Our Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honoured literary project in America. They welcome up to six nominations (print or online) from little magazine and small book press editors throughout the world, and selected winners will appear in their annual publication. (Learn more about it here)
We are very pleased to be nominating six different pieces from our 2020 library.
Neil B. Bishop for Lassoing the Stars
Holly Ducarte for Black Worm
Tye Kraimer for Seven Rinses
J. R. Patterson for Blood Red
Mitchell Toews for The Margin of the River
Terence Young for Daily Bread
Congratulations to all our nominees! Decisions are in the hands of the Pushcart team. Good luck to everyone!
Neil B. Bishop is a Canadian educator, translator, and writer. He was born in B.C. and raised mostly in Saskatchewan; he has also lived in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland, and France. The Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French awarded him both its Best Scholarly Article and Best Scholarly Book prizes. He was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for his translation of Death of the Spider (original: La mort de l’araignée by M. Mailhot, introduction by Marie-Claire Blais) and won First Prize in the prestigious John Dryden International Literary Translation Competition for his translations of poems from A. Perrot-Bishop’s En Longues rivières cachées. Neil Bishop has published his poetry and fiction in French and English, including in the journals Grain, The Chelsea Journal, Brèves, and Marseille
Holly Ducarte is a creative writer and award-winning poet from Canada. She has two published poetry chapbooks titled Hiding Bones and Confetti Confessions. Holly’s first novel, The Light Over Broken Tide, was published March 2018 under Black Ladder Publishing and has received much praise from readers all over the world. Her writing has been featured in magazines, book subscription boxes, over various social media sites, and on Wattpad's featured list. When Holly isn’t writing, she enjoys the simple things in life, like cuddling with her family, collecting antiques, listening to music, sipping a nice cup of coffee or tea, prayer journaling, and going for nature walks. Holly currently resides in Alberta with her husband, daughter, and two cats..
Tye Kraimer is an emerging writer and filmmaker based in Toronto, interested in embodied stories of becoming tied to specific environmental contexts. Her multimedia process includes poetry, prose, and film; her work has been featured in local literary magazines and film festivals. Her forthcoming novel, Thumb, follows a woman forced to choose between the life she wants and everything she has.
J. R. Patterson was raised on a beef and cattle farm in Manitoba, Canada. His publications include fiction, journalism, and literary criticism. At work on his first novel, he divides his time between Scotland, Canada, and Portugal. He work can be found at jrpatterson.ca.
Mitchell Toews lives and writes at Jessica Lake in Manitoba. When an insufficient number of, “We are pleased to inform you…” emails are on hand, he finds alternative joy in the windy intermingling between the top of the water and the bottom of the sky or skates on the ice until he can no longer see the cabin.
Mitch’s writing has appeared in CommuterLit, Fiction on the Web, Literally Stories, Storgy, Fictive Dream, Cabinet of Heed, Fabula Argenta, Pulp Literature, Quail Bell, Lunate Fiction, Riddle Fence, Agnes & True, and more, including a number of anthologies. Details at his website, Mitchellaneous.com.
Terence Young lives in Victoria, British Columbia. He is a co-founder and former editor of The Claremont Review, a literary journal for younger writers. His most recent book is a collection of poetry, Smithereens, forthcoming from Harbour Publishing in 2021.
