Pushcart Press is a

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established in 1972 by Bill Henderson (a one-time associate

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at Doubleday) and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually.

History

Bill Henderson started Pushcart Press in 1972 in his apartment in

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. Pushcart Press celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022.

Recognition

The press has been honored by ''

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'' as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year. It has also won the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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and the 2006 Poets & Writers/

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Writers for Writers Prize.Pushcart Press website
Retrieved 21 February 2008

Books

* '' Garden State'' (1992) by

Rick Moody Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel '' The Ice Storm'', a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1 ...

References

''Pushcart Rolls Into 25th Year''
Christina Davis, '' Poets & Writers Magazine''
Vol. 29, Issue 1, January/February 2001

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Manuscript Collections,

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External links

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