The Gravity of the Thing’s editors are excited to share our nominations for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards, the 2024 Best of the Net anthology, the 2024 Best Microfiction anthology, the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology, the 2024 Best American anthologies, and the 2025 Pushcart Prize. A very warm congratulations to our contributors! With these nominations, we hope to see your work read and enjoyed far and wide.
- Marguerite Alley’s “A Haunting”
- Amber Burke’s “Matter of Days”
- Emma Campbell’s “Beetles”
- Élyse Deering’s “She Is an Artist”
- Sirianna Helleloid’s “Parabola Is the Most Beautiful Word in the English Language”
- Ted Jean’s “Albany en Recto Verso”
- Beth Kephart’s “Love in the Knots of the Coptic Stitch”
- Emily O Liu’s “Notes on Being a Real Person”
- Lisa Marie Lopez’s six-word story
- Violet Piper’s “Twenty-Four, Candidly”
- Daniel Solomon’s “Put the Pigeon in the Road”
- A.T. Yano’s “Rent, Gold, and Chicxulub: A Core Sample of Our Deposits”
To learn more about The Gravity of the Thing’s featured writing, as well as read works nominated in previous years, please click here to visit our Features column.