2023 UFM nominees:

Benjamin Nance “Solomon’s Angel” which appears in Issue 63
John Tustin “Borrowing Me,” “My Honesty” and “Unpaint You”  59 

2021 UFM nominees:

Deborah Prespare “Selvage” Issue 49
Jacqueline Henry “The Bean Pole,” “Hemingway on Toast,” and “Still We Pulse” Issue 51

2019 UFM nominees:

Holly Day “Old School, ” “These Days” and “Black and
White” Issue 36
Kate St. Germain “Unconditional” Issue 35

2018 UFM nominees:

Sanjida Yasmin “Naughty Boy,” “Small Glimpses” and “Two Smaragdine”  Issue 31

Ann Harper Reed “Brooch”  Issue 33

2017 UFM nominees:

Patricia Warren “Hurricane Me,” Issue 30

Lucinda Watson “In Rome With My Dad on Business” and “Letter Yet Unsent,” Issue 30

2016 UFM nominees:

Carl Boon “Corridors” “The New Village Cemetery” and “The Loss of a Son,” Issue 24

Mark Aufiery “The Ring,” Issue 23

2015 UFM nominees:

Amanda Bales‘s “Walking Back” and “The Captain Views the Heavener Runstone,” September Issue 21

AN Block‘s “Tumbling Downward and Plunging Headfirst,” December Issue 22

2014 UFM nominees:

Lauren Yates‘s “Fixation” “The Great Unwashed” and “Theatrics,” September Issue 19

Rosa del Duca‘s “One of the Guys,” September Issue 19

2013 UFM nominees:

Alicia Lawrence‘s “To Tell You,” “Osprey Overhead” and “Rain in Sumatera,” June Issue 14

Michail Mulvey‘s “A Fist Full of Honey Grass,” June Issue 14

2012 UFM nominees:

Alisha Kaplan‘s “Mockingbird,” “The Dance Floor” and “Statues of January,” September Issue 11

Justin Ridgeway’s short story “Things We Remember When Shopping for Something Nice to Wear and It’s Cold and We Just Want to Get Home,” March Issue 9