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”…
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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 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 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
Every year we nominate some poems for the Forward Prize For Best Single Poem. This award recognises the author of the best individual poem published in a magazine in the previous year. It comes with a top prize of £1000. Best of luck to our four nominees…
2014 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
We’ve now sent in Neon’s four nominations for the Forward Arts Foundation’s 2014 poetry prize. Each of the below have been entered into the Best Single Poem category – congratulations and best of luck to all of them…
2013 Pushcart Prize Nominations
We’re pleased to announce Neon’s nominations for next year’s Pushcart Prize. These three stories and one poem are picked from all of the work that the magazine published over the course of 2013. Congratulations to all of the authors and poets involved…