Since 2001, works appearing in BFR have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net (Sundress), and Best of the Web (Dzanc Books).

Nominations …

Pushcart Prize

2012

      Kathryn Stripling Byer – “Don’t” (Blue Collection 2, Summer 2012)
      Bob Carlton – “Great Disasters in the History of Flight” (July 2012)
      Nick Graziano – “Headless in a Hole” (Flash Special: New to Us, March 2012)
      Stephen Hastings-King – “15 Restatements of How Lovely You Are” (Flash Special, September 2012)
      Rita Quillen – “Tree Gothic” (Broadside #25, Winter 2012)
      Rebecca Seiferle – [I was listening] (Fall Quarterly 2012)

2011

      Christopher Allen – “The Shoes, the Girl and the Waves that Washed Them Away” (Flash Special 2011)
      Sheldon Lee Compton – “Coming By It Honest” (Winter Quarterly 2011)
      Rupert Fike – “Prideful Buddhist” (Broadside #23, Summer 2011)
      Julie Innis – “Fairground” (Glass Woman Special 2011)
      Pamela Johnson Parker – “In Ictu Oculi” (Winter Quarterly 2011)
      Bill Yarrow – “Son of Goya” (January 2011)

Best of the Net (Sundress Publications)

2012

Poetry:
      Rupert Fike – “Prideful Buddhist” (Broadside 23 Summer 2011)
      Robert Lietz – “Photograph 1919 (April 2012)
      Lee Passarella – “Liebestod” (Winter Quarterly 2012)
      Rita Quillen – “Tree Gothic” (Broadside 25, Winter 2012)
      Greg Rappleye – “Orfeu Negro” (Spring Quarterly 2012)
      Susan Terris – “Crosshatched” (Fall Quarterly 2011)

Fiction:
William C. Blome – “Horse” (Broadside 24, Fall 2011)
Nicolette Wong – “As Pleat” (Flash Special 2011)

2011

Poetry:
      Ann Neuser Lederer – “Egg of Filaments” (April 2011)
      Pamela Johnson Parker – “In Ictu Oculi” (Winter Quarterly 2011)
      James Robison – “For the Film New Orleans Mon Amour” (Broadside 19, Summer 2010)
      Marcus Speh – “Cahiers du Cinéma” (Fall 2010)
      Christine Swint – “The Red Knitting Woman” (Spring Quarterly 2011)
      Bill Yarrow – “Son of Goya” (January 2011)

Short Fictions:
Sheldon Lee Compton – “Coming By It Honest” (Winter Quarterly 2011)
Julie Innis – “Fairground” (Glass Woman Special 2011)

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Awards …

“In the Woods — A Shot — Fraught with Barking Dogs” by Arlene Ang
(Winter 2007, Featured)

Selected for the print anthology
Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years
(Snowvigate Press, 2008) / Kim Chinquee and Doug Martin, eds.

Finalists for Best of the Net …