It's our pleasure to nominate six pieces for the prestigious Pushcart Prize each year. Our Grand Prize winner from each contest is an automatic nomination, and an additional nominee from each publication (an Honorable Mention from TulipTree Review and one of the merit prize winners from Stories That Need to Be Told) is also chosen. Below are our past and current nominees.

2024

​from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner "Our Fairy Tale" by Victoria Castañeda
and "For Circe" by Lauren Hayes 

from TulipTree Review Humor issue
Grand Prize winner "Couches" by Mark Hersh
and "Abstinence, Only . . ." by Laurie Rosenwald

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2024
Grand Prize winner "I Love You. I Promise" by Mike Rosen
and Love merit winner "Hugging Alder" by Laura E. Garrard 

2023

​from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner “Life on the Ledge" by Amy Soscia
and “Heat Map" by Hannah Hindley

from TulipTree Review Humor issue
Grand Prize winner "The Invitation" by Angela Louise
and "The Pineapple Upside Down Cake Incident" by Geoffrey K. Graves

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2023
Grand Prize winner "​Gerald: A Memoir" by Arlo Z. Graves
and Bonus merit winner "Phantom Pain" by Victoria Crane

2022

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner "Ashore" by Branden Boyer-White
and HM "Prophecy" by Jess Luna

from TulipTree Review Humor issue
Grand Prize winner "Wild Turkey" by William E. Burleson
and HM "Roomba" by Ryan G. Murphy

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2022
Grand Prize winner "Liv and Let Liv" by Julie Esther Fisher
and Depth merit winner "Dear Dad" by Darian Geddis

​​2021

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner "​The Girl Who Visited the Alligator Queen"by Couri Johnson
and HM "A Married Woman Walks into a Bar" by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

from TulipTree Review Disruptors issue
Grand Prize winner "Four Pigs in the Desert" by Morgan Smith
and "The Desperate" by Doug Bost

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2021
Grand Prize winner "Don’t You Sweetheart Me" by Heather Debling
and Bonus merit winner "The Door" by Christianna Soumakis

2020

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner "Eve: I Did It on Purpose" by Melina Vanchieri
and HM "Your Daughter Is a Full Moon" by Sabrina Strand

from TulipTree Review Genre issue
Grand Prize winner "Infinite Realities" by Alexander Weinstein
and HM "Funnybone" by William Hemlepp

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2020
Grand Prize winner "Red Bluff" by Michael Pearce
and Bonus merit winner "WilFul Damages" by Alan Whelan

2019

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner "The Missing Jesus" by Neta Harris
and HM "Woman off the Grid" by Sandy Lender

from TulipTree Review New Writers issue
Grand Prize winner “Gingerbread House" by Daniel Zeiders
and HM "The Day I Met My Mother" by Patsy Lally

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2019
Grand Prize winner "Messenger of God" by Morgan Smith
and Depth merit winner "Neanderthals" by Michael Keane

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