Each year, Flash the Court will endeavor to nominate as many pieces as possible to the various venues who seek anthology nominations. Find the ongoing list below:
2026 Nominations
Best of the Net
“Tar Pits” by Meg Pokrass
“on the brink” by Carolyn R. Russell
Pushcart Prize
“Mrs. Luzajic as Hebe” by Lorette C. Luzajic
“Bullet List for My Aged Kidnapper” by Patricia Q. Bidar
“Family Medical History” by Maggie Russell
“What It Takes, What It Gives” by Cheryl Pappas
“Adrift” by Tracie Adams
“Farmed Out” by Katrina Irene Gould
Best Microfiction
“Then Came Funboy” by Sam Berman
“Tufts” by Miriam Mandel Levi
“House Rules” by Jeff Harvey
“Naked Babies” by Julia Strayer
“It Was the First Day of Fall When the Sumo Left the Dohyō…” by Mathieu Cailler
Best American Short Stories
“After the Movies” by Susan P. Morehouse
“Attica Forke” by Philip Dean Walker
“In bed” by JR Walsh
“Sherry’s Migraine Drops By Unannounced” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
“Average French Bread with Two Eggs on the Plate without the Plate, on Horseback, Attempting to Sodomize a Crumb of Portuguese Bread” by Mikki Aronoff
“Roll Call” by Barbara Krasner
“The Day It Rained Stone” by Kathryn Kulpa
“The Lilacs Even the Purple Ones” by David Guiotto
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
“Inconclusive” by Jack Smiles
Best Small Fictions
“Fifteen Shades of Pink” by Christine H. Chen
“Brief Lives of Garden Insects” by Frances Gapper
“Ladies Prefer Blonds: Fragments of an Undoing” by Ali McKenzie-Murdoch
“Self/Other” by Gargi Mehra
“Beard” by Eric Machan Howd
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