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In 2019, The Ekphrastic Review began nominating writers for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize literary awards. As of 2020, we are also nominating writers for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions.

We also created our own annual Fantastic Ekphrastic literary awards.

Thanks to our wonderful team of nomination readers, past and present, for making all of this possible: Dr. Queen Sarkar, Laura Cherry, Jordan Trethewey, Alarie Tennille, Kari Ann Ebert, and Carole Mertz, along with editor Lorette C. Luzajic.

In 2016, we nominated for one session, for Best of the Net.

​Our contributor Jo Balistreri was also nominated for a Pushcart in 2018 by the Pushcart reading committee!
 
  
Best Small Fictions 2021
 
The House of Mischief, by David Belcher
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-maria-izquierdo
 
Maple Street, London, by Brian Johnson
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/maple-street-london-1915-by-brian-johnson
 
Our Lady of Scarlet, by Kerfe Roig
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-augustus-john
 
Four Scenes, Two Friends, One Postcard, by Dorothy Burrows
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-franz-marc

Haibun for Luisa Adele Rosa Maria von Amann, Marquesa Casati, by Jane Dougherty
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-augustus-john
 


Best Microfiction Nominations 2021
 
When Alice Became the Rabbit, by Cyndi MacMillan (chosen for Best Microfiction anthology!)
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/when-alice-became-the-rabbit-by-cyndi-macmillan
 
Valve, by William Repass
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/valve-by-william-repass
 
The Word-Swallower Finds Her Groove, by Faye Brinsmead
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-word-swallower-finds-her-groove-by-faye-brinsmead
 
My Brother’s Ashes, by Ilona Martonfi
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-jean-francois-millet
 
Pigrimage, by Shira Atik
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/pilgrimage-by-shira-atik

Pushcart Prize Nominations 2021

Reflection, by Barbara Lydecker Crane
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/reflection-by-barbara-lydecker-crane
 
My Mother and Andy Warhol, by Robert Donohue
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/my-mother-and-andy-warhol-by-robert-donohue
  
Photo of My Dead Son, Taken At The DMV, by Alexis Rhone Fancher
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/photo-of-my-dead-son-taken-at-the-dmv-by-alexis-rhone-fancher
 
Seven Sadnesses, by Kip Knott
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/seven-sadnesses-by-kip-knott

Horse and Train, by Lisa McCabe
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/horse-and-train-by-lisa-mccabe

The Addictive Futility of Hope, by Brent Terry
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-addictive-futility-of-hope-by-brent-terry


Pushcart Prize 2020


do not speak to me of pain, by Ali Whitelock 

http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/do-not-speak-to-me-of-pain-by-ali-whitelock
 
Louisiana Zombie Afternoon, by Kyle Laws
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/jenn-zed-ekphrastic-challenge-responses-poetry
 
Vanessa Bell is Sending Me Dreams, by Patricia Goodwin 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/vanessa-bell-is-sending-me-dreams-by-patricia-goodwin
 
Fauves of Luxury, Calm, and Desire, by Janiru Liyanage 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/fauves-of-luxury-calm-and-desire-by-janiru-liyanage
 
Pair of Cranes, by Deborah Schmidt 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/pair-of-cranes-by-deborah-schmidt
 
Corollary, by Rajani Radhakrishnan  
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/corollary-by-rajani-radhakrishnan
​
2017

Gabriele Munter Paints Her Lover, by Mary Jo Balistreri
​(nominated by the Pushcart editors) 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/gabriele-munter-paints-her-lover-by-mary-jo-balistreri​


Best of the Net Nominations 2020

Josephine, by Lewis Braham
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/josephine-by-lewis-braham
 
Second Plum, by Tricia Marcella Cimera
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/second-plum-by-tricia-marcella-cimera
 
Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, by Suzanne Craig-Whytock
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/landscape-with-the-fall-of-icarus-by-suzanne-craig-whytock
 
 
When You Lose Your Mooring, by Kyle Laws
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-challenge-responses-toyen
 
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman, by Janiru Liyanage
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-anatomy-lesson-of-dr-deijman-by-janiru-liyanage
 
French Pumpkin Soup, by Laurie Newendorp
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-responses-anne-vallayer-coster
 
Carry Along, by Kari Nguyen
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-challenge-responses-barbara-danin
 
Suicide’s Note in Turquoise, by Shruthi Shivkumar
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/suicides-note-in-turquoise-by-shruthi-shivkumar
Pondering Rothko, by Sandi Stromberg
 
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-challenge-responses-mark-rothko
 
War, by Alarie Tennille
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-challenge-responses-toyen
 

Best of the Net 2019

Corollary, by Rajani Radhakrishnan 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/corollary-by-rajani-radhakrishnan

Caught, by Mike Baynham 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/caught-by-mike-baynham

Metal Man, by Robert L. Dean 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/metal-man-by-robert-l-dean-jr

After the Revolution, by .chisaraokwu. 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/after-the-revolution-mine-eyes-see-inferno-by-chisaraokwu

Three Tanka After Monet, by Gabriel Rosenstock 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/three-tanka-after-monet-in-irish-and-english-by-gabriel-rosenstock

Vanessa Bell is Sending Me Dreams, by Patricia Goodwin 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/vanessa-bell-is-sending-me-dreams-by-patricia-goodwin

Paintbrush: a Surgical Tool, by Sophia Thimmes 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/paintbrush-a-surgical-tool-by-sophia-thimmes

Lightning, by Ryan O'Connell 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/lightning-by-ryan-oconnell 

The Lovelorn Trees of Cozumel, by Edwin Alanis-Garcia 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-lovelorn-trees-of-cozumel-by-edwin-alanis-garcia

Landscape, by Jenna Gallemore 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/landscape-a-sort-of-love-note-to-brian-ulrich-by-jenna-gallemore

​2016 

Ruth Bavetta, for “Memories Suspended by Filaments”
 
Magdelyn Hammond Helwig, for "Artemesia Gentileschi Painting Judith"

Veronica Lupinacci, for “Portrait of a Little Girl, Painted by Elizabeth Chant”
 
Robert Thiessen, for “Bathsheba”
 
Jenna Le, for “Villanelle for Louise Bourgeois”
 
Alarie Tennille, for “Surrounded by Monet’s Water Lilies”
Fantastic Ekphrastic Awards 2021

Ruth Bavetta

Funeral Mask From Mycenae

Rose Mary Boehm
See Me

Matthew Brennan
Winter Landscape

Johanna Caton, OSB
​Five Poems on Art by Miki Lovett

Deborah Gorlin
Poems About Isabella Blow

Jean L. Kreiling
Three Nocturnes

Kyle Laws 
Fall from the Horse of War, 1961

Ryan Rowland
Oh Cuyahoga

Sandi Stromberg
A Surrealist Gives the Chimpanzee Pencil and Paper

Kate Young
Dirt to Dust


Fantastic Ekphrastic Awards 2020


Portly Bard
 
for outstanding ekphrastic achievement, for his body of ekphrastic work in The Ekphrastic Review, and consistent participation and excellence in the challenges
 
Mona Lisas
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/mona-lisas-by-portly-bard
 
Read more:
http://www.ekphrastic.net/apps/search?q=portly+bard
 

Margaret Benbow 
 
Young Gloria Swanson as the Lion's Bride 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/young-gloria-swanson-as-the-lions-bride-by-margaret-benbow
 

Elya Braden
 
Weather Report 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/weather-report-by-elya-braden


Lewis Braham 
 
Josephine
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/josephine-by-lewis-braham


Barbara Crooker
 
for outstanding ekphrastic achievement, a body of ekphrastic work in and outside of the journal
 
Van Gogh’s Crows
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/van-goghs-crows-by-barbara-crooker
 
Read more:
http://www.ekphrastic.net/apps/search?q=Crooker%2C+barbara
 
Read her books:
https://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Crooker/e/B000APR7GU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1579780872&sr=1-1

​
Janiru Liyanage
 
Fauves of Luxury, Calm and Desire 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/fauves-of-luxury-calm-and-desire-by-janiru-liyanage
 
**

Laurie Newendorp 
 
Orpheus in the 21th Century
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-challenge-responses-barbara-danin


Rajani Radhakrishnan
 
Corollary
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/corollary-by-rajani-radhakrishnan
 

Deborah Schmidt
 
Pair of Cranes 
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/pair-of-cranes-by-deborah-schmidt
 

Alarie Tennille
 
for outstanding ekphrastic achievement, for her body of ekphrastic work in and outside of The Ekphrastic Review, contributions, participation, promotion and support of the journal from its inception
 
Night Watch
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/omar-odeh-ekphrastic-writing-challenge-responses
 
Read more: http://www.ekphrastic.net/apps/search?q=Alarie+tennille
 
Read her books: 
https://www.amazon.com/Alarie-Tennille/e/B00JSO5S9C/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
 

    Lorette C. Luzajic theekphrasticreview@gmail.com 

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