Our Pushcart nominations for 2024 are in! At the very last possible second, as is fast becoming tradition here.
In 2024, we published Reckoning 8, our resistance issue, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM. No editor should ever be forced to single out for praise a mere six of the many beautiful and compelling pieces of writing they’ve had the privilege to champion in a year! But we managed nevertheless.
Reckoning 7 is officially out in print and shipping now! Preorders are already on their way. Get your copy here, or ask for it at your local indie bookstore or library. In case you haven’t been following along, it’s a profound, important issue, editors Tim Fab-Eme, Octavia Cade, and Priya Chand and all of us on staff and whose work appears within devoted monumental efforts to it despite adversity, fire and flood, and we really hope you get a chance to appreciate these beautiful stories, poems, essays and art on the theme of oceans and the global water cycle. Thank you so much for the enthusiastic support that made this possible.
Finally, don’t forget that Reckoning 8, edited by SM Waverly and Knar Gavin, is open and accepting submissions now through the equinox on September 22nd. We are actively reading and accepting work on the theme of activism and resistance—a bunch of amazing pieces we are super excited about just in the past few weeks. Thanks to a successful fundraiser last summer, we’ve raised pay rates all around, to 10 cents a word for prose, $50 per page for poetry and interior art, and as always we are eagerly seeking new work from queer, trans, disabled, Indigenous, Black, brown, and otherwise marginalized writers, poets and artists.
It’s December 1st, the last day to postmark nominations for the Pushcart Awards for 2022. The Pushcarts are a long-running, much beloved award for small press literary writing. This is our first time nominating; I’m sure it won’t be the last.
We published two issues this year: Reckoning 6, our regular annual, and a special issue, Our Beautiful Reward, themed on bodily autonomy on the occasion of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. If we’d been allowed to, we would have nominated everything, but we’re only allowed six. Our nominations, selected by our editorial staff from among both issues, are as follows.
“oh to be” by Russell Nichols, poetry, from Reckoning 6
“the Po’ouli” by Grace Wagner, poetry, from Reckoning 6
“Crisis” by Jesse Nee-Vogelman, fiction, from Reckoning 6
“After the Ban” by Linda Cooper, poetry, from Our Beautiful Reward
“fertile week” by Leah Bobet, poetry, from Our Beautiful Reward
