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Publisher rejecting early poetry manuscript by Emily Dickinson (1862): "Queer -- the rhymes were all wrong."
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The Pushcart Prize editors thank the hundreds of small presses from around the world for their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLVI, to be published next Fall. Announcements will be in the mail in May to selected presses. Thank you all for keeping the light on in dark times.
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The Pushcart Prize editors thank the hundreds of presses worldwide that sent in nominations for the next PP. We will make announcements in May. In the meantime, the 2024 PPXLVIII is available at your independent bookstore, Bookshop or WW Norton. ....Blessings, courage
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The Pushcart Prize editors thank the hundreds of presses from around the globe for your PPXLVll nominations. Announcements will be sent in May to selected authors and presses. November is pub date. Right now PPXLVl (2022 edition) is at your bookstore, 65 writers,5l presses.
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The Pushcart Prize editors thank the hundreds of little magazines and small book presses worldwide that made nominations for PPXLVIII . Letters about selected work will be mailed in May; a general announcement will be made in fall . Such great energy, passion. Thank you.
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A reminder to editors: the December 1 postmark deadline is coming up soon for Pushcart Prize XLVIIl. Details on our web site.
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Alert to small press editors: December 1 postmark is the deadline for your Pushcart Prize XLVII nominations. Please consult our website for details and postal address.
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Editors of small presses, please note: nominations for the next Pushcart Prize are due by December l. See the Pushcart website for details.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate the 72 authors from 47 presses featured in Pushcart Prize XLlV, (2020 edition), now at your local independent bookstore or other sources-- the thoughtful gift for every writer and reader.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Raven Leilani for the story "Breathing Exercise" (Yale Review) featured in PPXLVI (2022 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or W.W. Norton & Co.
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Editors alert: letters announcing selections for the next Pushcart Prize (XLVlll),to be published in fall of this year , will be mailed in a few days. Please check your postal mail. More than 40 presses are represented and will receive letters. Thank you.
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Alert to editors: your nominations for Pushcart Prize XLVIII will be accepted between October 1 and December 1 (postmarks). Six works from your 2022 publications to POB 380, Wainscott, NY 11975. See PP website for details. "A treasure and a treasury" Publishers Weekly.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Tiana Clark for her poem "BBHMM" (The Journal) featured in PPXLlll (20l9 edition) now at your local bookstore or library. "I hate it when people/talk about black artists being capitalists..."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann
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Editors: announcements about the Pushcart Prize XLVII (November pub date) will be in the mail on May 1. If your address has changed in the last 6 months because of the pandemic, please let us know.
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Note to Editors: starting on October 1 and lasting until December 1 (postmarks) nominations for Pushcart Prize XLVII will be accepted at Pushcart Press, PO Box 380, Wainscott, NY ll975 USA. For nominating info, please see the Pushcart Prize web site.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Ross Gay for the poem "A Small Needful Fact" (Word Press) featured in PPXLVI (2022 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library, or WW Norton Co.
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Now at your independent bookstore: the new Pushcart Prize XLVII (2023), 68 brilliant stories, poems, essays and memoirs from 48 presses. "A resplendent multiplicity." Booklist. The holiday gift for writers and readers.
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Editors: 49 presses with reprints in the next Pushcart Prize have been sent notices as of May 1. Please check your postal mail. More honors will be announced on our November pub date. The current PP (2022 edition) is now at your independent bookstore, library or WW Norton Co.
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Note to small press editors: notices of selections for Pushcart Prize XLVl (2022 edition) have just been mailed. If your office is in lockdown, please check. PPXLVl will be a wonderful edition, published next November. Thanks to all of you out there for keeping the faith.
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Pushcart's "Call for Nominations" for the 46th Pushcart Prize is in the mail to editors. If your office is in lockdown please follow nominating instructions on our website . Deadline is December 1 . Election mail interruptions may happen. Send early ?
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"On Rejection: remember that you are a pilgrim on a sacred journey -- get up and start walking again." Luke Walton
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"Small presses keep great literature alive in this age of chameleons and yahoos," Bill Henderson in the Introduction to Pushcart Prize XLII (20l8 edition) at your bookseller now.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate McKenna Marsden for the story "Suffering In Motion" (New England Review) featured in PPXLVI (2022 edition) now at your independent bookstore.
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"If I was waiting for confidence to write, I'd still be waiting." Roxane Gay
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Ilya Kaminsky for the poem "In A Time of peace" ( Terminus) featured in PPXLVI (2022 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or W.W. Norton & Co.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Leila Chatti for the poem "The Rules" (Poem-a-Day) celebrated in Pushcart Prize XLV (2021 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or W.W. Norton Co.
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"I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer." Denise Levertov
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Publisher rejecting Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (1855) : "We deem it injudicious to commit ourselves."
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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life ." Mary Oliver
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Anthony Doerr for the story "The Master's Castle" (Tin House), featured in PPXLV (2021 edition) now at your local independent bookstore , library or other sources.
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"Small presses are the backbone of the national literature." -- Raymond Carver, from the Introduction to Pushcart Prize XLII (2018 edition)
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Holly Singlehurst for the poem "On Agate Beach" (iamb) featured in PPXLVI (2022 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or WW Norton Co.
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Pushcart Prize XLV (2021 edition) arrives at your independent bookstore or other sources soon. Rave advance reviews. Reserve your copy now. Editors, don't forget the December 1 (postmark) for PPXLVI nominations.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Julia Armfield for the story "Longshore Drift" (Granta) featured in PPXLV (2021 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or W.W. Norton Co.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Maggie Smith for her poem "Parachute" (Pleiades) featured in the new PPXLlll (20l9 edition) now at your local independent bookstore.
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Nomination letters from our 196 Distinguished Pushcart Prize XLVI Contributing Editors will be in the mail next week to nominated writers. Please check your mailbox. Acceptances to small press editors in May. The fabulous 2021 edition is at your independent bookstore now.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Carolyn Forche for her poem "The Boatman"(Poetry) featured in PPXLll (20l8 edition) at your independent bookstore or other sources now. "I find myself now the boatman, driving a taxi at the end / of the world...."
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced that the Pushcart Press and Pushcart Prize have received the annual "Distinguished Service to The Arts" award. More info at the Academy website. Bill thanks the thousands of writers and editors who helped over the decades.
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"We small presses are not back in the era when non-commercial writers wrote for their desk drawers only. This is a true, quiet revolution. Let's keep it." Bill Henderson, Introduction to the new 20l9 Pushcart Prize XLlll, now at your bookstore, a gift for writers and readers.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Jess Walter for his story "Famous Actor" (Tin House), featured in PPXLll (20l8 edition) now at your local independent bookstore or other sources. "I disliked him from the moment I decided to sleep with him..."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." Martin Luther King Jr.
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Pushcart is on Twitter vacation. PPXLVIII , the 2024 edition, will be published in December and we will begin to gather the next PP celebration this fall . Meanwhile the glorious 2023 edition is at your independent bookstore, Bookshop or WW Norton. Blessings, courage to you.
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Now at your independent bookstore or other sources, the 2021 Pushcart Prize XLV: 64 brilliant stories, essays, poems and memoirs from 54 presses. Rave advance reviews and other details follow in weeks ahead.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Allegra Hyde for her story"The Future Consequences of Present Actions" (Gettysburg Review), featured in PPXLII (20l8 edition) ,now at your independent bookstore or other sources. "If a door is locked, a boy must not go on rattling ..."
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The Pushcart Prize has changed the face of American literary publishing and has given untold numbers of young writers a boost." Charles Baxter in the Introduction to PP XLII (20l8 edition). At your bookseller now.
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A town isn't a town without a bookstore. Neil Gaiman
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Solmaz Sharif for her poem "Desired Appreciation" (Kenyon Review, Graywolf Press) featured in PPXLll (20l8 edition),at your independent bookstore now. "Until now ...all my Muse's poetry has been harmless:/ American and diplomatic..."
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In the new Pushcart Prize XLII: 7l brilliant stories, poems, essays and memoirs from 53 presses. The 20l8 Edition is at your bookseller now.
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"You have only to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." Mary Oliver
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"I write a lot -- every day, seven days a week -- and I throw a lot away. Sometimes I think I write to throw away: it's a process of distillation." Donald Barthelme
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"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us." Franz Kafka
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"A trove of fine writing" says Publishers Weekly about the new Pushcart Prize XLV (2021 edition), now at your independent bookstore or other sources. 64 stunning stories, poems and essays from 54 small presses. The gift that lasts all year long.
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"People who believe in absurdities will eventually commit atrocities." Voltaire
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." Jules Renard
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Pushcart is on summer twitter break. The Pushcart Prize XLVll (2023 edition) can be preordered from WW Norton Co. prior to our November pub date: 68 brilliant stories, poems and essays from 49 presses. "Revered among writers...High honors," American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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"I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love." Wendell Berry
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Maia Jenkins for her story "The Almadraba" (Threepenny Review) featured in PPXLlV (2020 edition) now at your local independent bookstore or other sources.
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Some dates: December 1 (postmark) is the final date for small press editors to make nominations for the next Pushcart Prize, to be published next Fall. No forms to fill out, no fees. See the Pushcart Prize website for details.
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." Jules Renard (Pushcart)
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. @JoyceCarolOates has been awarded a Pushcart Prize 2016 for "The Childhood of the Reader," from @_conjunctions !
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"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." Zelda Fitzgerald
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"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write." Gertrude Stein
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Just arrived: the Publishers Weekly rave review for PP XLVII (November pub)."This rich anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry -- the product of hundreds of small press nominations -- runs broad and deep....This annual volume is both a treasure and a treasury."
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The Pushcart Prize editors thank Idra Novey, Katie Farris and Jen Silverman for their brilliant work in Yale Review, American Poetry Review and The Sun, featured in PPXLVII (2023 edition), now at your independent bookstore or W.W. Norton Co.
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"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann
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Publisher rejecting "Animal Farm" by George Orwell (l945): " It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA."
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"If you can't write every day, try to remain connected, sort of like children who keep their mittens attached to their coats." Meg Wolitzer
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"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." Jorge Luis Borges
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Molly Giles, Janice Harrington, and Dorianne Laux for brilliant work from Leap Frog, James Dickey Review and Alaska Quarterly featured in PPXLVII (2023 edition) now at your independent bookstore, or WW Norton Co.
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"And so we dedicate this Pushcart Prize to our writing friend Barack Obama. Not the politician, not the President -- the writer, who respects what words mean and can do." from the Introduction to PPXLll (20l8 edition) by Bill Henderson
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Publisher rejecting "Poems" by William Butler Yeats (1895): "That he has any real paying audience I find hard to believe."
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"Fiction is about everything human and we are made of dust and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction." Flannery O'Connor
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Reginald Dwayne Betts for his poem "When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving "(Poetry), featured in PPXLll (20l8 edition) now at your independent bookstore or other sources."In the backseat of my car are my own sons...not yet Tamir's age.."
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Editor rejecting Nabokov's Lolita: " I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years."
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"I have had many, many rejections. If you want to write it your own way, that is the chance you take." Marchette Chute
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The difference between the right word and a nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Peter Orner for the story "Fall River Wife" (The Southern Review) featured in PPXLV (2021 edition) now at your independent bookstore, library or W.W. Norton Co.
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"Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." Kathleen Norris
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Pushcart's Editors Book Award considers manuscripts rejected by profit driven, bottom line conglomerates. Send manuscript to POB 380, Wainscott, NY 11975 WITH LETTER of appreciation from the rejecting editor by January 1, 2022. See Pushcart Prize web site for more info.
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Editors: beware of chatbot poems, stories, and essays. These are frauds. Whoever generates them should have their plug pulled permanently.
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The Pushcart Prize is " a truly remarkable collection of the finest small press poems, essays and short fiction." Booklist
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Robert Cording, Alice McDermott and Lisa Low for brilliant selections from The Common, Sewanee Review and Ecotone featured in PPXLVll (2023 Edition) now at your independent bookstore, Bookshop or WW Norton Co.
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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are." W. Somerset Maugham
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good." W. Somerset Maugham
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Today is Mary Oliver's birthday. Happy birthday Mary, still with us from the great mystery.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Jamaica Baldwin, Isaac Yuen and Brandon Taylor for brilliant selections from Rhino, Agni and Yale Review featured in PPXLVII (2023 edition) now at your independent bookstore, Bookshop or WW Norton Co.
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The Pushcart Prize editors congratulate Brionne Janae, Kim Chinquee, and Kate Osana Simonian for resplendent work from American Poetry Review, Post Road and Iowa Review featured in PPXLVII (2023 edition) now at your independent bookstore, or WW Norton
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"Reading a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." Jean Paul
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Our 1st Pushcart 2017 post: Dominica Phetteplace ( @fetaplace ) has been awarded a Pushcart Prize! ( @zyzzyvamag )
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"Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it." Editor Maxwell Perkins, advice to a writer.
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