At West Texas Literary Review, our mission is to elevate artists as much as possible. To this end, we nominate our writers for various awards, including the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and others. Such decisions are, of course, subjective. If you want a sense of what we look for in the nomination process, below are the pieces that we have nominated in the past.
2018:
Ray Ball
The Four-Legged Beast
Lisa Bellamy
God is an Old Pear
Jesse Miksic
Domovoi
Matthew Murrey
Crickets
Michael Rogner
Lunch at the Center
Beth Oast Williams
Eating Laurices
2017:
Alejandro Escudé
June(ing)
George Perreault
Mr. Richardson’s Nails
Loren Walker
Border Town
Aida Bode
The truth how God spoke
Sheila Arndt
My Heart Runs on Chlorophyll
Matt Muilenburg
Destructive Acts on a Budget
2017:
Drew Pisarra
Unemployed at 50
Kelly Dolejsi
Loyalty
Paul Alexander
Trees Gathering Themselves into Ceremony
George Perreault
Mr. Richardson’s Nails
Travis Truax
Port Townsend
Grant Clauser
Burning Down the Carousel
Andrés Cruciani
From Princess Hemingway’s Diary Written the Morning of March 12, 1996, the Day of Her Death
Sheila Arndt
My Heart Runs on Chlorophyll
Tommy Vollman
Boots
Mark Lewandowski
The Alley