Literary Prizes Nominations 2024-25



Congratulations to these Still: The Journal contributors 
whose work was nominated for these annual prizes:



Best of the Net, 2025
Fiction:
Carli Moses, “Salamander”
        Robert L. Penick, “Punks”

Poetry:
        Mackenzie Berry, “Trust a Woman with Many Jars”
        Nicole Callihan, “My Mother’s Dog”
        Kai Coggin, “No Choice”
        Brandon Sun Eagle Jent, “Instructions for Surviving a One Thousand Year Flood”
        NitaJade, “Clairaudience”
        Ellen June Wright, “Early in My Visit, Mother Calls Me into the Bathroom”

Creative Nonfiction:
        Neema Avashia, “Motherhood, Anew”
        Christine Hale, “Wobble”

The Pushcart Prize, 2025 

Fiction:
        Melanie Haws, "Freshman"
        Tommy Hays, "Stolen"

Poetry:
        Mildred Kiconco Barya, "Old Bartimaeus, I Feel You"
        Shauna M. Morgan, "Arch"

Creative Nonfiction:
        Dianne Aprile, "Dutch Tilt"
        Vince Trimboli, "My Body the Mountain. My Body the Shovel"

Best Microfiction, 2025 (400 words or less)


Robin Lippincott, "The Road We Live On"
Best Small Fictions, 2025 (short hybrid and flash fiction, haibun, and prose poetry, up to 1,000 words )


Short Fiction:
        Joseph Bathanti, "Until Thyself - Beloved"

Prose Poems:
        Daniel Lassell, "The Day I Was Born"
        Liz Prather, "Young Girls Intent on Becoming"
        Amy Le Ann Richardson, "We Should Have Listened"






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