It gives me great pleasure to share the following six stories, which I’ve just yesterday sent to the Pushcart Press for consideration in next year’s Pushcart Prize selections. Whether you’ve given these pieces a read already or are reading them now for the first time, please enjoy these stories and join me in congratulating our very talented nominees!

• Faint, Faint by C.C. Russell – Short Fiction, published 10/11/19
• Jigsaw Puzzle by Robert Boucheron – Short Creative Nonfiction, published 8/16/19
• Bubbe’s Shoes by Gila Fortinsky – Short Creative Nonfiction, published 8/9/19
• The Girls On My Street by Haily Lewis-Eastman – Short Fiction, published 7/25/19
• Gloves by Ellen Birrell – Short Creative Nonfiction, published 6/28/19
• My Old Man’s Suit by Paul Stansbury – Short Fiction, published 1/24/19

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