At Exposition Review, our mission is to continue to create opportunities for our ever-growing community of talented writers and artists to share their voices and grow their platforms. This is why, every year, we submit some of our strongest published work for a variety of prestigious literary awards and anthologies. We are proud to present our nominees from our “Flux” issue for the following awards:
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is one of the most honored awards in the literary world, with the winning pieces published in an annual anthology. We are excited to present this group of writers from our “Flux” issue for inclusion in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses collection:
Fiction: Rule of Thumb: Discard Everything by Laura Freudig
Fiction: Little Star by Bernard Steeds
Nonfiction: Her Hypothetical by Jodi Scott Elliott
Poetry: Touching Myself While Pregnant by Marianne Chan
Poetry: If I keep saying flowers in enough poems, I wonder if they’ll ever finally bloom by jason b crawford
Poetry: Ballet Is Never Enough by Lynda V. E. Crawford
Best of the Net
Best of the Net from Sundress Publications is an annual anthology that celebrates online publications and works originally published online. When selecting our nominees, we think of our favorite pieces that recognize and embrace the opportunities of digital media, experimenting with form, genre, and content. From “Flux,” we nominated these pieces:
Fiction: The Dance by Kylee Webb
Fiction: Unstable Relationship by Lucy Zhang
Nonfiction: Psychological Thriller by Charles Jensen
Nonfiction: Papi and I Have the Same Eyebrows by Tania Perez Osuna
Poetry: Touching Myself While Pregnant by Marianne Chan
Poetry: What Are You Looking For? by Zachary Guerra
Poetry: Unrequited by Stephanie Kaylor
Poetry: tectonic by Alejandra Medina
Poetry: Metamorphosis by Stella Reed
Poetry: Stasha by Stella Reed
Art/Comics: Untitled Series by Dmitry Borshch
Art/Comics: Selected Comics by Meg Reynolds
Art/Comics: Not Made to Last by Rebekah Scotland
The Best Small Fictions
The Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology dedicated solely to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. The collection features the best microfiction, flash fiction, haibun stories, and prose poetry from around the world. Our 2022 nominees came from our “Flux” issue and Flash 405 contests:
Solo by Katy Carl
Stasha by Stella Reed
Jeeva Jothi by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
A Different Kind of Smoke by Cathy Ulrich
Unstable Relationship by Lucy Zhang
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series, coedited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, recognizes outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. We nominated our flash fiction section from our “Flux” issue:
Rings by Carolyn Oliver
A Different Kind of Smoke by Cathy Ulrich
Unstable Relationship by Lucy Zhang
Nina Riggs Poetry Award
Each year, Cave Wall awards at least one poet for the finest writing that examines relationships, family, or domestic life in order to honor poet Nina Riggs, author of The Bright Hour and Lucky Lucky. Because poems published in journals and books during the previous three years are eligible for The Nina Riggs Poetry Award, we dove into some back issues and revisited a few favorites. Our 2022 poetry nominees are:
worthy to be sung by Levi Bentley
Ballet Is Never Enough by Lynda V. E. Crawford
Panacea by Jacob Fowler
.233 Remington by luna rey hall
Unrequited by Stephanie Kaylor
Stasha by Stella Reed
Congratulations to our nominees! For our readers, we hope you will take a few extra moments to dive or reimmerse yourself into these wonderful works.