Each year we put forward six pieces from the previous year of Neon Literary Magazine to be considered for the Pushcart Prize. In case you’ve never heard of it, the Pushcart Prize is intended to celebrate the very best of the small press world by collecting together the finest works of fiction and poetry published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Selecting just six pieces out of the dozens we’ve published was a near impossible task. After much deliberation, then, here are our six nominees:
“By an English Sea” by Thomas Evans
“Signals of Fear and Uncertainty” by Eric Shattuck
“You Invent This Invention” by Molly O’Brien
“A Heavy Scene” by James Hodgson
“Daytime Television” by Jake Ristic-Petrovic
“Toni’s Party” by Erica Mosley
We wish each of them the very best of luck, and will be looking forward to the announcement of the selected pieces in 2018. In the meantime, if you want to read all of the nominees, both issues are available to download for a price of your choosing. We hope you enjoy their work as much as we did!