NightBallet Press is pleased once again to participate in the nominations
process for the 38th Annual Pushcart
Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXVIII,
which will be published both in hardcover and paperback in late fall 2013.
As editor of a small press, I was invited to make up to six nominations
from work published by my press since December of last year (2011), or from a
manuscript about to be published in the coming month. If selected, both the press and the author
will receive a copy of the Pushcart Prize book.
The deadline to nominate was December 1st. Notification of selection for Pushcart Prize
inclusion will be in April of 2013.
It was extremely difficult for me to choose among the numerous excellent, unique, exciting and delectable poems, short stories, and plays that NBP has had the pleasure and honor of publishing this past year. I truly struggled with the final decisions. After all, I'm the one who accepted the works to publish in the first place because I loved them. But to waffle and decline to nominate because I don't want to make hard and fast choices would be unfair to all those whom I've published. I feel I have an editor's responsibility to participate. After all, I've promised you respect, readings, reviews, and recognition wherever and whenever possible.
Please know that if your work was not nominated, it had nothing to do with merit. Your work deserved nomination, no doubt. Your work is truly excellent, or it would never have appeared as a NBP publication. As far as I'm concerned, you're all winners!
But there were certain pieces that glistened, reverberated, ensnared, transcended, or just plain persisted in the editor's mind/heart/soul/body. These are the six pieces that are this year's nominees:
Jack McGuane's poem "Deep Purple Desperado" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
Terry Provost's poem "Consolations for a Cleveland Winter" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
Steve Brightman's poem "Sputter and Fuse" from Sometimes, Illinois.
Jim Lang's poem "10 26 03 sexualize" from Coyote Moon.
Elise Geither's short play/prose poem "The Stone" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
and
John Burroughs's poem/performance piece "Lens " from the very-soon-to-be-forthcoming The Eater of the Absurd.
I hope you will join with me in heartily and joyfully congratulating these six who are nominated by NBP this year!
For more information on the Pushcart Prize, please visit www.pushcartprize.com; for more information on Pushcart Press visit www.pushcartpress.org. For this year's Pushcart Prize collection, or for past years' collections, go to www.Amazon.com. And keep in mind that there will be numerous opportunities to participate in NBP publications next year, including in at least two anthologies (the theme for the 2013 NBP anthology will be announced around the New Year’s holiday, so stay tuned).
It was extremely difficult for me to choose among the numerous excellent, unique, exciting and delectable poems, short stories, and plays that NBP has had the pleasure and honor of publishing this past year. I truly struggled with the final decisions. After all, I'm the one who accepted the works to publish in the first place because I loved them. But to waffle and decline to nominate because I don't want to make hard and fast choices would be unfair to all those whom I've published. I feel I have an editor's responsibility to participate. After all, I've promised you respect, readings, reviews, and recognition wherever and whenever possible.
Please know that if your work was not nominated, it had nothing to do with merit. Your work deserved nomination, no doubt. Your work is truly excellent, or it would never have appeared as a NBP publication. As far as I'm concerned, you're all winners!
But there were certain pieces that glistened, reverberated, ensnared, transcended, or just plain persisted in the editor's mind/heart/soul/body. These are the six pieces that are this year's nominees:
Jack McGuane's poem "Deep Purple Desperado" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
Terry Provost's poem "Consolations for a Cleveland Winter" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
Steve Brightman's poem "Sputter and Fuse" from Sometimes, Illinois.
Jim Lang's poem "10 26 03 sexualize" from Coyote Moon.
Elise Geither's short play/prose poem "The Stone" from Lipsmack! A Sampler Platter of Poets from NightBallet Press Year One 2012
and
John Burroughs's poem/performance piece "Lens " from the very-soon-to-be-forthcoming The Eater of the Absurd.
I hope you will join with me in heartily and joyfully congratulating these six who are nominated by NBP this year!
For more information on the Pushcart Prize, please visit www.pushcartprize.com; for more information on Pushcart Press visit www.pushcartpress.org. For this year's Pushcart Prize collection, or for past years' collections, go to www.Amazon.com. And keep in mind that there will be numerous opportunities to participate in NBP publications next year, including in at least two anthologies (the theme for the 2013 NBP anthology will be announced around the New Year’s holiday, so stay tuned).
