EditorEach year, Lowestoft Chronicle has the pleasure—and the challenge—of highlighting stand-out voices from the magazine. The Pushcart Prize, with its cherished annual tradition of shining a light on exceptional small press writing, grants each publication just six opportunities to put forward their best. After a great deal of difficult deliberation, the editor has chosen the following pieces for consideration in the Pushcart Prize LI: Best of the Small Presses 2027 volume.
Our Pushcart Prize nominees:
— Les Godasses Émile, by CHRISTIE COCHRELL.
— Death of a Chicken, by MARK JACOBS.
— Gringo Mojado, by B. CRAWFORD.
— Root-bound, by SHARON FRAME GAY.
— Steelhead Fishing before the Ban, by GEORGE MOORE.
— Please Don’t Show Me Your Wound, by DAVID SHAWN KLEIN.
About the Pushcart Prize and How Nominations Work
The Pushcart Prize celebrates some of the most inventive and memorable writing published by small presses each year in the United States. Since its founding in 1976, the prize—affectionately described as honoring “poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot”—has brought wider attention to works that might otherwise go unnoticed outside the small press community.
Editors of literary magazines and indie presses are given the opportunity each year to submit up to six pieces they feel best represent the spirit and quality of their publication. These nominations are sent directly to the Pushcart editorial board, which reviews thousands of submissions from across the country. Being named a Pushcart nominee is itself an honor, reflecting the editor’s deep admiration for a writer’s work, even before the final winners are chosen for inclusion in the forthcoming Pushcart Prize anthology.
Congratulations again to all those nominated, and thank you to every contributor whose work made this year’s choices so rewarding—and so difficult.
