ONE ART’s Nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards
Kai Coggin – I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW
Abby E. Murray – I Can’t Find My Gender
Julie Weiss – Dear Daughter,
Sean Glatch – Having a Gay Awakening at the Elm Grove Public Pool
Hannah Tennant-Moore – Other People Explain My Sexuality to Me
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Learn more about the Monarch Queer Literary Awards.
ONE ART’s 2025 Best Spiritual Literature Nominations
tc Wiggins – Like Lightning
Moudi Sbeity – All Things Bloom
James Diaz – I will not go to Darkness having known Nothing of the Light
Naila Francis – For my friend weeping at the coffee shop
James Feichthaler – So Much Baggage
Gary Fincke – The Far North
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The annual Best Spiritual Literature awards are hosted by Orison Books.
“Orison Books publishes Best Spiritual Literature (formerly The Orison Anthology) every year, a collection of the best spiritual writing in all genres published in periodicals in the preceding year. […] Editors of literary periodicals (print or digital) may nominate work in a single genre or in multiple genres to be considered for inclusion in our annual anthology, Best Spiritual Literature, which will reprint the finest spiritually engaged writing from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.”
ONE ART’s 2025 Nominations for The Pushcart Prize
Kari Gunter-Seymour – A History of Fireworks
Ronda Piszk Broatch – The Only Dress You’ll Ever Need
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders – The Flyer
Penelope Moffet – Pirates
Olga Livshin – Blowout
T. R. Poulson – Treasure
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Tina Barry – Because I was Lonely
James Diaz – Once More, Into The Light
Callie Little – Headstone
Tamara Madison – Letter to Earth
B. Lynne Zika – Truce
Jane Zwart – Two Points Define a Line
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Congratulations to all our nominees!
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More information about Best of the Net here.
ONE ART’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Abby E. Murray – What It’s Like to Wonder Whose Country It Was First (12.11.23)
Bonnie Naradzay – Bede’s Sparrow (11.1.23)
Linda Laderman – Final Score (10.9.23)
Hayley Mitchell Haugen – Reserved (8.27.23)
Jennifer Garfield – self portrait at 39 (8.2.23)
Cheryl Baldi – THE DAY FALLING TO PIECES (7.30.23)
About The Nina Riggs Poetry Award
“Nina Riggs, author of The Bright Hour and Lucky Lucky, wrote
beautiful work on many subjects, including relationships and
domestic life. She knew how to savor every moment of her too-short
life, and in her poetry and her memoir, she explores the poignancy
and love that resonate in the details of every day. With this award,
Cave Wall seeks to honor poets like Nina, whose writing illuminates
just how extraordinary the ordinary can be.”
“Each year, Cave Wall will award at least one poet for the finest
writing that examines relationships, family, or domestic life. We
will be looking for poems published in journals and books during
the previous three years. Each winner will receive at least $1000
and, if funding permits, will be invited to give a reading in
Greensboro, NC, Nina Riggs’s hometown.”
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ONE ART’s Nominations for The Nina Riggs Poetry Award:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – My Son’s First Word (pub. 2022)
Ona Gritz – Office Visit (pub. 2022)
James Crews – The Smallest Kindness (pub. 2021)
Katie Richards – Foaling lesson (pub. 2020)
CL Bledsoe – Working from Home (pub. 2022)
Tom Hunley – An Urn Among Music Boxes (pub. 2021)
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Congratulations to our wonderful poets!!
~ ONE ART’s nominations for Orison Book’s Best Spiritual Literature (formerly The Orison Anthology) ~
Amit Majmudar – Constancy
Bracha K. Sharp – After The Questions
Jennifer Abod – At the Indian Ocean
Pauli Dutton – While Teaching Line Dancing at a Senior Center, Someone Accuses Me of Always Being Happy
Donna Spruijt-Metz – Day 0: Shekhinah
Robin Turner – The Unfolding
Congratulations to Chad Frame, Heather Swan, Erin Murphy, Kristin Garth, CL Bledsoe, and Eric Nelson!!
Read these meritorious poems here:
Chad Frame – Shepard
Heather Swan – On the Day After You Left This World
Eric Murphy – Revision Lesson
Kristin Garth – Sometimes a Cigar is Not Just
CL Bledsoe – I Wish You Were Fun
Eric Nelson – My Brothers
~ ONE ART’s 2022 Best of the Net nominations ~
What Were You Wearing? by Nicole Caruso Garcia
Bearing Water by Betsy Mars
Naviphobia by Sean Lynch
Rail Trail by James Harms
An Urn Among Music Boxes by Tom Hunley
After the Tortoise Won the Race by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Congratulations to all our nominees!!
Mark Danowsky & Louisa Schnaithmann
Editors
ONE ART: a journal of poetry
