Best Small Fictions 2018, Judged by Aimee Bender

I’m so honored that my piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” published by the wonderful Jellyfish Review, was chosen by Aimee Bender for Best Small Fictions 2018 (Braddock Avenue Books). Also thrilled that my story, “The Once Mighty Fergusons,” published by New World Writing, made the finalist list.

Here is the complete list: Best Small Fictions 2018

I’m so grateful that this anthology exists, thanks to the hard work of, first, Tara Masih, who edited the first three volumes, and now Sherrie Flick and all the readers and consulting editors. I think it’s the best anthology of short short fiction out there, as the nomination and selection process is thorough and painstaking and the judge, always someone very respected in the literary world (so far Robert Olen Butler, Stuart Dybek, Amy Hempel, Aimee Bender) reads the finalists blind. I’m so happy and honored to have had work included now in the last three volumes. I’m especially happy to see “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” included as it means so much to me. I continue to be overwhelmed by the response to it and am grateful to everyone who has shared it online and otherwise and those who have written to me to tell me how it touched them.

Congratulations to all the winners, finalists, and semi-finalists.