2025-26 Best Small Fictions nominees

For Black Lawrence Press’ combined 2025-2026 Best Small Fictions anthology, trampset is excited to announce the following nominees:

2025

Cutler Meade’s “Margaret Mulney and the New Faces”

Sage Tyrtle’s “Butterfly Time”

Benjamin Drevlow’s “The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire”

Joshua Jones Lofflin’s “Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman-Oil on Canvas 1668”

Joseph Randolph’s “Inventory before Prayer”

2026

Emily Rinkema’s “The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City”

Pravin Vemuri’s “Author Bio”

Thad DeVassie’s “Meat-flavored water”

Sarp Sozdinler’s “Which Starseed Are You?”