, I plan to make Derringer Award nominations when the window next opens.

We nominate work to Pushcart and Best of the Net. We are always interested in promoting our writers in whatever way we can.

Reed Magazine participates in nominations for Pushcart and the Best American Series regularly.

Cavar: We nominate for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

We make an effort to nominate stories for the Bram Stoker Awards whenever possible.

Unfortunately, we do not. However, this is certainly something I would like to look into potentially starting with our journal. We do, however, feature one submission monthly on our webpage.

Yes.

Yes.
Pushcart Prize
The Best of the Net

We always put our anthologies forward for consideration for awards. Our books have won or been finalists for several international awards over the years. You can see our website for more information.

Yes! Our works have been nominated for awards like the SFPA Elgin Award, HWA Bram Stoker Awards, and we also nominate for independent publisher awards.

Yes! 2020 was the first year we nominated for the Pushcart and Best of Net. It was really fun to go through as an editorial team and choose some of our favorite works.

Yes we do - but very selectively. Sadly most awards still require physical copies so the cost of entering is huge for niche publishers - we can't enter all the awards we would like to.

No.

Yes, we nominate work for the Pushcart Awards every year. We hope to do more in the future.

I would love to nominate our work because it is the work of everyday moms that we publish. I would like more people to know about us and help us continue to grow, providing a strong, supportive platform for struggling moms of all ages across the globe, actually. We have contributors nationwide, across the borders and even overseas. Thank you for sharing our work here.

We haven't begun to nominate our published pieces yet for awards. However, some of our accepted works have been noticed on the magazine and recommended for prizes. We hope to start recommending soon.

I did when a winner encouraged me to. If you'd like this service, please nudge me, okay?

Yes, we nominate pieces published with us for the Pushcart Prize and other literary awards from time to time.

Not yet, we're brand new.

Yes! It’s an important way to support our contributors’ work. We nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and others. Our nominee Mary McLaughlin Slechta’s work was selected for this year’s Best Small Fictions.

Yes, we do.

Yes. We nominate for all major awards. Since we are not a paying market this is the least
we can do as a thank you to our contributors. I wish we could nominate more people,
we publish so many great stories.

Yes—we nominate work for most major awards literary magazines are eligible for. Thus far, work in Porter House Review has been recognized by Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and PEN America. Porter House Review was also selected as Best Debut Magazine by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) in 2020.

We're still very new and getting to grips with the whole awards scene but we would definitely like to!

Sometimes.

Yes! We nominated our first Pushcart Prize nominee in 2019, and hope to do more of the same this year.

We are a very small staff, so we often don't have the time to nominate the work in our pages, although we have rotating volunteers and interns who allow us to do so on an intermittent basis.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

Yes.

Yes

Yes, I nominate pieces for the Pushcart Prize, and I'm open to other suggestions.

No. Not yet.

Not directly, no.

Not yet. We're looking into it.

Yes, we currently nominate to the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction and the BIFFY top 50. We will also be nominating to the Best Small Fictions in their next submission window.

No.

We nominate the stories we publish for any awards that seem appropriate, and we've had a fair degree of success.

Yes. We nominate writing from The Sun for the Pushcart Prize, as well as any of the Best American collections that might apply to what we’ve published in a given year, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Spiritual Writing. We’ve also nominated authors for other accolades, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.

We nominate for as many awards as possible! We loyally nominate pieces for the Pushcart Prize and are very honored to be able to say that flash fiction pieces originally published in SAND have been included in three Best Small Fictions anthologies. Stories published in SAND have also been shortlisted for the 2018 and 2019 Stack Awards in Best Original Fiction.

We are proud to nominate work in every major category including The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions.

Yes, we actually have nominated works just this past year for Best of Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best Microfiction. For next year, we plan to nominate Best Small Fictions, and hopefully one day we are able to have the capacity to nominate for Best American Short Stores, Best American Mysteries, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Essays and Best New Poets.

Yes. We have had one shortlisted for a Royal Society of Literature Award, Black Tea by Stephen Morris.

We nominate for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Yes,

Yes. But I like for the author to investigate those awards and help me with decisions.

Not at this time.

Currently, we nominate for the Pushcart, the Shirley Jackson, and Datlow’s Best of the Year anthologies. We plan to expand this list, but nominations are our choice and aren’t automatic—we may not nominate work for each award every year; in addition, we have someone not connected with our selection or editorial processes who decides what to nominate, as we feel it’s the only way to ensure a completely unbiased nomination.

We nominate our pieces for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Pushcart, Best American Essays, and more!

We will be nominating this year's best pieces for the Pushcart Prize.

We are considering some sort of nominating and/or award at the end of the year. Please stay tuned!

we nominate for pushcarts as often as possible for the magazine.
our books are nominated for oregon book awards. & we keep our ears to the ground for international awards, esp. for those books we've published by european or latin american writers. & sometimes there are grants available for those sorts of works & we apply for those when we can.

No, we currently don't nominate work, though we are considering this for the future.

Yes, we process the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers.
3 annual cash awards of $200 for best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction selected from among the works we publish.

Yes, we nominate work for Pushcart Prizes and Best New Poets, and we have our own Spring contests every year, each with a cash prize of $500.

We are just beginning to dip our feet into the award realm. We want to give our authors as much exposure as possible and awards are a fantastic way to do that, but we also don't want to be known for catering solely to prestige. We care about fostering a strong writing scene in our home institution and amongst undergraduate universities first and foremost--the awards and monetary considerations come secondary.

no. But the work we publish is eligible for additional exposure in The Write City Review, an anthology of both poetry, short pieces, and artwork that we publish in printed form on an annual basis.

Yes, we nominate work for the Pushcart Prize!

Yes we nominate for all the major short form awards including Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, The BIFFY and The Pushcart.

Yes--the Pushcart Prize.

Yes, though it's a lot to keep up with!

We publish to O. Henry, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart prizes.

This is the first year of full-time operations, but that is our plan. We intend to nominate for every award our writers are eligible for, and advocate their work in every way we can.

From time to time we’ve done so, but most our our work is on the short-ish side of award criteria, so mostly we do not.

No. Book awards are much like any other type of award, in that they are more like popularity contests than anything based on merit. To paraphrase Woody Allen, if you accept an award when they give it to you, you also have to accept it when they don't.

Where possible I do nominate published work for awards. Last year we submitted a few nominations to the Pushcart prize for example. We try to nominate poetry for the Best of Net anthology

Yes: We send work to the Best American series, and make annual nominations for the Pushcart Prize. We also submit to smaller contests where applicable.

Yes, of course!

We do sometimes publish an anthology of "the best" stories that previously appeared.

We do not have the capacity to do that. However, many writers we publish have gone on to be published by other presses, some of whom were discovered in streetcake. Moreover, we established our prize in 2019 to recognise young writers creating exciting innovative work, which has been hugely successful and aided writers' development.

yes

Yes! We keep a schedule of anthologies and awards for which our published poems qualify, and we submit as many nominations as we can. RHINO poems have appeared in the Pushcart Anthology and have garnered Illinois Arts Council awards that can come with a $1000 grant. In addition, we automatically consider every submission for our Editors' Prize, which includes a $500 first prize; plus, our Founders' Prize contest also offers a $500 first prize, with every submission considered for publication.

Usually Pushcart.

Absolutely! We nominate Pushcarts every year, and often submit pieces to the Best American genre anthologies. We also heavily publicize our Finalist lists from our contests.

No.

Yes, if there's a great story, then I'd definitely do it.

Yes, with enthusiasm. I feel that this is part of my job as an editor. Recently, pieces from our magazine have been featured in the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Wordpress.com has also featured our work in their yearly roundups Nothing has brought me more pride as an editor than bringing that next level of attention to our contributors.

Yes! We already nominated for Pushcart and will be nominating Best of the Net next year. We are always open to spreading the word about our wonderful artists.

We have nominated work for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, for Best of the Net, and for the Vestal prizes. We are considering additional nominations.
We publish an annual limited-run print chapbook of our Pushcart nominees, to be released each November.

We are a young magazine, so we have not yet, but we're excited to start nominating the pieces we've published for awards.

A few. We'd like to do more.

Yes, we try to participate in as many awards as we are eligible for. Our most recent win was Jeannette Ng for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now named the Astounding Award).

We most certainly do. It's one of the benefits of our magazine. We want those we admire to be read by as many as possible. Nominations help the author, and shed light on the Blue Mountain Review. It is our responsibility to do all we can to sing praises of those we publish.

Yes! We nominate for the Pushcart and Best of the Net, and may yet widen our pool of nominations.

We haven't had the opportunity yet. So for now, the answer is no. This may change.

Yes, we nominate work for the Pushcart Prize and, when appropriate, Best American Mysteries, and of course we send copies to Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

Sometimes.

Sometimes

We nominate for the Forward Prizes. We have lapsed in nominating for the Pushcart in recent years but we will recommence. Our work has also been selected for Best American Poetry anthologies.

Some times. It's best for authors to be up on these awards and willing to ask us.

We'll be nominating for Best Small Fiction, Best Microfiction and hopefully more.

Yes, we nominate for Pushcart, O.Henry and others. We just had a Witness story win the most recent O.Henrys, and Witness has had notable stories in the last several Best American Short Stories.

NO

Yes.

We have and will continue to do so in the future.

If I am notified of awards by the award's organizers, I inform writers of the opportunity, and help them with the application. There are a few awards that I automatically apply for annually. I invite writers to inform me of any awards they are interested in applying for, and I help them with the application process. PLJ has won a CCCC award and several essays from it have been reprinted in Gale's collections (at a $200 per article profit to the author).

Yes! Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, various PEN awards... basically everything we can find to nominate for. We love our writers and want to see their words in more places.

Currently the Drabblecast does not and has not the past 10 years since starting. I might be interested in helping promote an author win an award on a beautiful story that first appeared in our market, but as a business, the winning large awards is not our goal or part of our general values.

Yes, we nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

We haven't yet, but if we can find a place to nominate our stories, we certainly will.

We make nominations for the Pushcart Prize every year.

Yes, we do.

Yes. Both for the books we publish as well as pieces published in the Review.

Yes, we nominated six pieces for the Puschcart prize this year.

No.

Rarely. It's mostly a waste of time.

We had two pieces last year that were nominated for the Pushcart prize. We are working on expanding this.

Both of our contests, The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award (for full-length short stories) and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, are international award competitions. We receive submissions from all around the English-speaking world.

I've not done that yet, but I do encourage authors to submit to competitions and awards so that they give visibility for their work.

As of yet no, but NUNUM is only six months out of the womb. Is this something we intend to do, one hundred percent. For every single one we can, we will. It is in our submission guidelines that we will. It is in the acceptance letter that we send to our contributors. And even more than just nominating the piece NUNUM was fortunate enough to publish, we want to help with their future successes as well. If they have a reading, a new publication, an interesting project, a whatever - if they let us know, our social media will sign about it. We want to build relationships with our writers and artists, I know it isn't for everyone, but it is important for me to make sure the opportunity is there for everyone NUNUM publishes, anything NUNUM can do to help them be successful, it'll get done.

We nominate for all the major prize anthologies, some more specialized awards, and some international awards. We remain open to authors we've published who request that we nominate work for specific recognitions and try to accommodate them when we can.

We do Pushcart Prize nominations every year. We also have books we have nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but we don't often do this.

Yes, we nominate for Pushcarts, Best American, and Best of the Net.

Yes! Of course we do. Our website (www.tahomaliteraryreview.com) will tell you more.

Yes, we submit nominations for Pushcart, BASS and the like.

Yes. We go to bat for our writers on social media as well. We also have internal awards, such as the Red Lobster Prize, an editors' choice for the best piece in a given issue.

We do! We currently nominate for Bettering American Poetry, the Pushcart, Best of the Net, the Saboteur Awards, Firecracker Awards, Best Small Fictions, and several more specific awards and anthologies.

We nominate work for the Best of the Net.

Pushcart; Best Non-required Reading; Bettering American Poetry; Best New Poets Series; Lambda Literary Awards, among others.

We nominate our winners for Best of the Net, and are happy to nominate for other eligible awards that the author may suggest. Jocelyn Pihlaja's "Family, Edited" was a 2016 Best of the Net essay that we nominated: http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/2016/pihlaja.htm

Yes: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions

We have nominated in the past (on occasion, our nominees have been selected as winners) but we can't guarantee nominations going forward.

We nominate for all the prize anthologies.

We plan to nominate work this year for the first time. We spent our launch year (2017) getting off the ground and look forward this year to identifying notable work for nomination. We plan to nominate selected pieces for the Pushcart Prize, as well as for Best of Net.

As Editor-in-Chief of Issue #9, it is one of my goals to nominate works for both the Nebula and Hugo awards, among others.

Yes. We have nominated work to both the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. We intend to continue nominating for those and other awards in the future.

Yup—we absolutely do. We submit annually to the Pushcart Prizes, the Best American series, the O. Henry Awards, and the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories and Caine Prize (when we have eligible stories).
A note here about being nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Many of the author bios that come to us let us know that the author or a specific piece of writing was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I think what a lot of people don't realize is that anyone can nominate themselves for a Pushcart. Saying that you or a piece of writing was nominated for Pushcart is essentially meaningless. On the other hand, if something you wrote received a Pushcart Notable Mention or won a Pushcart, those are accolades worth touting.

Yes. We nominate for Pushcart, Best of Web and a few others.

Yes, we do—and we're delighted to be able to do so.

We provide our own awards; all submissions are automatically entered, free of charge, in our contests for poetry, prose, and visual art.

We nominate selected work for the Pushcart Prize every year.

Yes. Pushcart and O'Henry prizes, and any other that we seem appropriate. We also submit to CLMP's Firecracker Awards and the ASME Awards.

Yes, we nominate stories for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays.

We submit to dozens of national, local and environmental awards. Work published in Flyway is regularly considered for Year's Best... and Best American... anthologies.

Yes! In the past several years, stories published in Third Coast have gone on to appear in the O. Henry Award Series, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. Poetry first featured in the journal has been selected for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize Series.

Yes.

I do nominate work published in The Airgonaut for a variety of things including Best Small Fictions, the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, storySouth's Million Writers Award, and so forth. And I love to see stories included in any of these. I just today had two stories I published this past year included in Wigleaf's longlist for the Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2016, something I'm especially proud of on behalf of the included authors, A.E. Weisgerber and Hugo Esteban Rodriguez, and for myself and my journal.

Yes, we nominate work we've published for inclusion in the Pushcart anthology and for any other awards for which they might be eligible.

Yes.

We do not, not at this time.

Yes. We nominate our favorite work for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, the Best American series, and the Million Writers award.

We nominate one prose writer and one poet for Pushcart every November.