The Gravity of the Thing’s editors are pleased to share our nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net anthology, the 2023 Best Microfiction anthology, the 2023 Best Small Fictions anthology, the 2023 Best American anthologies, the 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and the 2024 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”
- Joshua James Amberson’s “Contact: A Catalog”
- Agata Antonow’s “3 Recipes for Cabbage from My Grandmother”
- Adria Bernardi’s “Armoire”
- Ellie Cheng’s “A Time After Fireflies”
- Joanna Cleary’s “On Waiting”
- Ashley Deng’s “Conquest, as Seen by the City”
- Michelle Bonczek Evory’s “5 of 25 Extinct Species Named in 2021”
- Liliya Gazizova’s “Don’t Sleep!”, translated by Olga Karasik
- Janis Butler Holm’s “Sound Poems: Boys and Girls”
- Beth Kephart’s “Love in the Knots of the Coptic Stitch”
- Deepanshi Matai’s “A Reverie Through Stone”
- Peg Alford Pursell’s “Parasol”
- Daniel Solomon’s “Put the Pigeon in the Road”
- Kaitlin Stone’s “Bear It”
- David Stromberg’s “Abstract Writing” and “Eyeless”
- Janna Urschel’s “Communicability”
- Cameron Walker’s “The Rattlers”
To learn more about The Gravity of the Thing’s featured writing, as well as works nominated in previous years, please click here to visit our Features column.