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Announcing WLT’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees, by Daniel Simon News and Events [email protected] Mon, 12/02/2024 - 14:06 Top row (left to right): Santiago Acosta, Chantha Nguon, Rina Garcia Chua. Bottom row: Erica N. Cardwell, Leila Guerriero, Pádraig Ó TuamaEven as the editors of World Literature Today look ahead to 2025, anticipating our ninety-ninth year of continuous publication, we are delighted to announce WLT’s shortlist of Pushcart nominees for 2024. Pushcart Prize L, the fiftieth anthology in the esteemed series, will honor the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays published by small-press magazines and book publishers. This year, WLT’s six nominees include: Poetry Santiago Acosta, “Dead Horse Bay,” trans. Tiffany Troy & the Women in Translation Project, March 2024 Rina Garcia Chua, “The Air Has Changed,” March 2024 Pádraig Ó Tuama, “Rite of Baptism,” May 2024 Prose Erica N. Cardwell, “If Willarena Were an Artist,” March 2024 Leila Guerriero, “Today Is Yesterday,” trans. Frances Riddle, May 2024 Chantha Nguon, “Silken Rebellion Fish Fry,” trans. Kim Green, May 2024 Congratulations to our nominated writers and translators! This is just a sampling of WLT’s stellar content from the past year—as always, choosing from more than two hundred contributors, both print and online, is exceedingly difficult. As the year comes to a close, Michelle Johnson, Rob Vollmar, Parker Buske, and I would like to... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2024-12-02 20:06:13 UTC ]

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