Vote on Pushcart Prize Nominations

Each year, “The Pushcart Prize – Best of the Small Presses” is published to recognize writers whose short stories, poetry and essays have been sent out into the world that year. Writers who were first noticed in the series include Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Susan Minot and John Irving. For the first time, we’re nominating some of the works published in Deep South for the prize. We have to mail in up to six nominations by December 1, so please help us narrow down the Southern works that have appeared in our pages this past year by voting below. The six works that receive the most votes will be sent to Pushcart Press for consideration for the prize.

UPDATE: The poll is now closed and the six winning works on their way to the post office. Click here to see the final results! 

(To read the works up for nomination, scroll down past the poll and click on their links.)

Click on the links to read:

Hydrobiology of 5 Tubs by Deb Moore

Road to Caledonia by Howard Reeves

Where to Go from Here by Kayla Smith

Mississippi Speaks, a poem by Sandra Bounds

Middle of Nowhere by Carol O’Dell

Long Distance by Kathleen Lewis

Salina, Kansas by Emma Susannah Morrison (scroll down to second short)

Seersuckered, a poem by Beau Boudreaux

Lovebug Seasons, a poem by John Davis Jr.

Same Stars, Different Houses, a poem by Wynne Huddleston