The Gravity of the Thing’s editors are pleased to share our nominations for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Awards, the 2022 Best Microfiction anthology, the 2022 Best Small Fiction anthology, the 2022 Best American anthologies, and the 2023 Pushcart Prize. A very warm congratulations to our contributors! With these nominations, we hope to see your work read and enjoyed far and wide.
- John Aberdein’s “Atween the Wind an the Wa”
- Lucie Bonvalet’s “Septimus”
- Joshua Calladine-Jones’s “Four Konstrukce”
- Jacey de la Torre’s “Ability to Fit”
- Matthew Dettmer’s “I drove to west virginia when the weather was warm”
- Rosalind Goldsmith’s “Swing”
- Steve Jensen’s six-word story
- Deepanshi Matai’s “A Reverie Through Stone”
- Kara McMullen’s “Things Begin to Happen at a Faster Rate”
- Peg Alford Pursell’s “Parasol” and “Glass Bracelet”
- Ron Riekki’s “In”
- Emma Wilson-Kanamori’s “The Third Floor”
To read more of The Gravity of the Thing’s featured writing, as well as works nominated in previous years, please click here to visit our Features column.