Blog archive

2023 Pushcart Nominations

As always, failbetter is proud to submit our nominations for the annual Pushcart collection

Best of the Net Nod Congrats


Our congrats go out to Laura Perkins’s whose story Wanted: Girls, 18–25 yrs, 5’7″ & Up was recognized as a fiction finalist for the 2022 Best of The Net Anthology. 

That time of year.... Our 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees

We are grateful to the entire fb family whose works graced our pages in 2021, but we are particularly proud to nominate for possible 2022 Pushcart Prize consideration

2021 Pushcart Prize Nominees

As always, we are grateful to the following fb folks whose works graced our pages in 2020 (Uh, the year wasn't all bad!), and whom we are particularly proud to nominate for possible 2021 Pushcart Prize consideration:

Elphinstone” by Anu Kandikuppa

The Heavy One” by Chika Onyenezi

Lid Locking Into Place” by Sasha Graybosch

Congrats, Mr. Baxter!

Congrats go out acclaimed author, fb alum, and renowned teacher, Charles Baxter on multiple accounts.  First, he has earned his retirement from decades of giving and teaching several generations of writers.  Secondly, we are happy to report that his production continues, with a

2020 Pushcart Nominees

We are grateful to the following fb folks whose works graced our pages in 2019, and whom we are particularly proud to nominate for possible 2020 Pushcart Prize consideration

fb Alum update...Michael Chabon

It has been a long while since failbetter interviewed acclaimed author Michael Chabon...

RIP Stephen Dixon

It was with deep regret that the folks at failbetter heard the news of acclaimed author Stephen Dixon's passing

Our Annual Pushcart Nominations

It's that time of year

We are particularly pleased to nominate the following fb folks and works for possible 2019 Pushcart Prize consideration

An interview with Kate Gaskin

failbetter editor Audrey Walls has conducted an interview with Kate Gaskin to accompany "Retrieving the Guns," published in September 2018

Pages