Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot"[1] published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate[2] up to six works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.
The founding editors are Anaïs Nin, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish, Harry Smith, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles, Paul Engle, Ralph Ellison, Reynolds Price, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, Bill Henderson[3] and William Phillips.[4]
Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize anthologies were: Kathy Acker, Steven Barthelme, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Bruce Boston, Raymond Carver, Joshua Clover, Junot Diaz, Andre Dubus, William H. Gass, Seán Mac Falls, William Monahan, Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Lance Olsen,[5] Miha Mazzini,[6] Peter Orner, Kevin Prufer, Kay Ryan, Mona Simpson, Ana Menéndez, Ladette Randolph, and Wells Tower.[7]
The Pushcart Prize celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016. It is supported and staffed by volunteers. The founder and editor is Bill Henderson.
The anthology, featuring fiction, poetry and essays, has earned national recognition. “Must reading for anyone interested in the present and future of America’s arts and letters.” — Kirkus Reviews[8] Pushcart Press was awarded the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for Publisher of the Year by Publishers Weekly.
Winners by year
- 2016 Pushcart XL[9]
- Chloe Honum for "Snow White" in TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics
- Morgan Parker for "Welcome to the Jungle" in Prelude, Issue 1[10]
- 2014 Pushcart XXXVIII
- Jessica Wilbanks for "Father of Disorder" in Ruminate Magazine
- Madhuri Vijay for "Lorry Raja" in Narrative Magazine
- Susan B.A. Somers-Willett for "Tallahatchie" in Orion
- Taymiya R. Zaman "Thirst" in Narrative Magazine
- Ocean Vuong for "Self Portrait with Exit Wounds" in Assaracus
- 2013 Pushcart XXXVII
- 2012 Pushcart XXXVI
- Miha Mazzini for "That Winter" in Ecotone
- Eve Becker for "Final Concert" in The Gettysburg Review
- 2011 Pushcart XXXV
- Mary Beth Hughes for "Double Happiness" in A Public Space
- Elliott Holt for "Fem Care" in The Kenyon Review
- Cheryl Strayed for "Munro Country" in The Missouri Review
- Alan Shapiro's "Indoor Municipal Pool" in the New Ohio Review
- Sarah Einstein for "Mot" in Ninth Letter
- Martin Moran for "Analphabet"
- Brigit Pegeen Kelly for "Rome"
- L. S. Asekoff for "Hither & Yon" in Ploughshares [11]
- 2010 Pushcart XXXIV
- Ashlee Crews for "Birdfeed" in McSweeney's
- 2009 Pushcart XXXIII
- 2008 Pushcart XXXII[12]
- 2007 Pushcart XXXI
- 2006 Pushcart XXX
- 2005 Pushcart XXIX
- 2004 Pushcart XXVIII
- BJ Ward for "Roy Orbison's Last Three Notes" in Painted Bride Quarterly[13]
- 2003 Pushcart XXVII [14]
- 2002 Pushcart XXVI
- 2001 Pushcart XXV
- 1999 Pushcart XXIV
- 1995 Pushcart XX
- Nora Okja Keller for short story "Mother-Tongue", which became the second Chapter of Comfort Woman.
- 1986 Pushcart X
- Sheila Nickerson for "Kodiak Widow"[15]
- 1976 Pushcart I
- Sheila Nickerson for "The Song of the Soapstone Carver"[16]
References
- ↑ Pushcart Prize website
- ↑ Pushcart Prize website Nomination Process for the Pushcart Prize
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- ↑ Pushcart Prize website News
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- ↑ Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2010, by Carolyn Kellogg Some of the Pushcart Winners for 2011
- ↑ Henderson, Bill (ed.) (2008). Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-1-888889-48-2.
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