The Pushcart Prize 2024 is back with its new edition. Submit your nominations by December 1, 2023, without paying any entry fee!
Pushcart Press is devoted to writers, small presses and non-commercial publishing. Pushcart Press was founded by Bill Henderson from a studio apartment in Yonkers, New York in 1972.
A soon to be ex-editor at Doubleday Co., Henderson invested his tiny savings in the revolutionary The Publish It Yourself Handbook (1973) and distributed it by foot and auto.
This collection of essays by Anais Nin, Stewart Brand, Virginia and Leonard Woolf and twenty others sold over 70,000 copies in four editions and was one of the keystones of the modern small press revolution.
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honoured literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in their annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses.
The Pushcart Prize has been a labour of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the ’60s and ’70s. Their legacy is assured by donations to their Fellowships endowment.
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