Our Nominations for the 2023 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 magazines 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 2022 library.
Owen Day for The Absence Of
Joel Fishbane for Liner Notes to “The Other Man” (original studio cast recording)
Désirée Jung for Dispatches from the Womb
Pauline Peters for Sandalwood
Celia Richard for No Business Caring About
Dustin Ruth for For You, Anything
Congratulations to all our nominees! Decisions are in the hands of the Pushcart team. Good luck to everyone!
Owen Day is a Canadian writer studying in San Francisco, wishing they could go back home. They are currently studying to receive a master's degree from the Academy of Art. They explore the boundaries of sexuality, gender, and mental health, often wrapping them in a coating of fantasy as otherwise they would get too sad and fall over.
Joel Fishbane is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose novel The Thunder of Giants is available from St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has been widely published and is available on sensible websites everywhere. For links and to see what else he’s up to, visit www.joelfishbane.net.
Désirée Jung is an artist born in Brazil, and adopted by Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. She has also participated in several artist residencies. Her education includes a film degree from Vancouver Film School, a BFA in Creative Writing, an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature, all from the University of British Columbia. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found in her website: www.desireejung.com
Pauline Peters is an African-Canadian writer living in Toronto. She has been published in Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, Room, The Fiddlehead, The Nashwaak Review, and The Windsor Review. She was short-listed for the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition sponsored by Exile Quarterly and her chapbook The Salted Woman was published this year by the British publisher Hedgespoken Press.
Celia Richard The intricacies of the human connection are what motivate Celia Richard to write. Whether a brief encounter with a stranger or the deep knowing of being with a loved one, she is inspired by the daily intimacies we all experience but rarely discuss. She has been journalling since she was a child and has kept it as a private practice until recently sharing stories and personal essays for publication.
Dustin Ruth is a former journalist now living in B.C. He always wanted to be a writer and has decided to give this whole writing thing another go.
