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Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2023
After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize below. Good luck to these talented writers who...
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- Oct 28, 2022
- 2 min
The Girl Who Was Afraid to Die, by Gabrielle Skerpan
There once was a girl who was afraid to die. The fear knotted her stomach and caused her to shake. Her tears ran dry, and she could do...
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- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
Radio II, by Alexander Eikenberg
From the passenger’s seat you reach over and turn on the radio. With the windows down at sixty-five the sound is stifled out of hearing...
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- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Sunflower, by Lauren Schaumburg
Freckles dappling skin, how long can you lie in the sunshine before the burn comes to lay waste to your flesh? How long can you stand to...
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- Jul 13, 2022
- 1 min
Caspian Sea, by Leila Farjami
Once, she held me in her rippling arms, soft Mother, breathing her buoyant, murmuring life into my little body. Her shores stretched like...
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- Jun 19, 2022
- 7 min
We Talk about the Wind, by Alexis David
The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water.
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- Feb 14, 2022
- 5 min
Moonshadow, by Barbara Long
Melba held the moon in her hand, caressing it gently, opening and closing her palm around the silvery sheen. It often slipped in through...
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- Feb 9, 2022
- 1 min
If I Could, by Kimberly Barbour
If she could write you a letter, she would say that she tried. She’d apologize for lying, but it’s all she knew. Lies, and want, and him....
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805lit
- Jan 19, 2022
- 10 min
On the Road to Fayetteville, by Tom Wade
In early 1972, I stayed for a short while with my parents in Kansas City after spending the previous year and a half as a volunteer poverty
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805lit
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
Lake Leavings, by Brinson Leigh Kresge
I. A three-year-old’s preamble: Let’s talk about ants. Ants can walk. Ants don’t have feet. Ants have feet...
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805lit
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Home is Here, by Mary Luna Robledo
The magnolia raises her petals, Embraced by the Carolina sun. Skins soaks in its rays, darkens by the afternoon Like honey tempting the...
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 5 min
Liminal Spaces, by Gwendolin McCrea
The summer that I was seventeen, I worked for my uncle and aunt at their rustic cabin resort in northern Minnesota. They gave me my own...
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- Sep 8, 2021
- 6 min
In Kitchens We Trust, by Sarah Munn
Phone calls to the kitchen during service were a nuisance, so I was gruff when I answered. I regret that now. “Kitchen. Chef.” “Raych,...
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- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
Summer Hunt, by Edward Valladao
When we were young We treasure hunted Under plum trees For what our arms Couldn’t reach, Our joy ripening As we picked Amongst the mushy...
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
Maami, by Phebe Emmanuel
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Stars Don't Discriminate, by Olivia Cai
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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- Jun 16, 2021
- 1 min
Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis
At the very bottom of my bathtub, there is a space for the darkness. It exists for the dark ...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 2 min
Gracie's Gift, by Lindsey Morrison Grant
I did not have any kinship with plants of any kind growing up. My experience was all vicarious. I was envious of my grandmother's ability...
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- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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- Apr 21, 2021
- 1 min
Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland
topless in the grey light of the master bath, accompanied by store-bought seashells and soaps, a painting of dune grass, remember how we...
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