Earlier this month, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle nominated a selection of our most memorable pieces for inclusion in several Best American Series anthologies. Each volume typically features a mere twenty or so works, handpicked from the hundreds—occasionally thousands—submitted every year. Fortunately, the days of losing an afternoon to the post office (queues snaking into the parking lot and sometimes your soul) are mostly gone, with online submissions now the norm. [Well, except for The Best American Essays, which has, somewhat mysteriously, reverted to snail mail this year—perhaps as an act of charity for the USPS.]
Tag: Best American Short Stories
At the end of October, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle nominated numerous pieces for inclusion in the various Best American Series anthologies. Twenty of so pieces are published in each anthology, and hundreds of submissions are sent each year. Mercifully, the submission process is now an online procedure sparing our editor from the dreaded post office line that inevitably extends to the parking lot.
Over the years, we’ve nominated work published in our magazine for various annual awards. The process has rarely been straightforward. Armies of micro mag editors up and down the country have grown accustomed to spending their marketing budgets making clumsy dissertations out of their digital journals in order to get the work evaluated by Top Table judges.
Mercifully, the vast majority of judges have stumbled across an incredible tool that streamlines the review process. It’s a free email service provided by Google. Entries get to them instantly and it even removes the threat of paper cuts. If only all judges would share this knowledge with others.
The Best American Series
New competitions emerge now and then, but every few years, a Best Of anthology editor closes the door on their PO Box and returns the key. The Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), is still going strong. In fact, the Best American Short Stories has lasted since 1915. Its five other series publications continue to accept submissions.
Lowestoft Chronicle recently nominated a number of pieces for the Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins). Although The Best American Travel Writing series was brought to a sudden halt in 2021, other titles in the long-running anthology series still accept submissions. These are our nominations for volume 2023 of the Best American Series.
We recently nominated the following pieces from 2021 for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series. Pleasingly, The Best American Essays series editor, Robert Atwan, selected … Read More ›
We’ve nominated these pieces for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series: The Best American Short Stories: “Hippasus of Metapontum” by Robert Perron “Mr. O’Brien’s Last … Read More ›