The Forward Prizes are among the most prestigious awards open to both established and emerging poets in the UK. They’ve been running since 1992, and in that time winners have included poets such as Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Kate Tempest and hundreds of others…
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Neon’s 2018 Best Small Fictions Nominations
One of the last things we did in 2018 was send off our nominations for the Best Small Fictions anthology – an annual collection of the best short and hybrid fiction collated by Braddock Avenue Books. In past years a number of stories which which first appeared in Neon have have gone on to grace the pages of a BSF anthology, including Lydia Armstrong’s “The November We Are Fifteen” and Claire Joanne Huxham’s “Correspondence”…
2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes for poetry are a set of annual writing awards designed to celebrate the work of both established and emerging poets in the UK. They’re one of the most prestigious and long-running poetry prizes out there, with past winners that include Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Kate Tempest and hundreds of other prominent poets…
Neon’s 2017 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Each year Braddock Avenue Books collects together the best “small fictions” published in the previous year for their aptly-named anthology The Best Small Fictions. Several stories which first appeared in Neon have been reprinted there, including Lydia Armstrong’s “The November We Are Fifteen” and Claire Joanne Huxham’s “Correspondence”…
Neon’s 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Each year we put forward six pieces from the previous year of Neon Literary Magazine to be considered for the Pushcart Prize. In case you’ve never heard of it, the Pushcart Prize is intended to celebrate the very best of the small press world by collecting together the finest works of fiction and poetry published in literary magazines and anthologies…
2017 Forward Prize For Best Single Poem Nominations
Each year Neon Literary Magazine nominates a select handful of its featured poems for the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The award has been running since 1992, and is recognised as one of the greatest honours for poetry in the United Kingdom and Ireland…
2016 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Flash fiction is one of our favourite forms, and so it’s always a pleasure to see it recognised by the annual Best Small Fictions anthology. The anthology has, this year, been adopted by Braddock Avenue Books, and will be guest-edited by none other than Amy Hempel…
2016 Write Well Award Nominations
This year we’ve put forward several pieces for the 2016 Write Well Award, run by the Silver Pen Writers Association. This relatively new award seeks to recognise excellence in publishes short fiction in both print and electronic magazines…
2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes, awarded annually, are some of the most prestigious awards for poetry available in the UK. Each year we nominate four of the best poems published in Neon during the previous twelve months for the Best Single Poem category, the top prize for which is £1000…
2015 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Last year, Claire Joanne Huxham’s story “Correspondence” from issue 38 was selected for inclusion in the Queen’s Ferry Press anthology The Best Small Fictions. This year, we’ve nominated a selection of short works from the magazine once again. Here they all are…