The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.
Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize Anthologies were: Kathy Acker, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Bruce Boston, Raymond Carver, Joshua Clover, Andre Dubus, Seán Mac Falls, William Monahan, Paul Muldoon, Tim O'Brien, Peter Orner, Kay Ryan, and Mona Simpson.
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