Chicken House Press Nominates Four Short Story Authors for Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is one of the most honoured literary projects in America - including Highest Honours from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in their annual collections.
The Pushcart Prize has been a labour of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60's and 70's and Chicken House Press is pleased to make its first nomination from the 2023 catalogue.
Nominations include Crystal Randall Barnett for Glass Panes, Daryl Bruce for The Salmon Son, and Noa Padawer-Blatt for The Magician and the Acrobat - all of which were included in the short story anthology Small Town Summer Nights (April 2023). Also nominated is Ace Baker for My Singapore Garden, The Killing Jar, and Menos Coca, Más Cacao from his short story collection How to Make a Killing Jar (August 2023).
Copies of each story have been sent to the Pushcart Committee for consideration. Big thanks to each author for allowing Chicken House Press to be the vehicle to share these stories with the world.
Featuring a foreword by Marina L. Reed (author of On the Edge) and short fiction by Crystal Randall Barnett, Daryl Bruce, Finnian Burnett, Alyssa Bushell, Casey Fehr, Jennifer Moffatt, Noa Padawer-Blatt, and Karen Walker.
To be included in this anthology, writers had to make the decision to dive deep and explore zones of discomfort in order to captivate the reader; in order to bring characters to life; in order to make an impact.
Through eight short stories you will be reminded who you used to be when you yearned for who you wanted to become; you will cower as a child at the hand of an overzealous mother; you will mourn growing pains; you will return home; you will grieve lost loved ones and wrong choices; you will explore and you will be explored.
Don’t just read these stories because they are all Canadian, read them because you want a reprieve, read them because you want to explore a piece of yourself left hidden, read them because they are too good to miss.
Available for KINDLE, KOBO, and AMAZON PRIME.
Utilizing an arsenal of tools amassed from years of study and teaching, Ace Baker unleashes a powerful collection of 12+1 tales.
Always compelling, sometimes irreverent, often shocking; revealing layers and levels not often achieved through short stories.
How to Make a Killing Jar will linger long after the last page is read, proving the world of fiction can unveil some harsh, hard, and sometimes humorous truths about the human condition.
