Chautauqua is proud to announce our 2023 nominations for the Pushcart Prize anthology. Each of these pieces was selected by the editors from our 2023 Chance Encounters issues. It was a challenge to select just six pieces from the abundance of beautiful work we have published in the last year. Please join us in congratulating these writers and wishing them luck.
The 2023 Chautauqua Pushcart nominees are:
From Issue 20.1:
Kristen Dorsey, for "Hive of Sisters"
Erin Pesut, for "Endings"
From Issue 20.2:
Mary Gilliland, for "Revealing the Passenger List"
John Hoppenthaler, for "After Listening to the Weather, I Pull into a Bar"
Xiaoly Li, for "Horn Pond in May"
Doug Ramspeck, for "Six Omens in Six Days"