Our Nominations for the 2025 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 2024 library.
Ace Baker for Ghosts Left On Our Skin
Nettie Marie Magnan for The Margaret Arguments
Gareth Marks for The Ruins
Nick Perry for The Profile
Benjamin Rempel for In Search of Damien
Stephen Sinisi for You Would Have
Congratulations to all our nominees! Decisions are in the hands of the Pushcart team. Good luck to everyone!
Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver, Canada. His short story, “Victory Girl,” won the Storyteller Award, and his poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both his prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards.
Nettie Marie Magnan is a writer turned nurse, turned writer again. Raised on the vast and rural prairie landscape that inspires her stories, it wasn’t until years of nursing that she felt compelled to write about loss, hope, the complexities of human relationships, and the beauty and torment and strangeness of being alive. Stories with a healthy mix of melancholy and optimism are the ones she’s always been drawn to, after all. When she’s not busy working as a nurse or writing sad but optimistic tales, she can be found sketching the pretty elements of the prairie landscape, spending time with her family and cats, failing at both gardening and cooking, and as a lover of antiques, she enjoys volunteering at a local heritage museum.
Gareth Marks is an emerging writer of poetry and short stories from Stratford, Ontario. He studied mathematical physics with a minor in English at the University of Waterloo, and is currently living in the UK where he's pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics.
Nick Perry is a classic combination of schoolteacher and writer from Port Moody, B.C. His work has appeared in publications from Canada to Iceland. He lives his life as if he's already on television.
Benjamin Rempel is a Canadian writer and essayist. Nominated for several literary awards, his work has appeared in The Toronto Star, Blank Spaces, and Fifteen Stories High Anthology, among others. His debut novel, INFECT, was released in June 2024. A graduate of the University of Waterloo, Rempel lives in Collingwood, Ontario, with his family. He can be found at benjaminrempel.com.
Stephen Sinisi is a writer based in Maple, where he lives with his wife and four children (two with fur, two without). He is a lover of espresso, a frequenter of used bookstores, and a very big fan of the Spotify algorithm that knows exactly what he wants to listen to at all times. You can learn more about him at stephensinisi.com.
