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The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976, hundreads of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry, and essays have been represented in the annual collection.

Glassworks is proud to nominate up to 6 outstanding works per year for this prestigious prize, and has also been selected by guest editors of the series for nominations. 
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2025 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

"Allergic" by Maia Coen | Fiction
"Have You Got the Moon Safe?" by Sarah Harley | Creative Nonfiction
"Jennie" by Emilie Helmbold | Creative Nonfiction
"Feminists on Mars" by Caroline Miller | Poetry
"Anomaly" by Laurel Sharon | Fiction
"Perhaps I Am Too Ambitious When Purchasing Fresh Vegetables" by Zeke Shomler | Poetry

2024 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

"The Pain Scale" by Audrey T. Carroll | Nonfiction
"Tiny Bones" by Mille Kensen | Fiction
"What Would Grow in Hitler's Garden" by Mary Makofske | Poetry
"The Solutions to a Young Woman's Problem" by Alison Matayosian | Nonfiction
"Missing Us During a Downpour in Louisiana" by Reese Menefee | Poetry
"Hurricane Season" by Monica Prince | Poetry

2023 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

"Milkweed Boats" by Joel Best | poetry
"Good Mother" by Katharine Bost | Fiction
"In Bits and Pieces" by Cole Brayfield | Nonfiction
"WASP" by Grace Cornelison | Nonfiction
"Fermat and the Liar" by Marco Etheridge | Fiction
"Pee is for Prejudice" by Zorina Exie Frey | Poetry

2022 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

"Gardening Poem I" by Adrianna Caputo | Poetry
"Ephemera in Five Parts" by Lucinda Cummings | Nonfiction
"#happy" by Rebecca Dimyan | Fiction
"The Vacant Lot" by Jesse Mardian | Fiction
"In Which My Mother Teaches Me" by Claire Scott | Poetry
"In the Melting Pot" by Edytta Wojnar | Poetry

2021 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

"Untitled 2 (Namwick)" by Jason B. Crawford
"White Chickens" by Cymelle Leah Edwards
"Sing" by Ashley Monet Johnson
"The Edge of Every City" by DS Maolalai
"Asian Bones" by Dani Putney
"The South Fork of the Snake" by Will Wells

2020 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

Cherry Preserves by Olga Breydo
Puncher, America, and Fake Ass Jordans by oe Costal
She Who Carries the Water Carries the Fish by Fred Dale
Vigil by Tonya Eberhard
If I could, I would have named myself Honeysuckle by Robin Gow
Top of the Stairs Looking Down by Alexa Gutter

2019 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

Ripe by Elizabeth M. Dalton
When the World Goes Dark by Kaila Lancaster
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Amanda Lara
The Elephant Myth by Jessica E. Lindberg
Pool by J.G. McClure
Preparing Not to Drown by SM Stubbs

2018 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

Fig by Marilyn Hilton
If Considerable Bleeding Occurs by Betsy Housten
Bridgetender by Susanna Lang
At That White Funeral by Casey McConahay

2017 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

Filleting a Lingcod by Evan Bauer
Momma's Famous Somewhere by Stuart Freyer
Asunder by Mary Ann McGuigan
Drift by Will Preston
King David's Butterfly by Paul Sauerteig

2016 ​Pushcart Prize Nominees

Girl with Cherries by Lynn Holmgren
Threads by Jeffrey S. Markovitz
Trapped Bird in Hospital Corridor by Kate Peterson
Camminare a Venezia by JC Reilly

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