The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses 2002 Edition

by Bill Henderson

For the year 2002 edition, The Pushcart Prize presents over sixty stunning short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of small presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. In the long-established Pushcart tradition, this fascinating collection combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating a deeply rewarding assembly of diverse voices. The most-honored literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888889306
• ISBN13: 9781888889307
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Pushcart Press
• Length: 619 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Pushcarts are touch and go

For the most part Pushcarts are good reads. There are a few inclusions that do not deserve inclusion. THis is the case regardless of the year.

You ought to be ashamed

The Pushcart Prize is the most wonderful and rewarding annual anthology out there because, for one thing, it's the most fair--as Bill Henderson says in his introduction, there's no money here. You don't have to have written a bestseller or be in with the "New Yorker" crowd in order to be published here. All you have to do is be a good writer. Here is fiction and poetry at its rawest and purest form, from writers who write for the sake of writing, for the sheer love of it. This is a noble thing.