The Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Maureen Stanton for her essay "The Human Soup" (New England Review ) , featured in PPXLlV (2020 edition) now at your local independent bookstore or other sources.

America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer. Samuel Butler

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Juan Felipe Herrera for his poem "Roll Under The Waves"(Love's Executive Order) featured in PPXLlV (2020 edition)now at your local independent bookstore or other sources.

"The history of literature is nothing but the performance of authors of feats which the best experience had declared could not be performed." Arnold Bennett

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Meghan O'Gieblyn for her memoir "Homeschool" (n+1) featured in PPXLlV, (2020 edition) now at your local independent bookstore or other sources.

"Sprawling, trenchant...established and emerging authors working at the top of their game." review of PPXLlV (2020 edition) just in from Publishers Weekly.

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Cally Fiedorek for her story "The Arms of Saturday Night" (Narrative) featured in PPXLlV (2020 edition) now at your local independent bookstore.

The Pushcart Prize is " a truly remarkable collection of the finest small press poems, essays and short fiction." Booklist

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate the 72 authors from 47 presses featured in Pushcart Prize XLlV, (2020 edition), now at your local independent bookstore or other sources-- the thoughtful gift for every writer and reader.

December marks the start of our annual fund raising drive. We are supported only by our readers and friends. You may wish to contribute. See the Pushcart Prize website for information on how to donate. Thank you.

December 10 is the publication date for PPXLlV (2020 edition). Your local independent bookstore has a copy for you. If not, ask them to contact our distributor, WW Norton Co in New York.

Some dates: December 1 (postmark) is the final date for small press editors to make nominations for the next Pushcart Prize, to be published next Fall. No forms to fill out, no fees. See the Pushcart Prize website for details.

"When we show up to make art, we need to first get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed through us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it." Mirabai Starr

"Any writer overwelmingly honest about pleasing herself is almost sure to please others." Marianne Moore

Pushcart thanks Philip Schultz and The Writers Studio for a packed reading by Lisa Bellamy, Chen Chen, Cally Fiedorek, Edward Hirsch and Diane Williams celebrating the new PPXLlV at the Strand NYC on Friday. The 2020 PP arrives in bookstores next month. Reserve your copy now.

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Kim Chinquee for her story "I Fugure" (Noon) featured in PPXLlll, 20l9 edition, now at your local library or bookstore.

Editors of small presses, please note: nominations for the next Pushcart Prize are due by December l. See the Pushcart website for details.

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Lisa Taddeo for her story "A Suburban Weekend" (Granta) featured in PPXLlll (20l9 edition) now at your local library or bookstore.

"I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember." Ellen Glasgow

The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Daniel Tobin for his poem "The White Road" (Plume) featured in PPXLlll (20l9 edition) now at your local library or bookstore.