Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honours the best short stories, poetry and essays published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate six works that they have featured.

The founding editors of the Pushcart Prize include: Anaïs Nin, Gordon Lish, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Fiedler and Ralph Ellison.

Among the writers who were first noticed here are: Raymond Carver, Tim O’Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, Charles Baxter, Andre Dubus, Susan Minot, Mona Simpson, John Irving, Rick Moody, and many more.

StepAway Magazine would like to congratulate our six nominees for the 2012 Pushcart XXXVI:

“Tour, Anti-” by Jaydn DeWald
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/247

“Perfect Stranger” by Gary Glauber
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/597

“Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan” by Kyle Hemmings
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/237

“Füße: Umlauts, Eszetts, A Step” by Matthew Hittinger
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/257

“Promenade” by W.F. Lantry
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/895

“Daybreak” by Richard Thomas
http://stepawaymagazine.com/archives/624