Award Nominations
Toasted Cheese nominates for the Best of the Web Anthology, Best of the Net Anthology, the storySouth Million Writers Award, the Pushcart Prize, and The Best Creative Nonfiction anthology.
All regular submissions chosen as Featured Writing (i.e. work selected for inclusion by a majority of the editors) are eligible for nomination. Note that some competitions (e.g. Best of the Web, Million Writers Award) also consider other pieces published within the eligible time frame.
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Nominations for the 2010 storySouth Million Writers Award (for fiction published online in 2009):
- "Painting Naked" by Kimberley Idol
- "We're Not Common" by Tara Kenway
- "The Ceasefire Symphony" by Rebecca Stonehill
"Stowaways" by Kimberley Idol, "After Seven Long Years" by Sheela Jaywant, and "The Oaten Hands" by Nathaniel Tower selected as Notable Stories of 2009.
"Stowaways" by Kimberley Idol was shortlisted for the 2010 Million Writers Award.
Nominations for the Pushcart Prize XXXV (for fiction, poetry, essays published by little magazines and small presses in 2009):
- "Confirmation" by Gale Acuff
- "Hubris" by David Fulton
- "Painting Naked" by Kimberley Idol
- "We're Not Common" by Tara Kenway
- "Foolish Creatures" by Frank O’Connor
- "The Ceasefire Symphony" by Rebecca Stonehill
Nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010 print anthology (for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published online between November 1, 2008 and October 31, 2009):
- "Things Difficult to Say" by Alan Averill
- "Painting Naked" by Kimberley Idol
- "Foolish Creatures" by Frank O'Connor. Selected for publication in the Best of the Web 2010 anthology.
Nominations for the 2009 Best of the Net Anthology (for poetry and fiction published online between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009):
- "Things Difficult to Say" by Alan Averill
- "Fireglass" by Jacob Strunk
- "Confirmation" by Gale Acuff
- "Skin" by C.P. Dotson
- "Hubris" by David Fulton
- "Strike" by Casey Hill
- "When a Porn Star Steals a Poet's Name" by Natasha Kochicheril Moni
- "Withdrawal" by Adam Poltrack
Nominations for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award (for fiction published online in 2008):
- "Malicious Acts" by Kate Gibalerio. Selected as one of the Notable Stories of 2008.
- "Fireglass" by Jacob Strunk.
- "Things Difficult to Say" by Alan Averill.
Nominations for the 2009 Pushcart Prize (for fiction, poetry, essays published by little magazines and small presses in 2008):
- "From: Man_2579@companionsearch.org To: Woman_1375@companionsearch.org" by Charles D. Phillips.
- "Malicious Acts" by Kate Gibalerio.
- "Nevada" by Amber Norwood.
- "Fireglass" by Jacob Strunk.
- "Things Difficult to Say" by Alan Averill.
- "Harley" by Peggy Newland.
Nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2009 print anthology (for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published online between October 30, 2007 and September 20, 2008):
- "From: Man_2579@companionsearch.org To: Woman_1375@companionsearch.org" by Charles D. Phillips.
- "Malicious Acts" by Kate Gibalerio.
- "Fireglass" by Jacob Strunk.
"Little Mother" by Amber Cook (Billiard's Pick in TC 8:3) selected for publication in the Best of the Web 2009 anthology.
Nominations for the 2008 Best of the Net Anthology (for poetry and fiction published online between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008):
- "The Path to Mental Health" by Brandy Langenwalter.
- "Malicious Acts" by Kate Gibalerio.
- "Monsoon," "As Many as there are Types of Grass," and "Nevada" by Amber Norwood.
- "fortune teller," "Howling in a High Clearing," and "coffee at night" by Linda King.
Nominations for the 2008 storySouth Million Writers Award (for fiction published online in 2007):
- "The Path to Mental Health" by Brandy Langenwalter.
- "Jumping the Tracks" by Margo McCall.
- "The Year Michael Got His Own Page in the Yearbook" by Nick Seagers.
Nominations for the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008 print anthology (for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published online between January 1, 2007 and September 15, 2007):
- "Thirty-two Suns" by Rebecca Nazar.
- "Pas de Deux" by Claire Rudy Foster.
- "This Teacher Talks Too Damn Fast" by Megan Stielstra.
Nominations for the 2007 Best of the Net Anthology (for poetry and fiction published online between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007):
- "A Collection of Stones" by Gavin Tierney.
- "Roller Coaster" by Terri Moran.
- "Story" and "Praxis" by Karen Neuberg.
- "evening together," "the spider isn't attached" and "Corporeal" by Diane Tucker.
- "Aunt Pauline at 83" by Teresa McLamb Blackmon.
Nominations for the 2007 storySouth Million Writers Award (for fiction published online in 2006):
- "Desert Creatures" by Anna Evans.
- "Pillaged" by Gina Sakalarios-Rogers. Selected as one of the Notable Stories of 2006.
- "Roller Coaster" by Terri Moran.
Nominations for 2007 Pushcart Prize (for fiction, poetry, essays published by little magazines and small presses in 2006):
- "East From Seattle" by Donna Mae Brown.
- "Desert Creatures" by Anna Evans.
- "Story" by Karen Neuberg.
- "Pillaged" by Gina Sakalarios-Rogers.
- "A Collection of Stones" by Gavin Tierney.
- "Corporeal" by Diane Tucker.
Nominations for 2006 storySouth Million Writers Award (for fiction published online in 2005):
- "Musee Mecanique" by Terri Brown-Davidson.
- "Refuge" by Anna Evans.
- "Cravings" by Trish O'Brien-Edwards. Selected as one of the Notable Short Stories of 2005.



