#Pushcart Prize

[synonymsfordismember]

Such an incredible honor to be nominated!!

[risingphoenixpress]

In a year when this world found so many new ways to break our hearts, I found hope and good medicine in the works of all of the poets who submitted to Rising Phoenix Review. All of you filled those broken places with new narratives, perspectives, and reasons to stay. Reasons to love this world. Renewed fortitude to use this platform to fight oppression. Renewed vision and determination to bring material change to communities who need it most.

If you need good medicine too, like I still do, I hope you find some of what you need in the words of the six phenomenal poets we nominated for The Pushcart Prize this year. Take what you need. Rest your soul and restore your resolve. Take care of each other. We will bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice, with our shoulders pressed against it, fighting together.

-Christian Sammartino Founder & Editor in Chief Rising Phoenix Review

Rising Phoenix Review Pushcart Prize Nominees

After Poverty, Witness By Felicia Martínez

GENDER By Ian Powell-Palm

If Revolutions Devolve into Terror By Kika Dorsey

hole the size of candlestick By Karina Fantillo

to the fish market on central and eastway By Ash Chen

When God Lived in New Jersey By Louisa Muniz

[thenewephemera]

Falling over in a way that looks like happiness because I just learned this story received a Pushcart nomination, and that's some nice news at the tail end of a hard, strange year.

yay

[smhallow]

i'm being nominated for a pushcart prize

what the hell

[jawn-hextall]

I don't know if I can post it on twitter, so until then, here is my little flash, poem, thing published in Gutslut Press' Bonemilk 1.

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022.

When we were young, we watched in horror as grandma cracked discarded chicken bones and sucked the marrow like a rare treat. She was of that generation that hated waste, would eat the eyes, the brain, the liver and any other part that could be consumed. The best, she always said, was the marrow.

The dead do not taste like the living, and I’ve never seen the appeal. In the discarded. The remnants. The unwilling. I’ve tasted pieces, kidneys, and collars, bones and thighs, and found my way to the valleys around your neck, the curves of your ribs.

Hold your wrists high in prayer, a sacrifice to the insatiable, bound by breath and sweat and tension.

Spread your ribs at the touch of my lips. Crack and bend and break and release the things hidden deep inside your bones until there is nothing left, but brittle empty bone and thread. And I’ll take the deepest parts of you; the gristle and waste and things that another person might discard, if they don’t know the taste of the marrow.

You can buy the full collection here:

Bonemilk 1 Digital

Bonemilk 1 Physical

[thebitchink]

We are proud to announce our nominees for The Pushcart Prize! Our nominees are: A. Coghlan, “Meeting the Wounded Boy from the Canal Zone,” Cheryl Aguirre, “Elegía para papá,” Rex Ybañez, “Transitory Static,” Tangela Williams-Spann, “Catharsis,” Zoha Sh., “Our Grandmothers Know Grief.”

Thank you to everyone who submitted their work to The B'K and All My Relations throughout the year! Read each of these pieces if you haven't already on our nominations page at the link below. https://www.talbot-heindl.com/2022-best-of-nominations

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

"If Adam Picked the Apple" - Danielle Coffyn

[veronicaleighauthor]

Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom – Paperback Edition

I’m late in posting this, but…

“Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom” is now available in paperback. My historical gothic horror story, “Wabash Valley Devil” is one of the twenty-seven stories published in this anthology. If you’re interested in reading it, you can buy it here!

There’s something else!

The editor of the anthology, Ann van de Bergh, nominated “Wabash Valley Devil” for…

The Pushcart Prize!

I was completely stunned and touched by this. No one has ever nominated my writing – or yours truly even – for anything. I had also thought that pieces nominated for the Pushcart Prize were highbrow literary fiction. According to the website:

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses. The Pushcart Prize has been a labor of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60’s and 70’s. Our legacy is assured by donations to our Fellowships endowment.

God only knows what the outcome will be. But I’m beyond pleased and honored for “Wabash Valley Devil” to be under consideration. When I hear of the results, I’ll be sure to post it.

Special thanks to Ann van de Bergh for her thoughtfulness and support and for including my story in the anthology in the first place.

Until next time!

[angela-yuriko-smith]

“Free Fall in the Nth Extinction” by Naomi Simone Borwein

Please welcome Naomi Simone Borwein into the Poetry Spotlight reading “Free Fall in the Nth Extinction.”

Black out and you’re falling hardthrough the asphalt-skywind razor-sharp cuttingbody corporeal howlinghovering limbs star-fished, pancaked paragliding, mind tearingage [eroding] around you. Your descent, increasing exponentially, the patchwork landscape glistening Faberge tissue,a quivering phosphorescent arc offlickering blue copper chloride,tracking, this bird’s eye view of thefinal…

[barbaragenova]

AMA. 

[esstrauss]

Please come celebrate myself & my talented friends as we read from our #pushcartnominated collections; 1pm ET 💖 @readorgreenbooks @thewordiswrite @guerilla_poets

[the-horizontal-poet]

Thank you to Marie Lecrivain, editor of Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women’s Arts and Writing Journal, for nominating my poem “Queen of Sheba Market” for a Pushcart Prize. Lecrivain also edits Dashboard Horus, a journal of travel literature to realms real and imagined.

[ligeiamag]

Ligeia Magazine's 2022 Pushcart Nominations! Congratulations to these talented writers and GOOD LUCK! Thank you for thinking of us to share your work!

[vmaddesso]

Thank you to Sleet Magazine for nominating my short story, Cinnamon and Me, for a Pushcart Prize! And congratulations to all the other nominees!🤗💛✌️

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“…So all these hippies, leftovers from Woodstock, moved in, and although they annoyed the locals with their hair and bare feet…”

You can read the full story — Cinnamon and Me — here:

I wrote it and hope you read it and enjoy it.

Peace🤗💛✌️

[sparksofcalliope]

And the winner is...

#poetry #award #pushcartprize #pushcart #SparksofCalliope #LaurieKuntz #poetrylovers

Sparks of Calliope is pleased to announce its 2024 nomination of “My Father Remembers” by Laurie Kuntz has been selected for inclusion in Pushcart Prize XLIX (2025 edition). Congratulations, Laurie! Read “My Father Remembers” in Sparks of Calliope here. In accordance with the contract provided by Pushcart Press, Sparks of Calliope and Ms. Laurie Kuntz will receive a copy of this edition of…

[foxmulderautism]

the sexual tension between me and the short story prize that still says submissions will open in august 2023 on their site