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 2005

Short Fiction:

• Pete Sipchen -- Foreign Land
• Phil Richardson -- The Joker's Wild
• Joseph S. Sollazzo -- The Doorbell

Poetry:

• Patrick LoBrutto -- Dream After a Day of Fear
• Melanie M. Eyth -- The Liquidity of My Labours

Essay:

• Jory Sherman -- Images of the Ozarks

Nominees for 2006

Short Fiction:

• Lori Culwell -- Lessons Learned From A Pimp
• Jeremy S. Adams -- The Coin, The Pendulum and the Bubble 
• Jonathan Fore -- Undone

Non-Fiction:

• Emmitt Maxwell Furner II -- The Horse Fly Watcher

Essay:

• George Keithley -- Luck

Poetry:

• Romance in F Major -- Donna Pucciani

 No nominees for 2007

Nominees for 2008

 Short Stories:

• Judi Kolenda--The Fledgling
• Smoke--Devin Reany
• High Tolerance for Pain--Rosana Clarkson
• The Sunflower Forest--J. A. Pollard

Poetry:

• Courtenay Stallings--Tattoo
• Stephen Bradford--Un Bel Di, Vedremo

NOMINEES FOR 2009 

Short Stories

• Glenda Brown Rynn--Rewinding Snoopy
• Lori Elliott--Rose's Choice
• Roland Allnah--Creep
• Judith Kirscht--Hear the Wind Blow
• Allen Kopp--Hermaphrodite Ward

Poetry

• Mark Jarmon--A Captain, Cook, and Crew

* From the Pushcart Prize website.

http://www.freewebs.com/fossilcreek to order copies and subscriptions

Webmaster: CheyDok Designs