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Recent Award Nominations for our Authors

Jan 22, 2017

It’s nomination time again! We recently sent out nods for the annual Queens Ferry Press Best Small Fictions anthology. We also nominated for the Eric Hoffer Award and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

The nomination process is always difficult — we published so many amazing pieces in 2016 — but eventually we narrowed it down. We’re pleased to share our picks for this year, and we hope you’ll reread a few of these favorites (and check out other work from these authors).

Best Small Fictions anthology nominations:

Ashley Hutson, for “The Hen of God,” published in The Conium Review Online Compendium (online).
Matt Tompkins, for “Souvenirs,” published in Souvenirs and Other Stories (print).
Jessica Roeder, for “Birth,” published in The Conium Review: Vol. 5 (print)
Shane Jones, for “Gazebo,” published The Conium Review: Vol. 5 (print)
Jasmine Sawers, for “Tiny Little Goat,” published in The Conium Review: Vol. 5 (print).

Eric Hoffer Book Award nominations:

Souvenirs and Other Stories, by Matt Tompkins.
Girl & Flame, by Melissa Reddish.

Independent Publisher Book Award nomination:

Girl & Flame, by Melissa Reddish.

Our 2015 “Best of the Net” Nominees

Oct 4, 2015

We’ve submitted our 2015 nominations for the Sundress Publications anthology, Best of the Net. This year’s nominees are Benjamin Allocco’s “Spider“ and John Englehardt’s “This Is Great But You Don’t Need It.”

Benjamin Allocco lives and teaches in Upstate New York. His work has been published in The Fanzine, The Conium Review, Fiction Southeast, and Prick of the Spindle.

Follow him on Twitter @benjaminallocco.

John Englehardt has an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas. He won the 2014 Wabash Prize in Fiction, and his work has been published in Sycamore Review, The Stranger, The James Franco Review, The Monarch Review, and Monkeybicycle. Currently, he edits fiction for Pacifica Literary Review, and is a fellow at The Richard Hugo House in Seattle.

Naturally, this was a tough decision. There were many deserving pieces published on our site in the past year. In fact, we arrogantly think our whole damn website deserves anthologization or some sort of prize (we can provide a gold-medal-sized SASE upon request). Two other favorites that were heavily considered for nomination are Ingrid Jendrzejewski’s “The Box of Skinny Women“ and Jinny Koh’s “Fish Head.”

This Year’s Pushcart Prize Nominations

Dec 1, 2012

Our nominations for the Pushcart Prize are in the mail. Congratulations to this year’s nominees!

From the The Conium Review‘s Spring 2012 issue, the Pushcart nominees are:

“Nogoodfornothin’,” by Nick Sanford (fiction)
“Buy Your Own,” by Margarita Meklina (fiction)
“Dear Penthouse,” by Benjamin Schachtman (fiction)
“Earl Grey Moonlight,” by Ben Nardolilli (poetry)

And from our Fall 2012 issue, the nominees are:

“Inside/Man,” by Tigh Rickman (fiction)
“Sunrise in Honolulu,” by Kirby Wright (poetry)