Congratulations to our 2024 Award Nominees!

Congratulations to the following authors whose flash have been nominated by The Write-In for the following awards:

Pushcart Prize

    • A Gift by Heain Joung
    • Bioluminescence by Barbara Renel
    • Pirouette by Uju Obi
    • Robert Burns and Me by Rachel Burrows
    • Standardized Psychological Post-Quarrantine Survey Sb-53 by Chris Albin
    • The Last Day on Earth by Cheryl Markosky

Best Small Fictions

• Rewilding by Rosaleen Lynch  
• Robert Burns and Me by Rachel Burrows
• Sounds of Thank You by Karen Walker
• The Last Day on Earth by Cheryl Markosky
• Woman, Resplendent by Julia Ruth Smith

Best of the Net

• A million tiny cuts by Lucy Brighton
• Come on in, the water’s radioactive by Madeleine Armstrong
  
• Nanna’s Perfect Parkin by Donna M Day
  
• Pieces of Sky by Ali McGrane 
• Rewilding by Rosaleen Lynch
  
• Should Have Taken Ordinary Level by Geraldine McCarthy 
• Take a Bite by Melissa Flores Anderson
  
• Woman, Resplendent by Julia Ruth Smith
  

2023 Best Small Fictions Nominations

 

Every year we are more and more impressed with the quality of submissions and the wide variety of stories that come through our queue -- no mean feat when authors only have a weekend to write, polish and submit their work.  This year, we've decided to start nominating work for awards.  It's a nice chance for us to honour some of our authors, and with luck, introduce some of our Write-In stories to wider audiences.

Congratulations to the following stories and authors, whom we've nominated for this year's Best Small Fictions:

• 'Between the Lines' by Shareen K. Murayama
• 'Eating like a sanskaari girl' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar 
• 'Nobody Dies at the End' by Martha Lane
• 'Pasta Three Ways' by Sumitra Singam
  
• 'To Have Him Back. Back, Back and Back' by Mairead Robinson

2023 Best Microfictions Nominations

Every year we are more and more impressed with the quality of submissions and the wide variety of stories that come through our queue -- no mean feat when authors only have a weekend to write, polish and submit their work.  This year, we've decided to start nominating work for awards.  It's a nice chance for us to honour some of our authors, and with luck, introduce some of our Write-In stories to wider audiences.

Congratulations to the following stories and authors, whom we've nominated for this year's Best Microfictions anthology:

• 'The Fluke' by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
  
• 'Palette' by Wendy Newbury
  
• 'She’s on Her Own With The Kids All Day and He’s Called to Say He’ll Be Late Home (Again!)' by Mairead Robinson
  
• 'Third Eye, A Concert Played Backward in Time' by Erin Vachon
  
• 'A Visitor to a Less Broken Time' by Leigh Loveday
  

2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Every year we are more and more impressed with the quality of submissions and the wide variety of stories that come through our queue -- no mean feat when authors only have a weekend to write, polish and submit their work.  This year, we've decided to start nominating work for awards.  It's a nice chance for us to honour some of our authors, and with luck, introduce some of our Write-In stories to wider audiences.

Our first nominations are in!  Congratulations to the following stories and authors, whom we've nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize:

• 'Between the Lines' by Shareen K. Murayama
• 'Eating like a sanskaari girl' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar 
• 'Inheritance: A story in pseudo programming language' by Elisa Rivera 
• 'Into the Woods' by Jackie Morris
• 'Nobody Dies at the End' by Martha Lane 
• 'To Have Him Back. Back, Back and Back' by Mairead Robinson