This November, Lowestoft Chronicle made the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024 Edition. As with hundreds of other online magazines, the annual selection process, onerous printing of documents, and waiting in line at USPS has been a labor of love since our founding. A selfless ritual to honor the brilliant writers who bless our magazine with their fine work. Alas, only six can be chosen.
Tag: Robert Wexelblatt
Lowestoft Chronicle recently nominated a number of pieces for the Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins). Although The Best American Travel Writing series was brought to a sudden halt in 2021, other titles in the long-running anthology series still accept submissions. These are our nominations for volume 2023 of the Best American Series.
We are very appreciative of the great writers who have graced our pages over the years. In 2010, we published a couple of works by Hugh … Read More ›
We recently nominated the following pieces from 2021 for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series. Pleasingly, The Best American Essays series editor, Robert Atwan, selected … Read More ›

From captivating journeys across Europe and North America to a beguiling new tale featuring the itinerant peasant-poet Chen Hsi-wei, the bumper winter edition (#44) of … Read More ›
“Wexelblatt’s Hsi-wei Tales is a wonderful fusion of poetry and prose that captivates and holds nuggets of wisdom far beyond the fortune cookie kind. The … Read More ›
Last month, we made the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize (for poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels published by little … Read More ›
“Distinguished fiction writer, essayist, and professor of humanities at Boston University, Robert Wexelblatt skillfully merges musical composition and creative writing to produce a highly inventive … Read More ›