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 2024 and both the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter 2024 issues of moonShine review. Considering we received more than 750 short stories, essays, and poems this year, six truly represents a select few.
2024 NOMINEES
Congratulations to the Moonshine Review Press Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2024:
- “The End”—short story by Kevin Brown (appeared in moonShine review, Fall/Winter 2024, Volume 20, Issue 2, December 2024)
- “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”—short story by Mary Alice Dixon (appeared in moonShine review, Spring/Summer 2024, Volume 20, Issue 1, Released May 2024)
- “Sonnet for Johnny Mathis” —poem by Johnny Cate (appeared in Kakalak 2024 Anthology of Poets and Artists, November 2024)
- “Encounter at Sao Jorge Castle”—poem by Gary V. Powell (appeared in Kakalak 2024 Anthology of Poets and Artists, November 2024)
- “Upon Hearing U2’s ‘The Sweetest Thing’ at the Harris Teeter in Friendly Center”—poem by Steve Cushman (appeared in Kakalak 2024 Anthology of Poets and Artists, November 2024)
- “Don’t Be So Serious” —poem by Grey Brown (appeared in Kakalak 2024 Anthology of Poets and Artists, November 2024)
Anne M. Kaylor
Executive Editor and Publisher