The editors of Terrain.org are pleased to announce our 2026 nominations for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, the prize by Pushcart Press that anthologizes the best of the small presses publishing this year, as well as the annual Best of the Net anthology, a project created by Sundress Publications.
Terrain.org 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominations
For contributions published in 2025:
Poetry
- “Obsidian” by Erin Rodoni
- “Anti-Trans Legislation at What Feels Like the End of the World” by Subhaga Crystal Bacon
- “Ode to the Fish” by Ellen Bass
Fiction
- “Sea Minks” by Carly Berwick
- “Amateur Hour” by Ibe Liebenberg
Nonfiction
- “Colony Collapse” by Lee Horiksohi Roripaugh
Terrain.org 2026 Best of the Net Nominations
For contributions published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025:
Poetry
- “The Verge” by Rick Barot
- “Ars Poetica or American Pastoral as Opening Scene for a Micro-documentary After Flipping the Script and Keeping the Darkness for Ourselves” by Chaun Ballard
- “1957” by Ever Jones
- “Ghazal of Lost Years” by Matthew Nienow
- “lips to feet” by Jarrett Ziemer
- “I Find Remnants of Home in the Map of My Body” by Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake
Fiction
- “Endlings” by Seth Borgen
- “Hell and Other Terrible Things that Might Happen in the Future” by Abigail Greenbaum
Nonfiction
- “My Deaths” by Lia Purpura
- “Colony Collapse” by Lee Horiksohi Roripaugh
Artwork
- “Offering One” by Melinda Hurst Frye
- “Hidden” by Klara Maisch
- “Mirage” by Klara Maisch
Please join us in congratulating these authors and artists—and if you haven’t yet viewed these contributions, now’s a good time to get them in your queue!
Header image from “Mirage,” by Klara Maisch.
