Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary award from Pushcart Press , which honors the best "poems, short stories, essays and literary whatever" that were published in editions in the previous year. Editors of magazines and small book publishers are invited to nominate up to six works that they have rated. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.

The founding members were Anaïs Nin , Buckminster Fuller , Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish , Harry Smith , Hugh Fox , Ishmael Reed , Joyce Carol Oates , Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler , Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles , Paul Engle , Ralph Ellison , Reynolds Price , Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris , Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, and William Phillips .

Among the authors early on in the Pushcart Prize anthologies are: Kathy Acker , Steven Barthelme , Rick Bass , Charles Baxter , Bruce Boston , Raymond Carver , Joshua Clover , Junot Díaz , Andre Dubus , William Gass , Seán Mac Falls , William Monahan , Paul Muldoon , Joyce Carol Oates , Tim O'Brien , Lance Olsen , Peter Orner , Kevin Prufer , Kay Ryan , Mona Simpson , Ana Menéndez , and Wells Tower .

Winner after years

• 2012 Pushcart XXXVI
• 2011 Pushcart XXXV
  • Mary Beth Hughes for "Double Happiness" in A Public Space
  • Elliott Holt for "Fem Care" in The Kenyon Review
  • Cheryl Strayed for Munro Country in The Missouri Review
  • Alan Shapiro 's "Indoor Municipal Pool" in the New Ohio Review
  • Sarah Einstein for "Mot" in Ninth Letter
  • Martin Moran for "Illiterate"
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly for "Rome"
  • LS Asekoff for "Hither & Yon" in Plowshares
• 2010 Pushcart XXXIV
  • Ashlee crews for "Birdfeed" at McSweeney's
• 2009 Pushcart XXXIII
• 2008 Pushcart XXXII
• 2007 Pushcart XXXI
• 2006 Pushcart XXX
• 2005 Pushcart XXIX
• 2004 Pushcart XXVIII
• 2003 Pushcart XXVII
  • Mary Jo Bang for
• 2002 Pushcart XXVI
• 2001 Pushcart XXV
• 2000
  • Paul's Toutonghi
• 1999 Pushcart XXIV
  • Renée Ashley
• 1995 Pushcart XX
  • Nora Okja Keller for the short story Mother-Tongue , which became the second chapter of Comfort Woman .
• 1986 Pushcart X
  • Sheila Nickerson for Kodiak Widow
• 1976 Pushcart I.
  • Sheila Nickerson for The Song of the Soapstone Carver

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pushcart Prize website
2. ^ Pushcart Prize website Nomination Process for the Pushcart Prize
3. ↑ UI PROFESSOR HONORED WITH PUSHCART PRIZE . The Spokesman Review. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 4, 2011. 
4. ↑ Francesca Mari: Anthology Review: 'The Pushcart Prize XXXIII' . In: The San Francisco Chronicle , Jan. 7, 2011. 
5. ↑ Los Angeles Times , May 12, 2010, by Carolyn Kellogg Some of the Pushcart Winners for 2011
6. ↑ Henderson, Bill (Ed.) (2008). Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses . New York: WW Norton & Co. ISBN 978-1-888889-48-2
7. ^ Pushcart 2003 Anthology Review
8. ^ Bill (Ed.) Henderson: The Pushcart Prize X: Best of the Small Presses. . Penguin Books, 1986, ISBN 978-0-14-008008-7 ..
9. ^ Bill (Ed.) Henderson: The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses . Harpercollins, 1976, ISBN 978-0-380-00752-3 ..