The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, since 1976, is one of the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Each year they welcome up to six nominations (print or online) from little magazine and small book press editors throughout the world. The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels. The Pushcart Prize is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60’s and 70’s.
For the year of 2021
From Space & Time magazine
“The Ghost, the Goat and the Robot” by Mariah Montoya (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
“And I Have Served” by Alina Maciuca (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
“The Hum of the Wheel, the Clack of the Wheel” by K.G. Anderson (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
“Substance” by Blaise Langlois (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
“A Walk in the Woods” by Pete Kelly (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
“haiku” by Scheila Scheffler (Spring, 140 Space & Time)
From Yuriko Publishing
“Beyond Shouting Hill” by Lee Murray (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
“Cheongsam” by Lee Murray (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
“When the Girls Began to Fall” by Geneve Flynn (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
“Abridged” by Geneve Flynn (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
“Conversations with the Dead 1928” by Christina Sng (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
“Conversations with the Dead 2028” by Christina Sng (Tortured Willows: Bowed. Bent. Unbroken)
For the year of 2020
“interference” by Leonard Speiser (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
“I Fear the Trees” by James Harris (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
“The Skin Least Taken” by Willow Dawn Becker (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
“Lovely Ludwig Van” by Alessandro Manzetti (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
“Explorer” by Lee Murray (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
“Bitten” by Cindy O’Quinn (Winter 139, Space & Time magazine)
For the year of 2019
“A Farewell to Worms” by Jon Linwood Grant (Autumn 134, Space & Time magazine)
“A Glass Darkly” by Ian Rogers (Autumn 134, Space & Time magazine)
“Hands of a Toolmaker” by Eric Del Carlo (Winter 135, Space & Time magazine)
“Looking Into My Bone” by John Reinhart (Winter 135, Space & Time magazine)
“Crimson Faces” by Maxwell I. Gold (Winter 135, Space & Time magazine)
“Reticence-Reticências” by Luiz Peters (Winter 135, Space & Time magazine)