Because we love the challenge at the end of every year to select six of the best pieces we published, we’re thrilled to have nominated the following for the 2022 Best of Small Presses:
“from Anaamaki / What Came from Beneath Ground” by Aja Couchois Duncan / watch | read
“Grandpa’s Gingerbread Cookies” by Kelechi Ubozoh / watch | read
“Bella” by Youssef Alaoui-Fdili / watch | read
“Counting Sheep” by Amanda Muñiz / watch | read
“Nostalgia” by Melissa Merin / watch | read
“Pieces from YOLOTL” by Lourdes Figueroa / watch | read
You can read and watch our previous nominations below:
2021
Sara Post: “Libations, HIPAA Style” / watch | read
Michael Warr, trans. by Chun Yu: “To Your Assailant” / watch | read
Jessica Barksdale: “When I Wash Raspberries” / watch | read
Tomas Moniz: “Masks On, Pants Off” / watch | read
Ernest White II: “Challenger” / watch | read
Emily Dezurick-Badran: “Ghosts” / watch | read
2020
Karla Brundage: “Alabama Dirt” / watch | read
Madeline Cash: “Hostage #4” / watch | read
Alia Salim: “Deep State” / watch | read
Alex Maceda: “Purple is a Late Blooming Color” / watch | read
Halim Madi: “As Home Became Metaphor” / watch | read
Robyn Carter: “Excelsior” / watch | read
2019
Shelley Wong: “To Yellow” « watch | read
Donna Laemmlen: “The Dangers of Helium” « watch | read
Lisa Galloway: “Mercy” « watch | read
Mairav Zonszein: “A Birth Story” « watch | read
Maddy Raskulinecz: “Intruders in Ms. Hansen-Knudsen’s Class” « watch | read
Kevin Dublin: “Argument” « watch | read
2018
Cassandra Dallett: “Jails Have ATM Machines Now” « watch | read
Ruth Crossman: “Tom Petty” « watch | read
Emily Dezurick-Badran: “The Werewolf in Love” « watch | read
André Le Mont Wilson: “The Ass Wiper” « watch | read
Clare Lilliston: “Coelacanth” « watch | read
Sarah Henry: “2017” « watch | read
2017
Charlie Getter: “Geography Lesson” « watch | read
Kate Folk: “Funeral Requirements for Thwarted Children” « watch | read
Jenny Xie: “Wendy Beside Herself” « watch | read
Kazumi Chin: “The Very Last New Year’s Resolution” « watch | read
Jason Bayani: “Antidepressants” « watch | read
Eric Kurhi: “The Snake Guy” « watch | read
2016
Ploi Pirapokin: “David, the Cephalopod” « watch | read
David Welper: “Garlic” « watch |read
Susanna Kwan: “Up, Apart, Away” « watch | read
Yxta Maya Murray: “The Whitney’s 2016 Max Mara Anniversary Bag Designed by Renzo Piano’s Building Workshop” « watch | read
E.C. Messer: “The Poet” « watch | read
Brynn Saito: “How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning” « [vid + text coming soon]
2015
Claire Williams: “The Man Who Drank the Sea” « watch | read
Kristina Ten: “Milkless” « watch | read
Maggie Tokuda-Hall: “Miri and the Squid” « watch | read
Hugh Behm-Steinberg: “Mouse-Colored Penduline Tits” « watch | read
Maw Shein Win: “Score” « watch | read
Bonnie Kwong: “The Moon from the Corner of Her Eye” « watch | read
2014
Elena Mauli Shapiro: “December 25, 1989” « watch | read
Matthew Zapruder: “To Sergio Franchi” « read
Peter Orner: “Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying” « watch | read
Kai Carlson-Wee: “Holes in the Mountain” « watch | read | bonus
Christine No: “Mattress Man” « watch | read
Colin Winnette: “Ghost Mountain Island Murder Mystery” « read
2013
erica lewis: “Bodies Dream of Themselves” « watch | read
Susan Steinberg: “Spectator” « watch | read
Brandon Brown: “My Favorite Things” « watch | read
Molly Giles: “Harm Done” « watch | read
Jarett Kobek: “#YOLO” « read
Charlie Getter: “Untitled (I live on an iceberg)” « watch
2012
Cassie J. Sneider: “Romance” « watch | read
A.D. Winans: “Fourth of July Poem” « watch | read
Toni Mirosevich: “The Right Spot” « watch | read
Siamak Vossoughi: “Not A Party” « watch | read
Sean Taylor: “It Sings Us Both to Sleep” « watch | read
L.J. Moore: “Fig. 23: Wrecked” « watch | read
2011
Jesús Castillo: from “Remains” « watch | read
Graham Gremore: “Happy Birthday (Sorry You Missed It)” « watch | read
James Warner: from All Her Father’s Guns « watch | read
Siamak Vossoughi: “Don’t Ask Me” « watch | read
Joseph Lease: “Lost Highway” « watch | read