2025 Best of Net Nominations
Virginia Boudreau's nonfiction: "Green Dory"
Jayne Marek's prose poem: "Mountain Ibex"
Michelle Nicolaysen's nonfiction: "All That We Don't Control"
Mandira Pattnaik's fiction: "What do I tell you, Sundarban Bagh"
Sarah Seidel's prose poem: "Were there years enough"
Juanita Smart's prose poem: "When I ignite into the clearing"
Virginia Boudreau's nonfiction: "Green Dory"
Jayne Marek's prose poem: "Mountain Ibex"
Michelle Nicolaysen's nonfiction: "All That We Don't Control"
Mandira Pattnaik's fiction: "What do I tell you, Sundarban Bagh"
Sarah Seidel's prose poem: "Were there years enough"
Juanita Smart's prose poem: "When I ignite into the clearing"
2024 Best of Net Nominations
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Kayla Jessop - "Mother of None" (creative nonfiction)
Amy Karon's "Sunday fishing" (prose poetry)
Natalie Marino's "Epilogue" (prose poetry)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Jan Price's "Forgiving" (cover art)
Laura Ruby - "Guide Book: Your Visit to the Sedlec Ossuary" (free verse)
Ellen June Wright - "Unmarked Grave c. 1630" (free verse poem)
Maggie Yang - "Cartography" (free verse poem)
2023 Best of Net Nominations
Eli Coyle - "After the Beat Museum in San Francisco" (prose poetry)
Melissa Darcey - "A Toga, A Dress, A Cardigan" (creative nonfiction)
Anne Gudger - "How to Prepare for Widowed" (creative nonfiction)
Jeffrey Haskey-Valerius - "Quiet Catastrophes" (prose poetry)
Kara Knickerbocker - "[I should have always stayed flying. I should have never stopped writing]" (prose poetry)
Jeremy Marks - "My daughter reads" (prose poetry)
Daniel Edward Moore - "Genesis 22:12" (prose poetry)
Lucinda Trew - "Rust" (prose poetry)
2020 Best of Net Nominations
Eli Jacobs - "Counting Rabbis"
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Kingery - "Seventeen"
Zoe Johnson - "Distance, Social and Temporal; or March 2020 on Indian Time"
Ingrid Andersson - "The Wife Who Made a Wish" 2020 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
2019 Best American Essays Nominations
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Cassie Van Domelen - "Liquid"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Emily Kingery - "Seventeen"
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Cassie Van Domelen - "Liquid"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
2019 Best of Net Nominations
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
Amanda Moore - "Haibun in the Middle of the Night" 2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
Lisa Renee - "Neighbors"
Grace Yannotta - "The Dithyramb"
William Doreski - "To the Breadwinner"
Mileva Anastasiadou - "Love is a Warm Gun"
Hannah McSorley - "Rituals"
2018 Best Small Fictions Nominations
"The Testament of Pearl" by Charles Leipart - http://www.portyonderpress.com/charles-leipart---testament-of-pearl.html
"The One Before Woodstock" by Nancy Brewka-Clark - http://www.portyonderpress.com/nancy-clark---the-one-before-woodstock.html
"The Visitor" by Maureen Sherbondy - http://www.portyonderpress.com/maureen-sherbondy_the-visitor.html
"Old Highways" by Alex Pickens - http://www.portyonderpress.com/alex-pickens---the-old-highway.html
"Orbit" by Joe Baumann - http://www.portyonderpress.com/joe-baumann---orbit.html (Selected for inclusion)
2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Jane Hawley for "A Self Portrait of the Writer as Minerva Hamilton Hoyt"
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Mark Luebbers & Benjamin Goluboff for "Iris Tree Chooses a Role, 1913"
Biman Roy for "Of Moon and Washing Machine"
Katheryn Simpson for "On Memory and Forgetting"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine" - (Nominated by Pushcart Prize's Board of Contributing Editors to be considered for inclusion)
2018 Best American Essays Nominations
Jackie Sizemore - "Gaijin" - (Notable Essay inclusion)
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Katheryn Simpson for "On Memory and Forgetting"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine"
2018 Best of Net Nominations
Jane Hawley for "A Self Portrait of the Writer as Minerva Hamilton Hoyt"
KS Lack for "PASSOVER. KYIV. 1995"
Mercedes Lawry for "Where Strength Has Wriggled In"
Charles Leipart for "The Testament of Pearl"
Biman Roy for "Of Moon and Washing Machine"
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Ellen Stone for "Your Grandpa Was a Foxhunter"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine"
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Kayla Jessop - "Mother of None" (creative nonfiction)
Amy Karon's "Sunday fishing" (prose poetry)
Natalie Marino's "Epilogue" (prose poetry)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Jan Price's "Forgiving" (cover art)
Laura Ruby - "Guide Book: Your Visit to the Sedlec Ossuary" (free verse)
Ellen June Wright - "Unmarked Grave c. 1630" (free verse poem)
Maggie Yang - "Cartography" (free verse poem)
2023 Best of Net Nominations
Eli Coyle - "After the Beat Museum in San Francisco" (prose poetry)
Melissa Darcey - "A Toga, A Dress, A Cardigan" (creative nonfiction)
Anne Gudger - "How to Prepare for Widowed" (creative nonfiction)
Jeffrey Haskey-Valerius - "Quiet Catastrophes" (prose poetry)
Kara Knickerbocker - "[I should have always stayed flying. I should have never stopped writing]" (prose poetry)
Jeremy Marks - "My daughter reads" (prose poetry)
Daniel Edward Moore - "Genesis 22:12" (prose poetry)
Lucinda Trew - "Rust" (prose poetry)
2020 Best of Net Nominations
Eli Jacobs - "Counting Rabbis"
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Kingery - "Seventeen"
Zoe Johnson - "Distance, Social and Temporal; or March 2020 on Indian Time"
Ingrid Andersson - "The Wife Who Made a Wish" 2020 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
2019 Best American Essays Nominations
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Cassie Van Domelen - "Liquid"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Emily Kingery - "Seventeen"
Laurel Miram - "The Oldest Spider"
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Cassie Van Domelen - "Liquid"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
2019 Best of Net Nominations
Emily Townsend - "The Daughter's Dictionary"
Anna Wagner - "Brush Your Teeth"
Amanda Moore - "Haibun in the Middle of the Night" 2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner
Lisa Renee - "Neighbors"
Grace Yannotta - "The Dithyramb"
William Doreski - "To the Breadwinner"
Mileva Anastasiadou - "Love is a Warm Gun"
Hannah McSorley - "Rituals"
2018 Best Small Fictions Nominations
"The Testament of Pearl" by Charles Leipart - http://www.portyonderpress.com/charles-leipart---testament-of-pearl.html
"The One Before Woodstock" by Nancy Brewka-Clark - http://www.portyonderpress.com/nancy-clark---the-one-before-woodstock.html
"The Visitor" by Maureen Sherbondy - http://www.portyonderpress.com/maureen-sherbondy_the-visitor.html
"Old Highways" by Alex Pickens - http://www.portyonderpress.com/alex-pickens---the-old-highway.html
"Orbit" by Joe Baumann - http://www.portyonderpress.com/joe-baumann---orbit.html (Selected for inclusion)
2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Jane Hawley for "A Self Portrait of the Writer as Minerva Hamilton Hoyt"
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Mark Luebbers & Benjamin Goluboff for "Iris Tree Chooses a Role, 1913"
Biman Roy for "Of Moon and Washing Machine"
Katheryn Simpson for "On Memory and Forgetting"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine" - (Nominated by Pushcart Prize's Board of Contributing Editors to be considered for inclusion)
2018 Best American Essays Nominations
Jackie Sizemore - "Gaijin" - (Notable Essay inclusion)
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Katheryn Simpson for "On Memory and Forgetting"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine"
2018 Best of Net Nominations
Jane Hawley for "A Self Portrait of the Writer as Minerva Hamilton Hoyt"
KS Lack for "PASSOVER. KYIV. 1995"
Mercedes Lawry for "Where Strength Has Wriggled In"
Charles Leipart for "The Testament of Pearl"
Biman Roy for "Of Moon and Washing Machine"
Claire T. Jennings for "In the Hollow of a Mother"
Ellen Stone for "Your Grandpa Was a Foxhunter"
Holly Willis for "Never in the Feminine"
Eastern Iowa Review's Editor's Choice Lyric Essay Award (2018)
The prize for excellence in the art of the lyric essay / prose poem. $100 will be awarded to one lyric essay or prose poem contributor who has entered the contest. 2nd and 3rd place winners may also be chosen and awarded a small honorarium.
1st place: Eanlai Cronin's "Written in Stone" (lyric essay)
2nd place: Robert Miltner's "Narrow Roads North: Nine Haibun" (prose poetry)
3rd place: A. M. Thompson's "Greta, Gardening" (prose poetry)
Honorable Mention: Biman Roy's "Of Moon and Washing Machine" (prose poetry)
The prize for excellence in the art of the lyric essay / prose poem. $100 will be awarded to one lyric essay or prose poem contributor who has entered the contest. 2nd and 3rd place winners may also be chosen and awarded a small honorarium.
1st place: Eanlai Cronin's "Written in Stone" (lyric essay)
2nd place: Robert Miltner's "Narrow Roads North: Nine Haibun" (prose poetry)
3rd place: A. M. Thompson's "Greta, Gardening" (prose poetry)
Honorable Mention: Biman Roy's "Of Moon and Washing Machine" (prose poetry)
Our New Christine Prose Poetry Award for 2018
A first place award of $100 will be given to the author we feel has submitted a prose poem (no entry fee necessary) that best represents the prose poetry form. A 2nd and 3rd place winner may also be chosen and awarded a small honorarium.
1st place: Mercedes Lawry's "Where Strength Has Wriggled In"
2nd place: Amy Karon's "Arizona Drought"
3rd place: Travis Truax's "Driving Back"
Honorable Mention: Jesse Holth's "Piñon Crackles"
Honorable Mention: Ellen Stone's "Your Grandpa Was a Foxhunter"
A first place award of $100 will be given to the author we feel has submitted a prose poem (no entry fee necessary) that best represents the prose poetry form. A 2nd and 3rd place winner may also be chosen and awarded a small honorarium.
1st place: Mercedes Lawry's "Where Strength Has Wriggled In"
2nd place: Amy Karon's "Arizona Drought"
3rd place: Travis Truax's "Driving Back"
Honorable Mention: Jesse Holth's "Piñon Crackles"
Honorable Mention: Ellen Stone's "Your Grandpa Was a Foxhunter"
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2017 Award Winners
SmartApocalypse Issue 5 Editor's Choice Award Arthur Doweyko for cover art "Remember Me" & Daniel Link for fiction "Outside the Fire" EIR Issue 3 Longform Lyric Essay Award Gregory Ormson for "Midwest Intimations" Honorable Mention Paula Marafino Bernett for "The Smallest Leaning Begins ..." EIR Issue 3 Odd Story Award Winner Kyle Owens for "Testament" * * * 2016 Award Winners EIR Lyric Essay Award First Place (tie) Raphael Kosek for "Meditations on the Common Life" Carole Giangrande for "Goshawk" Finalists Laura Bernstein-Machlay for "Dirty Cities" Jennifer Knight for "Life Code" Honorable Mention Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb for "The Address Book: A Psychological Analysis" Alisa Golden for "Switchbacks" EIR Experimental Essay Award First Place (tie) Ashley Kunsa for "How to Write Your Life in the Second-Person" Myron Michael for "Word on the Street (B-Side Epistle)" Finalists Robert Kirvel for "BioYou" Sarah Weaver for "This Same Place" EIR Poetry Award First Place: Jennifer Weber for "Wander-Wonder" Second Place: Jenny Lara for "Last One to the Sea" Third Place: Jenna Pashley for "Cabin Girl" Honorable Mention Janet Smith for "Invocation" & "Owl" Lana Bella for "She Who Awaits" Judges: EIR editors & readers * * * 2015 Poetry Award Winners First Place: Sonja Johanson for "Vrikshasana" Second Place: Ellaraine Lockie for "In the Beginning There Was" Third Place: Amy Brunvand for "Grand Canyon" Honorable Mentions: Elisabeth Murawski, Emily Allen, Kathleen Spivack, Susanna Lang, Michael Collins, Sally Zakariya, Rage Hezekiah Judge: Marianne Taylor, MA (PhD coursework), Professor of English, Kirkwood College, Iowa * * * 2014 Poetry Award Winners First Place: Marian Kaplun Shapiro for "Drowning Without Water" Second Place: Sharon Fedor for "#1 After Emily Dickinson" Honorable Mentions: Sonja Johanson, Neil Carpathios, Lois Marie Harrod, Neil P. Brothers, Laura D. Weeks, Julie Wenglinski, Claire Keyes, Jennifer Hu, Cassandra Labairon, Teddy Norris Judge: Dr. Ann Struthers, PhD Univ. of Iowa |
2017 Pushcart Nominees
William Diamond for "The End of the World. Not." Issue 5 Cindy Lamothe for "You Will Have a Son" Issue 3 Andrea Marcusa for "Boulevard Mohamed Bouazizi*; Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia, 2016" Issue 3 Luisa Kay Reyes for "My Border Crossing" Issue 4 Alan Steinberg for "My Father's Fiftieth Birthday" Issue 3 A J Tanek for "Counting Happy" Issue 4 |
