The Florida Review is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology!
Congrats and good luck to all of our nominees!
Submissions for our annual Editor’s Prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry are open from now until April 15th! Each winner receives publication in The Florida Review and $1,000 upon publication. Entry fee of $25 includes a one-year subscription to The Florida Review.
You can find further guidelines and submit your work on our Submittable page.
The Florida Review is excited to announce our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations:
Fiction
“OWLS,” by Kathryn Campo Bowen
“In the 301,” by Matthew Neill Null
“Pool Season,” by Susan Perabo
Nonfiction
“Lost Uncle,” by Naomi Gordon-Loebl
Poetry
“Tongue Mother,” by Bertha Crombet
“The Bird,” by Morgan Hamill
Congrats and good luck to all our nominees!
Aquifer: The Florida Review Online is excited to announce our nominations for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net anthology, created by Sundress Publications, accepts pieces first published online in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. To read more about the Best of the Net anthology, check out their webpage.
Congratulations and good luck to the nominees!
Art
Modern Ancestors by Anne McGrath
Graphic Narrative
Soft Eyes by Robert James Russell
Standard Pest Control by Jake Goldwasser
Fiction
The Star Buyer by Will Musgrove
When There’s No One Left to Point At by Eric Scot Tryon
Nonfiction
On Love and Duty by Joyce Dehli
My Mother’s Museum by Mark Brazaitis
Poetry
Missing the Farm by Travis Mossotti
Captive by Nicole Santalucia
A Moment of Tenderness by Vincent Antonio Rendoni
I Wanna Be Wrong by Michael Chang
I Woke Up Eating Donuts in the Rain by Jarrett Moseley
From the Jeopardy! category SPOILER ALERTS by Julie Marie Wade
The Florida Review is open for submissions, and we want to read your work! Send us your short stories, poetry, essays, art, or graphic narratives.
Click here for submission guidelines and more information.
Submissions are now open for the 2024-2025 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, honoring the life of Jeanne Leiby, Editor of The Florida Review from 2004 to 2007.
The winner of the award receives chapbook publication, 50 copies of the winning chapbook, and $1,000 upon publication.
To submit a prose or graphic narrative chapbook see submission guidelines here.
Congratulations to two 2024 Best of the Net Finalists: Andreas Trolf’s “75 Simple Steps to Positive, Growing Change” and Catherine-Esther Cowie’s “Heirloom.”
We’re also excited to announce Anney Bolgiano’s “Junior Steaks” and Sihle Ntuli’s “Blues for King Kong” are included in the 2024 Best of the Net anthology!
All finalists and selections were originally featured in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.
Congratulations to Matt Leibel for being a 2024 Best Small Fictions Selection. Leibel’s “The Wedding Photographer Photographer” will be part of the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology. Leibel’s story was originally published in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.