#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

[rickpoet]

Thrilled, honored, and delighted (yes, all three) to be nominated by Dashboard Horus for a Pushcart prize for my poem "At Night With Pizza" from my most recent book "It's Spritz O'Clock Somewhere." Thanks editor Marie C Lecrivain! https://dashboardhorus.blogspot.com/2024/04/wednesday-april-10-2024-rick-luperts-at.html

[ponderreview]

We sent in our Pushcart nominations last week! We have so many great poems in Issue 16 that it was hard to choose only 6! Good luck to everyone!

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

A Prize of Pushed Carts, Or My Darling Ashmedai Shines Again <3

Thanks so much to The Metaworker Lit Mag for nominating my favorite piece ever, "Ashmedai and the Hairdresser," for the Pushcart Prize! This is the second year in a row one of my Ashmedai Tales was nominated, maybe this time, his pluck will win me one!

[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…

[veryslowreader]

The Pushcart Prize II

Permanent Midnight

[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

[butchfairyzine]

Artist spotlight- Courtly Fairies: Jennie and S.M Hallow! 👑

"Jennie is a double threat digital artist and tattooist from Queensland, Australia. She is a self-described goblin cowboy wizard. She loves westerns and her favourite art movement is rococo/baroque."

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"S. M. Hallow is a fairytale witch and Pushcart Prize nominee whose stories can be found in Baffling Magazine, Best of Fantasy Volume 3, Seize the Press, and Taco Bell Quarterly, among others." S.M.Hallow can be found at @smhallow

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Stay tuned for more updates about our artists and writers , we have some more amazing talents to show you all. Zine kickstarter will be in July.

[synonymsfordismember]

Published Work

Since all my pending publications are now out, I thought I'd put them in one easy to find place! Some are free online, some are pay to read, but lmk if anything's outside your price range and I'll just send you a pdf!

Blanket CW: My work is horror and horror adjacent, and features gore and potentially uncomfortable sexuality more often than not. Proceed with caution; particularly intense works will have additional content warnings.

The Hero: A nasty little story about smoking weed and working food service and performing acts of incredible and senseless violence on behalf of your coworkers. Published in Mangoprism.

Satellite Office: A nameless lesbian engineer forced from her workplace after a traumatic event develops an unusual medical issue, which exposes hairline cracks in her marriage. This probably has nothing to do with what she does for work. Published by Sans Press in their Stranger anthology; nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Polly Says: On the eve of their annual guys and dolls trip, three iDollators and their silicone brides gather in the basement of the most ambitious of their cohort for the unveiling of the newest enhancement to his doll, Polly. Things go downhill pretty quickly from there. Cws for sexuality and gore. Published in Cloaked Press's Nightmare Fuel: Body Horror anthology.

Born Sexy Tomorrow: A group of lovable twenty-somethings discover a nonverbal naked woman in the woods outside their lakehouse. Cws for heavy gore and cannibalism, I'm not kidding. Published in Reader Beware's fourth issue.

[butchkaramazov]

guess who got nominated for the pushcart prize

[jawn-hextall]

Hi, I'm AJ

I'm a writer, and photographer living in Philly. I've been published in a few places online, nominated for a Pushcart Prize once, and am a Non-Fiction editor for the online magazine JAKE the Mag.

I started a magazine of my own, the first issue is complete and free to read on my website. You can also read everything else that I've had published that's free to read online.

Here's the website. Go read everything!

[ponderreview]

We're very proud of our Pushcart nominees. We have some great work in this year's volume, and we're thrilled to send the on to the main contest. Good luck to all!

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

"If Adam Picked the Apple" - Danielle Coffyn