2026 – BIG OTHER

Announcing Big Other’s Nominations for Best Small Fictions 2027!

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2027 (Black Lawrence Press): …

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Here are some quotes from his writing: “It is better to fail in originality,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tim Horvath! Celebrate by reading this Horvath fiction (with music by Rafaele Andrade), which we…

Philoxenia Darling strangers populate my life, ones I love dearly, more than life herself—a prophet and a blind woman,…

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! Here are some quotes from his books, interviews, etc. Speaking of interviews, read my career-spanning…

Happy birthday, John Ashbery! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too often feel like a person I…

Happy birthday, Gerard Manley Hopkins! Here are some quotes from his writing: “What you look hard at seems…

Happy birthday, William T. Vollmann! 67, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “If I try not to…

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the…