Nominations from Star 82 Review for works from 2023

Catching up on posting the nominations from 2023 now that all the issues are available, here is the list and the links (if nominated to more than one, only one link is shown). This is very hard as I love all the work I publish! What makes it even harder is that more and more I am getting wonderful work that defies categories. Thank you to each and every contributor for that and for all the prose and poetry and art. And good luck to the nominees!

Best Small Fictions (under 1000 words)

• The Magic at the Mountain by CLS Sandoval (11.2)
• Low Tide by Georgia Riordan (11.2)
• The Next Chapter by Rebecca Buller (11.1)
• Perhaps, After the Next Funeral…by Hibah Shabhez (11.1)
• Toast by Desiree Kannel (11.3)

Best Microfiction (400 or fewer words)

• Deep Sea by Phoebe Shaw (11.4)
• Toast by Desiree Kannel (11.3)
• The Lost and Found by Peter Cherches (11.1)
• The Line by Marc Isaac Potter (11.4)
• Mostar Host by Michelle Matthees (11.3)

Pushcart Prize (any length)

• Our Last Summer at Santa Cruz by Deepti Nalavade Mahule (11.1)
• Wishing in July by Veronica Ashenhurst (11.4)
• After the Divorce by Ashley Kim (11.3)
• Mostar Host by Michelle Matthees (11.3)
• Toast by Desiree Kannel (11.3)
• What Good Is Freedom Without Joy? by Ace Boggess (11.2)

Best American Essays

• Robotic Bees Don't Say Ope by Kasey Butcher Santana (11.3)
• After the Divorce by Ashley Kim (11.3)
• The Atrium by Austin Thornton (11.2)
• Our Last Summer at Santa Cruz by Deepti Nalavade Mahule (11.1)
• Luku 1987 by Siete Lin (11.1)

Best American Short Stories

• Toast by Desiree Kannel (11.3)
• The Magic at the Mountain by CLS Sandoval (11.2)
• Low Tide by Georgia Riordan (11.2)

Note: This is the last year I'm nominating to anything except, perhaps, Pushcart. No worries! The magazine continues.