THE PUSHCART PRIZE
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, has received praise as the most honored literary project in America, including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Published since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry, and essays have been represented in its annual collections.
NOMINATION PROCESS
As the executive editor of this small independent press, I can nominate a total of six pieces for the Pushcart Prize. Before deciding this year’s Pushcart Nominees, I reviewed Kakalak 2023 and both the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter 2023 issues of moonShine review. Considering we received well over 700 short stories, essays, and poems this year, six truly represents a select few.
2023 NOMINEES
Congratulations to the Moonshine Review Press Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2023:
- “Open Water”—short story by Kathryn Etters Lovatt (appeared in moonShine review, Fall/Winter 2023, Volume 19, Issue 2)
- “This Time”—short story by LJ Hippler (appeared in moonShine review, Fall/Winter 2023, Volume 19, Issue 2)
- “Eve knee-deep in kumquats in the garden of temptation”—poem by Lucinda Trew (appeared in Kakalak 2023 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
- “Plenty”—poem by Karen Luke Jackson (appeared in Kakalak 2023 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
- “Welcome to the Neighborhood”—poem by John Desjarlais (appeared in Kakalak 2023 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
- “Forever a Semicolon” —poem by Lucia Walton Robinson (appeared in Kakalak 2023 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
Anne M. Kaylor
Executive Editor and Publisher