I’m very pleased to have a piece selected for the longlist for the 2025 Wigleaf Top 50. The Wigleaf Top 50 is an annual digital anthology of hand selected short fiction work published online. The 2025 selections are based on the year 2024. This year is the last year Shome Dasgupta will be running the series. The website shows the following editors, but I’m not sure this is current:
- Sudha Balagopal is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
- Ruth Joffre is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
- Alice Maglio is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
- Colleen Rothman is an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
- Our Readers for the Top 50 are Sacha Bissonnette, Vincent Chavez, Casey Hannan, LaToya Jordan, Alexandria Juarez, Sean Lovelace, Jenée Skinner, Kate Tooley, Anne Weisgerber, and Erica L. Williams.
Gerardo Sámano Córdova was, in fact, the selecting editor this year!
I admire Shome and the staff for all the time they’ve generously donated to the series for years now, and it’s nice of Wigleaf to host it. For those who don’t know the process, there is not a nomination process, so the editors just monitor publications throughout the year, compiling a longlist and winner list. It’s a huge, undertaking.
For writers hoping to be included, or writers who hope for nominations for other awards like Pushcart and Best of the Net, I recommend staying visible, which gets harder and harder on social and compiling a publication list each year (for all nominations also) and promoting it before deadlines arise.
My piece was published in Rogan Kelly’s Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, one of two literary ‘zines he helms (he also created The Night Heron Barks). Both are innovative zines featuring an eclectic array of writing.
My piece was a short one about my ass. It also received a Pushcart nomination, which I’m grateful for. While it didn’t win, the nominations are the win… Here’s a link, if you’d like to read it.
Wigleaf doesn’t have links to specific pages as they seem to be posting content in frames, but, for now, you can find the Wigleaf Top 50 winners and longlist at the top of their webpage here.