Our Nominations for the 2024 Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is one of the most honoured literary projects 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 2023 library.
Danila Botha for Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness
Daryl Bruce for Gym Class
Finnian Burnett for Lift Capacity
Jessie Carson for The Water That Knows Me Best
Tom Reynolds for Fancy That
Suzanne Rintoul for Maps
Congratulations to all our nominees! Decisions are in the hands of the Pushcart team. Good luck to everyone!
Danila Botha is the author of three critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets, and For All the Men… which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award. Her new collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness will be published in March 2024 by Guernica Editions. She is also the author of the award-winning novel Too Much on the Inside which was recently optioned for film. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published by Guernica in 2025. She’s currently working on her first graphic novel.
Daryl Bruce (he/him) is a recovering dairy farmer turned writer based in Montreal. An emerging voice in queer Canadian prose and poetry, his work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Open Minds Quarterly, and more. Chronically over-caffeinated, he is currently working on his Masters at Concordia University.
Finnian Burnett teaches undergrad English and creative writing. They’ve published in the Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more. In their spare time, Finnian watches a lot of Star Trek and takes their cat for walks in a stroller. Finnian lives in British Columbia with their wife and Lord Gordo, the cat. You can find Finnian on Twitter at @FinnianBurnett and at www.finnburnett.com.
Jessie Carson lives in Almonte, Ontario. She is a writer, a reader, a teacher, and the mother of three boys. Her creative non-fiction has been published in Ars Medica, The MacGuffin, Mutha Magazine, and is forthcoming in an anthology called Don’t Ask: Family Secrets and is most often an inquiry into the themes of motherhood, loss, and how stories live in the body and through generations. Recently, she has been intrigued with fractured non-linear stories as this seems to be the only way some stories can be told.
Tom Reynolds lives in small town Ontario. He has written much and published little. The novella, Break Me, was published in 2011 by Quattro Books, Toronto. Tom is married, on disability, and with one rescue dog..
Suzanne Rintoul is a college professor living in Guelph, Ontario. She has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies, and is the author of Representational Tensions: Intimate Violence in Victorian Print Culture, which explores the representation of woman abuse in nineteenth-century England.
