The Pushcart Prize: The Best of the Small Presses is a yearly anthology, edited by Bill Henderson.
The anthology stories are collected by small press editors around the U.S. from what they believe to be the best stories, essays, or poems published in their magazine that year. Once they have made their selections, they send them to the Pushcart committee. The arduous task of choosing what will be included in the anthology begins at that point.
This is one of the most honored literary series in America.
The Pushcart Prize has won the Carey-Thomas Award, has been selected several times as a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review and has been chosen for many Book-of-the-Month Club and QPB selections. Recently, the Pushcart Press and its Prize were named among "the most influential" in the development of the American book business over the past 125 years by Publishers weekly.* www.pushcartprize.com
A nomination to the Pushcart is an honor as that particular editor believed your work to be the best of all they published that year.
Nominations are made in December and announcements of those included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology are made in April.
Nominees for 2008
Short Stories
Judi Kolenda--The Fledgling
Devin Reany--Smoke
Rosana Clarkson--High Tolerance For Pain
Poetry
Courtenay Stallinas--Tattoo
Stephen Bradford--Un Bel Di, Vedremo
NOMINEES FOR 2009
Short Stories
Glenda Brown Ryan--Rewinding Snoopy
Lori Elliott--Rose's Choice
Roland Allnach--Creep
Judith Kirscht--Hear the Wind Blow
Allen Kopp--Hermaphrodite Ward
Poetry
Mark Jarmon--A Captain, Cook, and Crew
NOMINEES FOR 2010
Short Stories
Anthony Brantley--Work
Michael Mallory--The Perfect Christmas Tree
Jim Chmura--The Finger of Death
Bryan Byrd--What's in a Number?
Poetry
Patricia Gilmore--Doran Beach
Lauren A. Wilcox--Bayou Song
Nominees for 2011
Essays
Kamal Parmer--The Magic of Monsoons in India
Harvey Silverman--The Field
The Ford Granada--Brian Huba
Short Stories
Robert Dean Gentry--Downhill
Nigel Sansom--My Side of the Bed
Poetry
Rebecca Joy Wellman--Mailbox
www.pushcartprize.com
* From the
Pushcart Prize website.
The anthology stories are collected by small press editors around the U.S. from what they believe to be the best stories, essays, or poems published in their magazine that year. Once they have made their selections, they send them to the Pushcart committee. The arduous task of choosing what will be included in the anthology begins at that point.
This is one of the most honored literary series in America.
The Pushcart Prize has won the Carey-Thomas Award, has been selected several times as a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review and has been chosen for many Book-of-the-Month Club and QPB selections. Recently, the Pushcart Press and its Prize were named among "the most influential" in the development of the American book business over the past 125 years by Publishers weekly.* www.pushcartprize.com
A nomination to the Pushcart is an honor as that particular editor believed your work to be the best of all they published that year.
Nominations are made in December and announcements of those included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology are made in April.
Nominees for 2008
Short Stories
Judi Kolenda--The Fledgling
Devin Reany--Smoke
Rosana Clarkson--High Tolerance For Pain
Poetry
Courtenay Stallinas--Tattoo
Stephen Bradford--Un Bel Di, Vedremo
NOMINEES FOR 2009
Short Stories
Glenda Brown Ryan--Rewinding Snoopy
Lori Elliott--Rose's Choice
Roland Allnach--Creep
Judith Kirscht--Hear the Wind Blow
Allen Kopp--Hermaphrodite Ward
Poetry
Mark Jarmon--A Captain, Cook, and Crew
NOMINEES FOR 2010
Short Stories
Anthony Brantley--Work
Michael Mallory--The Perfect Christmas Tree
Jim Chmura--The Finger of Death
Bryan Byrd--What's in a Number?
Poetry
Patricia Gilmore--Doran Beach
Lauren A. Wilcox--Bayou Song
Nominees for 2011
Essays
Kamal Parmer--The Magic of Monsoons in India
Harvey Silverman--The Field
The Ford Granada--Brian Huba
Short Stories
Robert Dean Gentry--Downhill
Nigel Sansom--My Side of the Bed
Poetry
Rebecca Joy Wellman--Mailbox
www.pushcartprize.com
* From the
Pushcart Prize website.
