Announcing WLT’s 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominees, by The Editors of WLT

News and Events Photo: Quarantine portrait. Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 22, 2020, by Joseph Rushmore. This photograph accompanied the publication of Rilla Askew's "Cataclysm" in the Summer 2020 issue of World Literature Today. The editors of World Literature Today are delighted to announce our annual shortlist of Pushcart nominations for 2020. The Pushcart Prize anthology gathers the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays published by small-press magazines and book publishers. WLT’s six nominees include: Poetry Saddiq Dzukogi, “There Is No Scar, Only Absence” Major Jackson, “Think of Me, Laughing” Achy Obejas, “Slow” Prose Rilla Askew, “Cataclysm” Anastasia Edel, “Therapy by Living” Catalina Infante Beovic, “Ferns,” trans. Michelle Mirabella The Dzukogi and Jackson poems appeared in our “Black Voices” series, guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw. Askew’s creative nonfiction essay and Infante Beovic’s story appeared in our pandemic series in the Summer 2020 issue and on WLT Weekly, respectively. Congratulations to our nominated writers and translator! This is just a sampling of WLT’s extraordinary content from the past year—as always, choosing from more than a hundred contributors proved exceptionally difficult. As 2020 comes to a close, WLT’s editors would like to thank the many writers, translators, reviewers, contributing editors, University of Oklahoma... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-11-30 21:07:51 UTC ]
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