2016 Pushcart Prize Nominees

The Worcester Review has selected its 2016 Pushcart Prize Nominees. 

In no particular order, the nominees are:

Karen Sharpe, "Neutrals"

Henry Walters, "Milkman"

Renee Bibby, "Than All the Treasures"

Heather Treseler, "Voyeur in June"

Judy Kaber, "Elvers"

Hu Xian / Zhang Ziqing / Rodger Martin, "Chinese Wolfberry"

Best of luck to all our nominees!

Pushcart Nominees

With no further ado, may I announce the 2015 Pushcart Nominees from The Worcester Review!



Poetry:

Polly Brown, “Mike Talks to Abe”

James McKee, “Home”

Jon Volkmer, “Vigil”

Len Krisak, “Verona: Sonnet #2”



Fiction:

Jarrett Kaufman, “The Son”



Congratulations and good luck to all!

Pushcart Prize XL Nominees

Each year, editors of literary magazines are invited to nominate up to six selections published in that calendar year for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology. This year, the Pushcart Prize celebrates its 40th anniversary.

The Worcester Review has nominated the following pieces from Volume 35 (2014):

"Rules for Telling a Ghost Story" -- Tom Howard
"Cancer" -- Dmitry Berenson
"Verum and Factum" -- Michael Trocchia
"A Hike" -- Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia
"The Loneliness of the Heart is Forever" -- Helen Marie Casey
"Two Men and a Gun" -- Frank Scozzari

Congratulations to all nominees and best of luck!

Pushcart Nominees

Congratulations to the 2013 Pushcart Nominees from Volume XXXIV of The Worcester Review.

 

In order of appearance in The Review:

 

"Gutting" by Colin Dekkeersgieter

"The Fishing Village" by Dmitry Berenson
"Essay Questions" by Kelley Jean White

"In the Truck" by Fred Yannantuono

"Cool Jazz" by Fern G. Z. Carr

  

Best of luck to all nominees!

Congratulations Pushcart Prize Nominees

This year’s Pushcart Prize nominees from  

The Worcester Review are:

Poetry:

“Because” by Rafaella Del Bourgo

“In Velvet” by Marian Willmott

“To Vocabulary” by Alan Feldman

“You Go Now” by Larsen Bowker

“Gingkoes” by Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction:

“When the Aliens Come Back” by Timothy Mudie

Congratulations to all nominees, and best of luck!