Pushcart Prize
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The Pushcart Prize honours the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Little magazine and small book press editors are invited annually to nominate work they've published. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.
Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize Anthologies were: Raymond Carver, Tim O'Brien, Charles Baxter, Andre Dubus, Mona Simpson, Seán Mac Falls, Joshua Clover and Paul Muldoon.