We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, the highest literary honor we can.
The nominations for 2024 are:
Poetry
“Cough” by Priscilla Atkins
“Chanting Kaddish for my Estranged Father” by Elya Braden
“Museum of Light” by Maureen Clark
(forthcoming in our December 2024 issue)
“I Have My Mother’s Thighs, and Other Things” by Susanna Stephens
(forthcoming in our December 2024 issue)
“tongue and cheek” by Isabel Fleck
(forthcoming in our December 2024 issue)
Prose
“My Daughter, the Volcano” by Edidiong Uzoma Essien
The nominations for 2023 are:
Poetry:
“For Robert O’Donnell” by Megan Mary Moore
“Collect for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist” by C. Henry Smith
“The Worried Women Odes” by Melissa McEver Huckabay
“You Have Cancer” by Stacy R. Nigliazzo
Prose
“East Dallas, Texas” by Alejandra Pena
“What We Lost Along the Way” by Scott Pomfret
The nominations for 2022 are:
Poetry:
“Lost” by Nina Clements
“Pomegranate” by Anna Gayle
“Tooth Fairy” by Catherine Arra
“Halfbreed Helene Goes to the Beach” by Sarah A. Chavez
Prose:
“Bunnies” by Gina Twardosz
“Waves” by Rachel Lloyd