Pushcart Nominees

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, accepts nominations of prose and poetry from literary magazine and small press editors around the world for its prestigious anthology. Here are our nominations, which represent some of our favorite pieces in SAND from each calendar year. Congratulations to the nominees!

2019

 

Fiction

• “Naked” by Milva McDonald (SAND 20)
• “Nine” by Emi Benn (SAND 20)
• “Endless Soak” by Luke Muyskens (SAND 19)

Poetry

• “Okazaki Fragments” by Kanika Agrawal (SAND 19)
• “Morning” by Megan Sungyoon (SAND 20)
• “new american constitution (terms & conditions)” by Trace Howard DePass (SAND 19)

 

2018

 

Fiction

• “Glittering Dark” by Jeremy Packert Burke (SAND 17)
• “Green Vines” by Zou Jinzhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang (SAND 18)
• “Sweet Blood” by Alex Luke (SAND 18)

Poetry

• “i fatten my fleet/ i pray for meat” by shelley feller (SAND 17)
• “The Hildegard Sequence” by Sarah Payne (SAND 18)

Nonfiction

• “Uncle of Things” by Alexis Smiley Smith (SAND 18)

 

2017

 

Fiction

• “Knowledge” by Christoph Keller (SAND 15)
• “Outbound” by Christopher Cascio (SAND 16)
• “Small Animals” by Ellen Joan Harris (SAND 15, later anthologized in SAND 21)

Poetry

• “With Conception of the World’s Doubts” by Elena Karina Byrne (SAND 16)
• “My Imminent Demise Makes the Headlines the Same Day I Notice How Even Your Front Teeth Are” by Momtaza Mehri (SAND 15, later anthologized in SAND 21)

Nonfiction

• “Thirty-Six Times” by Jodie Noel Vinson (SAND 16, available online here)

2016

 

• “Black Friday” by E.G. Willy (SAND 13)
• “The Day Trip” by J.M. Parker (SAND 14, later anthologized in SAND 21)
• “Brussels, Beckett, Partnership” by Esther Yi  (SAND 14)

• “Boy” by Patrick Kindig (SAND 14)
• “Sonnet 13: Blood, the Blood, Not Blood, Then the Gates” by Ron Riekki (SAND 14)
• Selection from Nothing Happened by Inger Wold Lund (SAND 14, later anthologized in SAND 21)