Baltimore Review 2023 Prize Nominations
by Barbara Westwood Diehl
Baltimore Review 2023 Nominations:
The Best Short Stories of the Year: The O. Henry Prize Winners
July 1, 2022 – July 1, 2023
“You Wish This Were a Novel,” Matt Barrett
“Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew,” Abigail Oswald
“The Stirling Stone,” Frank Reilly
“The Scrape,” Kirk Vanderbeek
Best of the Net
Work published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023
“Mezuzahs,” Jared Beloff
“Moose Prayer,” Kael Knight
“Envy,” Lance Larsen
“Alone at Passing Period,” Karis Lee
“Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew,” Abigail Oswald
“Erosion and the Laetoli Footprints,” Susan Blackwell Ramsey
“Bad Apple,” Lucy Zhang
“What I Remember,” Alison Zheng
“White Rabbit,” Huina Zheng
“There are so many levels called darkness,” Jane Zwart
Best Small Fictions
Work under 1,000 words published in 2023
“Daps for the Dead,” Sacha Bissonnette
“Sidewalks,” Robin Littell
“Seventeen,” Joshua Jones Lofflin
“Scorpion Season,” Cressida Blake Roe
“Ars Poetica,” Kelly Weber
Pushcart Prize
Work published in 2023
“They Look Like Me,” Kayo Chang Black
“The Home Front, 1992,” Sheila Black
“Oxygen,” Brendan Constantine
“Thiohnaka (Home),” Jim Genia
“Laugh Machine,” Katherine Tunning
“There are so many levels called darkness,” Jane Zwart
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Wishing all the best for the wonderful writers published in the past year’s issues!