Many of today's celebrated short story authors received their first national recognition in The Pushcart Prize, and over the years, the series has tracked the development of the form, encompassing all its enthusiasms from traditional to experimental in an unsurpassed eclectic...
Since 1976, The Pushcart Prize has been "the single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today," according to the New York Times Book Review. Many of today's celebrated short story authors received their first national recognition in the Pushcart Prize;...