Nominations & Awards

 

Nominees for the 2016 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):

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Nominees for the 2016 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):

Nominees for the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):

• poem – Leonard Neufeldt, “Letters from the Ghetto”, Summer 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/leonard-neufeldt/
• poem – Rage Hezekiah, “February Cove”, Summer 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/rage-hezekiah/
• poem – M. L. Brown, “When Girls Swim”, Summer 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/m-l-brown/
• poem – Erin Redfern, “Graduate School”. Spring 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/erin-redfern-2/
• poem – Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, “The Space Between the Rain”, Fall 2015, http://bluelyrareview.com/tammy-ho-lai-ming/
• poem - Karen McPherson translating Louise Dupre, “Stone Hands of the Tomb Figures”, Fall 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/louise-dupre/
• essay - Steven Wineman, “Tear-Water-Tea,” Spring 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/steven-wineman/
• essay - Susan Bloch, “The Mumbai Massacre,” Spring 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/susan-bloch/
• story – Sherrie Flick, “Now”, Fall 2015, http://bluelyrareview.com/sherrie-flick/
• story – Meg Tuite, “Hollow Gestures”, Summer 2016, http://bluelyrareview.com/meg-tuite/

Nominees for the 2015 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):

• Sherrie Flick “Now” (fiction)
• Sharon Goldberg “Let Us (not) Pray” (essay)
• Jeff Hardin “A Short Distance from Mountains” (poetry)
• Lola Haskins translates Charles Baudelaire’s “Clock” (translations)
• Grace Mattern “Granite” (essay)
• Karen McPherson translates Louise Dupré’s “Stone Hands of the Tomb Figures” (translation)

Nominees for the 2015 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):

With apologies, but due to family illness, we were unable to submit any poets by the April 1st deadline.

Nominees for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):

• Rahad Abir “Johnson Road” (story)
• Anthony Frame “Everything I Learned I Learned from Kermit the Frog” (poem)
• Danusha Goska “Star Tattoo” (essay)
• Hafez “Ghazal 6” - translated by Roger Sedarat (poem)
• Debora Kuan “Teen Ghost” (poem)
• Grace Mattern: “Granite” (essay)
• Erin Redfern “Photograph of a Drugged Giraffe” (poem)
  

Nominees for the 2014 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):

• Aaron Bauer “Unnamed Woman-State Hospital, Michigan” (poem)
  
• Ellen Brooks “Dayenu” (essay)
• Susan Knox “Autumn’s Life” (essay)
• Lori Lamothe “Intersection with Edward Hopper” (poem)
• Cyril Wong “Hotel” (poem)

Nominees for 2014 Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Katherine Bell “The Sulphur Sink“
• James Chaarani “White“
• Bernard Grant “The Child“

Nominees for the 2014 Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Ellen Brooks “Dayennu” **(notable essay)**
• Susan Knox “Autumn Life“
• Patricia Canright Smith “Me & The Toad”

Nominees for the 2014 Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Kurt Caswell “Haboob“
  

Nominees for the 2014 Best New Poets Anthology (University of Virginia Press):

• Berdjouhi Esmerian “Frog Legs” (essay)
• Patricia Canright Smith “Me & Toad” (essay)
• Julie Brooks Barbour “No Destination” (poem)
• Lucille Lang Day “Rituals” (poem)
• Ruth Foley “Consolation” (poem)
• Lee Slonimsky “Pythagora’s Bees” (poem)
• Philip Terman “Teaching my Daughter the Mourner’s Kaddish” (poem) **(finalist, Poetry)**
  
• Kim Myung Won (translated by EJ Koh) “On the Road” (poem)
• Sara Henning “A New Year” (story)
• Sarah Seltzer “Disorder” (story)

 

Nominees for 2013 Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Tiff Holland “Hungry“
• Kirby Wright “Burt and the Christmas Tree”

Nominees for the 2013 Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Debra Fox “He Doesn’t“
• Carla Sarett “Sam’s Will“

Nominees for the 2013 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press):

• Linda Pastan “Like a Bird”
• Goethe “Third Roman Elegy” (poem translated by Brett Ortler)
• Matthew Lippman “In the Basement of the Holy House” (poem) **(finalist, Poetry)**
• Maria Teresa Ogliastri “Alfafa Sprouts” (poem translated by Yvette Meisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher)
• Esther Altshul Helfgott “Pantoum for Uncle Izzy” (poem)
• Myra Sklarew “Stolpersteine” (essay)
• Suzanne Cope “Gardening Language” (essay)
• Gary Presley “Knife” (story)
• Abbigail Rosewood “The Ones We Keep” (story)
• Kirby Wright “Burt & the Christmas Tree” (story)

Nominees for the 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):

• Karen Donley-Hayes “Hens on a Porch” (essay)
• Philip Terman “Teaching my Daughter the Mourner’s Kaddish” (poem)
• Chantal Bizzini “Bloom” (poem translated by Marilyn Kallet)
• Abbigail N Rosewood “The Ones We Keep” (story)
• Enid Shomer “Small” (essay)
• Elaine Starkman “At the Russian Circus, Sochi on the Black Sea, 1990” (poem)
  

Nominees for the 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing Anthology (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Neil Mathison “My Redwoods”

Nominees for the 2012 Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):

• Linda Voss “Heavenly Messengers“
• Neil Mathison “Wooden Boats” **(received Best Notable Essay in Best American Essays)**

Nominees for the 2012 Pushcart Prize Anthology (W.W. Norton):

• Terry Persun “Hard Driver” (essay)
• John A McDermott “The Hole in Orion’s Belt” (story)
• William Reichard “A Trip Down Market Street” (poem)
• John Wood “In the Face of the Electron” (poem)
• Neil Mathison “Wooden Boat” (essay)
• Nancy Naomi Carlson “Ant Hills” (poem)

Nominees for the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Publications)

• Terry Persun “Hard Driver” (essay)
• Neil Mathison “My Redwoods” (essay)
• Marge Piercy “Bang, Crash Over” (poem)
• Lyn Lifshin “Bad Dream #279, June 22” (poem)
• John Wood “In the Face of the Electron” (poem)
• Jeff Friedman “Old Bird” (poem)
• Nancy Naomi Carlson “If You Build It” (poem)