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 Dee...

Here are the six nominations for the Pushcart Prize from Star 82 Review issues published in 2022. Good luck! There is always so much good work from which to choose. Contributors, nominated or not, I love you all. Keep writing! 10.1 Child in Need of Services by Amanda Skofstad 10.2 Bambooza by Jennifer Lai In My Desk by Shira Musicant 10.3 Chrysalises by Amy Marques 10.4 Eggshell by Kathryn Ganfield Cautious Your Asks by Ranney Campbell

Here are the nominations from Star 82 Review for the Pushcart Prize 2021: Prose Territory by Victoria Lewis (9.2) Lodger by Frank X. Christmas (9.2) Outside Towner, North Dakota: Summer, 1958 by Charles D. Tarlton (9.3) Poetry Rain by M.C. Aster (9.1) Morning Snow by B. Dixon (9.4) *age *ist by Vanessa Couto Johnson (9.4) Good luck to the nominees!  And to all the contributors, thank you for your wonderful work and please know that I love you all.

These are the six nominations from the 2020 year: from issues 8.1 - 8.4. It is always a difficult decision. Even if you were not nominated, you and your work are still loved! Fish Kills by Emily Weber in 8.2 Side Oculus by Rachel Prizant Kotok in 8.3 Hannah by Ricky Ray in 8.4 When Trapped by Christian Hanz Lozada in 8.3 Theology Lesson on a Country Road by Kathleen Wedl in 8.3 Making Up by Trivarna Hariharan in 8.3 Print copies of 8.2 are here . Print copies of 8.3 are here . Print copies of 8.4 are here .

It's great for writers to have so many awards to be nominated to, but that means lots of difficult choices for the editors. Once again, here are the six Pushcart Prize Nominations from Star 82 Review , this time for works published in the year 2019. And again, even if you were not nominated, please know that your work is loved and appreciated! Good luck to all. Poetry Borders and Boundaries by Carol Dorf  (7.2) Gardening by Sarah Shapiro  (7.2) Why We Sing by Oak Morse  (7.3) pi- stash -ee-oh, -stah -shee-oh by Seth Grindstaff  (7.4) Prose Crescent Moon Autobiography by Alia Hussain Vancrown  (7.2) Still Dogwood by Carmen Gordon-Rein  (7.3)