2020 Editor’s Choice Award ($1000)
Hot Pink by Susan Mockler
Contest Winners
Every 3 months we run a contest.
Learn More about Our Contest Here
First Place Winners ($500)
- Ballad of the Wren by Luis Garcia Romero
- Dandelion Ghosts by Jen Knox
- Here We Are by Robyn Allers
- Regular John by Dustin Walker
Second Place Winners ($300)
- A Childhood Ago by Amanda White
- Spanish Ham & Cigarettes by Annie Kuster
- The Night Chisel by Phoebe Brueckner
- How I Learned to Read by Kathryn Kulpa
Third Place Winners ($200)
- Kettlebell Kate and Handsome Jake by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
- Mathieu by Stephanie Grella
- Donuts; A Piece of an Image or an Image of a Piece by C.A. Coffing
- Don’t Move by Barbara Ridley
Pushcart Prize Nominations
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, which was established in 1976, showcases a selection of poetry, short stories, and nonfiction in its annual publication. The included works are selected from those nominated by magazine and book editors.
2021
Becoming Roadkill by James Cato
Candy Eucharist by Michelle Bellman
Falling by C.A. Coffing
Growing Season by Molly Weisgrau
Mall, 2004 by Alice Martin
The Night Chisel by Phoebe Brueckner
2020
The Big Ear: A Cautionary Tale by Mary Roher-Dann
Everyone Needs a Little Granny by Anne Howkins
How to Keep from Sinking by Jan Alexander
A Childhood Ago by Amanda White
Ballad of the Wren by Luis Garcia Romero
Promises by Suzanne C Martinez
2019
Birds of Prey by Coco Mellors
A Chicago Story by Megan Catana
Eden by Allison King
In Other Words by Liz Hufford
Luigia and Saint Francis by Nathan Bogart
A Lesson on the Properties of Life by Patrick Lind