Updated 11/19/2025
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Our 2025 Pushcart Nominees
NOMINATION PROCESS
As an independent press, we can nominate a total of six pieces for the Pushcart Prize. Before deciding on the 2025 Pushcart Nominees, we reviewed Kakalak 2025 and the 2025 Anniversary issue of moonShine review. Considering we received more than 900 short stories, essays, and poems throughout the year, six truly represents a select few.
2025 NOMINEES
Congratulations to the Moonshine Review Press Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2025:
- “Travelers”—short story by Kathryn Etters Lovatt (appears in 2025 moonShine review, anniversary issue, Volume 21)
- “Death Futures”—short story by Jane Shlensky (appears in 2025 moonShine review, anniversary issue, Volume 21)
- “Playing Catch” —short story by Steve Cushman (appears in 2025 moonShine review, anniversary issue, Volume 21)
- “Tradwives”—poem by Shannon Purdy Jones (appears in Kakalak 2025 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
- “I Bought a Lawn Edger”—poem by Les M. Brown (appears in Kakalak 2025 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
- “Vermin” —poem by Catherine Carter (appears in Kakalak 2025 Anthology of Poets and Artists)
ABOUT THE PUSHCART
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.
