As the days get shorter and the weather gloomier, we’re staying upbeat with cute animal photos and copious amounts of caffeine, and by reading through our past issues to select nominations for the 2020 Pushcart Prize anthology and for Best Microfiction 2018.
The final decisions weren’t easy. We’ve published so many amazing voices over the last year in issues 14.2 and 15.1 as well as our miCRo series; we had a hard time choosing just fifteen pieces! Nevertheless, we hope you’ll peruse through our nominees and give them some love during this cold and dreary season. (And we look forward to a second round of nominations for the Pushcart from the series’s contributing editors in the spring…)
For the 2020 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses:
- Steve Almond, “Play This Right Kid and You’re the Hero” (fiction; Issue 15.1)
- Jennifer Atkinson, “Why Seek the Dead among the Living?” (poetry; Issue 15.1)
- Richard Hoffman, “D(r)one” (poetry, Issue 15.1)
- Sonja Livingston, “Miracle of the Eyes” (literary nonfiction; Issue 14.2)
- Yxta Maya Murray, “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys” (fiction; Issue 14.2)
- Lindsay Stark, “Hibernation” (fiction; Issue 15.1)
For the Best Microfiction 2018 (all from our miCRo series):
- Amanda Bales, “A Drift: The Year She Moves Back Home”
- Margaret Emma Brandl, “Mukbang”
- Sarah Freligh, “Any Body”
- Joshua Jones, “Icebox”
- Nicole Rivas, “Crumbs”
- Sarah Salway, “Not Sorry”
- Mark Wagenaar, “The Gift”
- Tanya Whiton, “Up”
Congratulations and good luck to all!
