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