As we close out the year and our reading period, we are reminicsing on our past year. With that, we want to give warm thanks to all of our authors and contributors—some amazing work has passed through our queues. We’d also like to celebrate and remind you of our latest nominations. Check out these works:
Pushcart Prize
“To the Loch Ness” by Cait Weiss Orcutt
“America Tries to Remove a Splinter” by Albert Abonado
“Morocho” by Yuly Restrepo
“Opyata” by A.A. Weiss
“House for Sale by Owner” by Scott Loring Sanders
“The Emergency of Poetry” by Mark Irwin
Best American Experimental
“House for Sale by Owner” by Scott Loring Sanders
Best New Poets
Albert Abonado for “America Tries to Remove a Splinter”
A.D. Lauren for “Hermeneutics of a 21-year-old’s Death”
New Stories from the Midwest
“For Rent” by Joe Baumann
“Nobody Knows How to Say Goodbye” by Richard Spilman
“Earl’s Shadow” by Brandon Timm
“The Snowstorm” by Shuly Xochitl Cawood
“Out of the Bronx” by Brad Felver
“The Safe Word” by Aaron Hamburger
“A Man of High Purpose” by Lawrence F. Farrar
These works were originally published in various issues of Zone 3, which you can purchase here.
