Best of the Net Nominations
2023
Fiction
“Abiquiu” by Zoe Boyer
“Mudpuppy Run” by John MacNeill Miller
Nonfiction
“Horse/Power” by Maura Kelly
“Escape to the Hive: Keeping Bees to Keep Myself” by Kasey Butcher Santana
Poetry
“The Secret to Getting the Ants Off the Peonies” by Caitlin Gildrien
“Plagues” by Melissa Jean
“My Arachnid Neighbor” by Elia Anie Kim
“Seeing with Fingers” by Jyothsna Phanija
“Vegetable X” by Anna Reeve
“black bear story” by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Visual
“Tension” by Jess Cherofsky
“Wingspan” by Carolyn Guinzio
“Relief Map” by Laura Rockhold
2022
Fiction
“Data That Chills” by Kenia D. Hale
“Beneath Her Breath” by Chelsey Waters
Nonfiction
“Hum” by Rebecca Ritter
“Cutting a Tree” by Elizabeth J. Wenger
Poetry
“someday your animal” by A. Henry Carnell
“the neighbourhood” by Samantha Martin-Bird
“Winter Coleus” by Xiaoly Li
“Spring Felling” by Renee Emerson
“Sound Fossil” by H. E. Fisher
“Stop, Don’t Stop” by Jessica Purdy
Visual
2021
Fiction
“Hunting with My Father” by Gabriela Halas
“Them Iguanas Are My Friends” by Shayla Smith
Nonfiction
“Just Feathers and Bones” by Stevie Belchak
“The Sea Has Many Names” by Róisín Á Costello
Poetry
“Gift of Ammonite” by Sarah Giragosian
“Kangkong | 空心菜” by Kendrick Loo
“The Rat Raft” by Aditya Pandya
“The Difference Between the Map and the Bird” by Marissa Paysinger
“Gift” by Tara K. Shepersky
“Cyclone #9” by Dorsía Smith Silva
Visual
“Walnutport, PA” by Rebecca Kanaskie
“Plantain Bark I” by Ana Martínez Orizondo
“Godrevy Seals” by Amber Rollinson
2020
Fiction
“Watercolors” by Jim O'Donnell
“Moon Sycamore” by Carolyn Oliver
Nonfiction
“The Year of Seeing Green” by Erin Despard
“Wading Toward Willamette” by Joseph Lezza
Poetry
“I become then” by Gabriela Halas
“I’ll name myself moss rock” by Robin Gow
“A Fishwife’s Song of Incredulous Burn” by Ravitte Kentwortz
“La Frontera” by Christian Woodard
“Swamp” translated by Andrew Adair (from "Ciénega" by Maricela Guerrero)
“Balk” by David Axelrod
2019
Fiction
“Monsoon Valediction” by Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho
“Signs of Sacred Places” by Caroline Misner
Nonfiction
“Ocean: An Autobiography” by H.E. Fisher
“Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient” by Isaac Yuen
Poetry
“Face, Circle, Abundant” by Lauren Camp
“Vis Inertiae” by Maximiliane Donicht
“On-Farm Research” by Jessica Gigot
“Surface Tension” by Caitlin Gildrien
“Measure My Song” by Rebecca Starks
“Shadows and warriors” by Jemma Borg
2018
Fiction
“Dodder” by Melissa Jean
“Tomato: Heirloom Manitoba” by Matthew Gigg
Nonfiction
“Yet Another Poem About Denver” by Ashia Ajani
“Reversals” by Stephen Black
Poetry
“These Horses Will Not Be Harnessed” by Amy Miller
“Another Night, Just” by Jack B. Bedell
“Midwestern Drive” by Heidi McKinley
“Rachel Carson at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1929” by Donelle Dreese
“Portrait of my Father as Icarus” by Lucien Meadows
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS
2020
Fiction
“Sanctuary” by Jyothi Vinod
Nonfiction
“Dragonfly, Secondhand” by Joanna Brichetto
“Reasons to Carry Bear Spray” by Sarah Capdeville
Poetry
“Swamp” by Maricela Guerrero & translated by Andrew Adair
“Us, Again in Arches” by Jai Hamid Bashir
“A Fishwife’s Song of Incredulous Burn” by Ravitte Kentwortz
2018
Fiction
“The Serpent” by Amy Weldon
Nonfiction
“What White Tree is Blooming Now” by Joanna Brichetto
“Traffic” by Mike Freeman
Poetry
“Face, Circle, Abundant” by Lauren Camp (nominated by The Pushcart Prize board of editors)
“The Fisherchild” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
“Laura Ingalls Wilder, Age 5, Considers the Causes of Exile and Migration” by Mark Luebbers
“Genesis According to Stone” by Brigit Truex