Anthology Presence

Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
2022 – Special Mention – Stephanie Chang, “Lotus Flower Kingdom”
2021 – Inclusion – Dorianne Laux, “Midnight is a Beautiful Curse”
2021 – Special Mention – Derrick Austin, “In the Decadence of Silence”
2019 – Special Mention – Corey Van Landingham, “On the Theory of Descent”
2017 – Inclusion – Alex Dimitrov, “Cocaine”

Best American Poetry
2022 – Inclusion – D.A. Powell, “Elegy on Fire”
2020 – Inclusion – Ama Codjoe, “Becoming a Forest”
2018 – Inclusion – Nkosi Nkululeko, “Skin Deep”

Best American Essays
2021 – Notable – Elliot Connors, “Prone”

Best American Mystery & Suspense
2021 – Notable – David Naimon, “The Blind Experiment”

Best American Nonrequired Reading
2014 – Notable Selection – Z.Z. Boone, “The Buddy System” (Prose)
2014 – Notable Selection – Elizabeth Martin, “Too Small Yet” (Prose)

Best New Poets Anthology
2022 – Inclusion – Sarah Ghazal Ali, “Parable of Flies”
2022 – Inclusion – Jalen Eutsey, “West Perrine Park (The Big Park)”
2021 – Inclusion – Hannah Matheson, “Daniel Johnston”
2021 – Inclusion – Grace Wang, “Zodiac Year of the Lamb”
2020 – Inclusion – Imani Davis, “Everything Must Go”
2020 – Inclusion – Steven Espada Dawson, “Salvation Sonnet”
2020 – Inclusion – Paige Quiñones, “Aubade”
2020 – Inclusion – Courtney Faye Taylor, “Grief for the Horizontal World”
2018 – Inclusion – Destiny O. Birdsong, “ode to my body”
2018 – Inclusion – K-Ming Chang, “Conversion Therapy”
2018 – Inclusion – T.J. McLemore, “Desert Triptych”
2017 – Inclusion – Christina Im, “Meanwhile in America”
2016 – Inclusion – Moriah Cohen, “Snow Downgraded to Nuisance…”
2015 – Inclusion – Ian Burnette, “Harvests”

The Best of the Net Anthology
2022 – Inclusion – Stephanie Chang, “Lotus Flower Kingdom” (Poetry)
2022 – Inclusion – Kim Fu, “The Doll” (Ficton)
2022 – Inclusion – D. Nolan Jefferson, “Full Tilt” (Fiction)
2022 – Finalist – Enshia Li, “Watching The Voice of China with My Mother at Thirteen” (Nonfiction)
2022 – Inclusion – Adam Lupton, “OCD Portrait I” (Art)
2022 – Finalist – Veronika Vajdova, “Euphoria” (Art)
2021 – Inclusion – Caroline Zhang, “East to West” (Art)
2021 – Finalist – Yalie Kamara, “Besaydoo” (Poetry)
2021 – Finalist – Grace Wagner, “There is No Beauty in the Finest Cloth” (Art)
2020 – Inclusion – Sara Elkamel, “Buried at Sea” (Poetry)
2020 – Finalist – Derrick Austin, “In the Decadence of Silence” (Poetry)
2020 – Finalist – Noor Hindi, “American Beings” (Nonfiction)
2020 – Finalist – Emilia Phillips, “Poem About Death Beginning with a Humblebrag and Ending with a Shower Beer” (Poetry)
2019 – Inclusion – K-Ming Chang, “Letter to My Grandmother in Tsingtao” (Poetry)
2019 – Finalist – Naira Kuzmich, “The Bargain-Shopper” (Nonfiction)
2018 – Inclusion – Hayan Charara, “Apokaluptein” (Poetry)
2018 – Inclusion – Krys Malcolm Belc, “Check My ID” (Nonfiction)
2017 – Finalist – Kayleb Rae Candrilli, “This House is Obvious” (Nonfiction)
2016 – Inclusion – Jenny Xie, “Bone Meal” (Fiction)
2016 – Finalist – Fatimah Asghar, “Mother” (Poetry)
2015 – Finalist – Zach VandeZande, “Accord” (Fiction)
2014 – Inclusion – Madeleine Cravens, “Girls and Boys: Growing Up…” (Nonfiction)
2014 – Inclusion – Richie Hofmann, “Midwinter” (Poetry)

Poetry Daily
March 10, 2023 – Matthew Tuckner, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
October 8, 2022 – Rio Cortez, “Eden”
April 27, 2022 – Mark Kyungsoo Bias, “Space Music”
December 2, 2021 – Spencer Reece, “Old Lyme Rhyme”
May 14, 2021 – Ghinwa Jawhari, “tazahar”
December 20, 2020 – Sally Wen Mao, “Pleasure Garden”
November 21, 2020 – Yalie Kamara, “Besaydoo”
February 15, 2020 – Anthony Anaxagorou, “Washing Lines. & Windpipes”
December 26, 2019 – Moon Bo Young (trans. Hedgie Choi), “____________*”
September 29, 2019 – Ama Codjoe, “Father of the Empty Bowl”
April 5, 2019 – Rachel Mennies, “July 16, 2016”
January 9, 2019 – Kyle G. Dargan, “Separating”
December 21, 2018 – K-Ming Chang, “Letter from My Grandmother in Tsingtao”
April 6, 2016 – Sarah Rose Nordgren, “Kindling”

The Best Small Fictions Anthology
2021 – Inclusion – Kate Bernheimer, “Eagle Swallowing Girl”
2021 – Inclusion – John Elizabeth Stintzi, “Balthazar”
2021 – Inclusion – Jennifer Tseng, “Menemsha Hills Reservation”
2020 – Inclusion – Angie Sijun Lou, “Drown”
2019 – Inclusion – Aimee Parkison, “As Petals Fall On Asphalt Roads”
2019 – Inclusion – Joanna Pearson, “Tiny House”
2019 – Inclusion – Aysegul Savas, “The Wardrobe”
2017 – Inclusion – Allegra Hyde, “Lowry Hill”
2017 – Inclusion – Alex McElroy, “A Man and a Man”

Wigleaf: The Top 50 Very Short Fictions Anthology
2021 – Longlist – Kate Bernheimer, “Eagle Swallowing Girl”
2021 – Longlist – Jennifer Tseng, “Menemsha Hills Reservation”
2020 – Inclusion – Angie Sijun Lou, “Drown”
2020 – Longlist – William Todd Seabrook, “A Mailman Drinking a Milkshake”
2019 – Longlist – Joanna Pearson, “Tiny House”
2019 – Longlist – Aysegul Savas, “The Wardrobe”
2018 – Inclusion – Amanda Haag, “Emergency Garden”
2017 – Longlist – Sara Brody, “At the Santa Monica Pier”
2017 – Longlist – Barrett Warner, “Three Men and One Dead Animal”
2016 – Longlist – Meghan Tear Plummer, “The Trigger”
2015 – Longlist – Erin Entrada Kelly, “Josephine March Sighs With You”
2015 – Longlist – Mary Sheffield, “How to Keep Animals from Defecating…”

The Orison Anthology
2020 – Inclusion – Ama Codjoe, “Father of the Empty Bowl”
2019 – Inclusion – Rachel Mennies, “July 16, 2016”
2017 – Inclusion – Chelsea Dingman, “Morning Benedictions with Dead Baby Syndrome”
2015 – Inclusion – Jenny Molberg, “Echolocation”

Bettering American Poetry
2018 – Inclusion – Maggie Smith, “Slipper”

Verse Daily
February 6, 2023 – Kwame Dawes, Issue Forty-Four (Web Weekly Series)
October 31, 2022 – Marianne Chan, Issue Forty-Three (Web Weekly Series)
August 29, 2022 – Eliza Gilbert, Issue Forty-Two (Web Weekly Series)
May 2, 2022 – Alison Thumel, Issue Forty-One (Web Weekly Series)
February 7, 2022 – January Gill O’Neil, Issue Forty (Web Weekly Series)
November 15, 2021 – Anthony Okpunor, Issue Thirty-Nine (Web Weekly Series)
September 13, 2021 – Mark Doty, Issue Thirty-Eight (Web Weekly Series)
May 3, 2021 – Maya C. Popa, Issue Thirty-Seven (Web Weekly Series)
February 1, 2021 – D. A. Powell, Issue Thirty-Six (Web Weekly Series)
November 9, 2020 – Jessica Fischoff, Issue Thirty-Five (Web Weekly Series)
September 21, 2020 – Dorianne Laux, Issue Thirty-Four (Web Weekly Series)
August 24, 2020 – Paul Guest, Issue Thirty-One (Web Weekly Series)
May 25, 2020 – Arthur Sze, Issue Thirty-Three (Web Weekly Series)
March 30, 2020 – Peter Streckfus, Issue Thirty-Two (Web Weekly Series)
February 3, 2020 – Victoria Chang, Issue Thirty-One (Web Weekly Series)
January 30, 2020 – Brandon Amico, Issue Fourteen
November 4, 2019 – Oliver de la Paz, Issue Thirty (Web Weekly Series)
March 25, 2019 – Lisa Russ Spaar, Issue Twenty-Eight (Web Weekly Series)
September 10, 2018 – Jericho Brown, Issue Twenty-Six (Web Weekly Series)
May 22, 2018 – Kai Carlson-Wee, Issue Sixteen
January 29, 2018 – D. A. Powell, Issue Twenty-Four (Web Weekly Series)
October 6, 2017 – Matthew Minicucci, Issue Twelve
August 7, 2017 – William Evans, Issue Twenty-One (Web Weekly Series)
June 13, 2016 – Catherine Pierce, Issue Sixteen (Web Weekly Series)
January 11, 2016 – Diana Khoi Nguyen, Issue Fourteen (Web Weekly Series)
July 6, 2015 – Joseph Fasano, Issue Twelve (Web Weekly Series)
June 1, 2015 – Diane Glancy, Issue Five
April 6, 2015 – Alexis Pope, Issue Eleven (Web Weekly Series)
January 19, 2015 – Brian Bender, Issue Ten (Web Weekly Series)
July 7, 2014 – Talin Tahajian, Issue Nine (Web Weekly Series)
March 3, 2014 – James Grinwis, Issue Eight (Web Weekly Series)
February 20, 2014 – Michael Tyrell, Issue Seven
February 19, 2014 – Matthew Rohrer, Issue Seven
February 18, 2014 – Rob Talbert, Issue Seven
February 17, 2014 – Shelley Whitaker, Issue Seven
October 27, 2013 – Tasha Cotter, Issue Four

The Best Microfictions Anthology
2021 – Inclusion – Pete Segall, “Fleas, Markets”
2020 – Inclusion – Sarah Rose Etter, “The Book of X: Vision #13 (Throat Fields)”

Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing Anthology
Contributions will be linked as they are added to the Plain China website.

Poetry:
2022 – Matilda Lin Berke, “En Plein Air”
2022 – Stephanie Chang, “Lotus Flower Kingdom”
2022 – Stephanie Chang, “The Sea Goddess, Mazu, Falls in Love”
2022 – Patricia Liu, “Watch Dog”
2022 – Zain Murdock, “Wall Street et al.”
2022 – Ngoc Pham, “How to Tell It’s Winter in Vietnamese”
2022 – Tariq Thompson, “On Our Birthday, Lorraine Hansberry & I Discuss Sunlight”
2021 – Stephanie Chang, “The Way to a Chinese Daughter’s Heart”
2021 – Helli Fang, “ABC Haibun”
2021 – Madeleine Pulman-Jones, “Precarious Weather”
2021 – Anu Vitasta, “National Holiday and a Parade”
2021 – Grace Wang, “Zodiac Year of the Lamb”
2020 – Imani Davis, “Everything Must Go”
2020 – Yujane Chen, “Matrimony/Matriarchy”
2020 – Aidan Forster, “PrEP Kabuki”
2020 – Grace Gilbert, “Haibun for womxn who are told to forgive”
2019 – K-Ming Chang, “Girl on Girl on Fire”
2018 – Rachel Cruea, “Nina Simone Tells Me What I Will Lose, Mainly You”
2017 – Alex Zhang, “Sugarcane”
2016 – Mehul Bhagat, “Reincarnation”
2016 – Blaike Marshall, “No More Young Mothers Smoking Cigarettes…”
2014 – Ian Burnette, “Harvests”
2014 – Talin Tahajian, “Farm Boys”
2013 – Canese Jarboe, “Lunar Sonnet”
2013 – Charles McCrory, “Three Months Sober”
2013 – Da’Shawn Mosley, “Boy”
2013 – Jacob Oet, “Hookey”
2013 – Amber Rambharose, “On the Nights My Lover Dreams of Drowning”

Prose:
2021 – Coral Bello-Martinez, “A Dominicana’s Guide to Surviving a PWI”
2021 – Julia Bohm, “Memory Test”
2021 – K-Ming Chang, “Horseplay”
2021 – Sophie Paquette, “clean & pretty”
2020 – Jason Lalljee, “Kaieteur”
2018 – Charity Young, “Sabratha”
2017 – Polina Solovyeva, “Mokita”
2017 – Christina Sun, “The Nudist on Pine Street”
2015 – Rachael Allen, “Chicken Marsala with Hawaiian Black Lava Sea Salt…”
2015 – Jackson Burgess, “Haunt”
2014 – Madeleine Cravens, “Girls and Boys: Growing Up in Four Parts”
2014 – Catherine Mosier-Mills, “The Practical Applications of Calculus”
2013 – Lily Fishman, “The Beach”
2013 – Elizabeth Martin, “Too Small Yet”

Art:
2019 – Brian Oldham, “from Eternity”
2017 – Qintong Li, “Overloading”
2017 – Ekta Suri, “Sterile”
2016 – Erin Lee, “H2O”
2016 – Erin Lee, “Lost Time”
2014 – Madeline Rile Smith, “Chimera”
2013 – Lathan Vargason, “Map“