Each year, Pushcart Press accepts nominations from magazine and small book press editors throughout the world for the Pushcart Prize. Editors can nominate poetry, essays,… Read More »Announcing Our 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations
By Alex Grehy Two events of small significance took place in 1965: the Good Housekeeping Institute reprinted its cookery book, and I was born. In… Read More »The Joys of an Old Cookery Book + Alex Grehy’s Christmas Pudding Recipe
By Rebekah Morris Content warning: rape, child sexual abuse My Grandma Betty had a secret. The kind of secret that haunts you to your grave,… Read More »When Women Were Birds There Were No Secrets
By T. C. Anderson When I began developing my work The Forest as an art installation a few months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, its… Read More »Writing from the Inside: My Parallel Storytelling Journey with Bo Burnham
By Quinn Forlini My sophomore English class was starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey when I was going to have surgery.… Read More »Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in a Fog of Medication
Nora Boyle is a poet, farmer, beekeeper, and witch who consumes coffee by the cauldron-full. She is the founder of Lady Book Witch Press, based… Read More »Lady Book Witch Press Founder Nora Boyle on Delving Into Grief and Family Secrets in Her Poetry
Sheleen McElhinney is a poet/baker living in Pennsylvania with her family. Her debut book, Every Little Vanishing, was published in October 2021 with Write Bloody… Read More »Sheleen McElhinney on Treating Grief as a Houseguest (and Writing Poems About It)
By Mary DeCarlo “______ makes me happy,” read a homework assignment I was given as a kindergartener. (Fill in the blank and draw a picture.)… Read More »My Year of Stress and Isolation: Reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation in Spring 2020
Judas Ātman (he/they) is a queer, mixed-race, South/Southeast Asian diasporic artist born and raised in San Francisco, California, and now based in New York City.… Read More »Judas Ātman on Exploring Forgiveness and Liminal Spaces Through Poetry
By Mariah Eppes “Strange, the way we look into each other’s eyes on a Sunday afternoon like this, as if we had something to say… Read More »The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories