The Delmarva Review honored six authors with nominations for a Pushcart Prize for their original poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Pushcart editors invite nominations annually from selected literary journals and small presses for the prestigious national awards.
Nominations from The Delmarva Review were published in its sixth annual edition, in 2013. Prizewinners from the literary competition will be published in the fall of 2014 in an anthology, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXIX, in hardcover and paperback.
“Writing My Way Home,” a personal essay by Ron Capps, was nominated for nonfiction. Mr. Capps, a combat veteran and founder of the Veterans Writing Project, is from Washington, D.C.
Poetry nominations include “Melissa,” by Bill Peak, of Easton, MD, “Immigrant,” by Holly Karapetkova, of Arlington, VA, “November Morning,” by Devon Miller-Duggan, of Newark, DE, and “Dioscuri,” by Paul Otremba, of Houston, TX.
A short story, “Flowers Scarcely Withered,” by Nancy Ford Dugan, of New York, NY, was nominated for fiction.
The Pushcart Prize has awarded outstanding literary work since 1976. It’s first collection featured short fiction by a young Ray Carver. Since then, Pushcart has discovered many talented new voices in literature. A nomination is considered a literary achievement.
The Delmarva Review is published by the Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), a nonprofit organization, to encourage literary writing and support the literary arts.
The submission period for the seventh edition of the Review is open through February 28, 2014. Writers of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry are encouraged to submit their best work. All writers are welcome. A submission link is posted on the guidelines page of the website www.delmarvareview.com.
The current print edition is available at regional libraries and bookstores, including the News Center, in Easton, MD, Mystery Loves Company, in Oxford, MD, and The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, MD. A digital edition, for download to popular reading devices, is available from Amazon.com. An order form for print copies and two-year subscriptions is posted on the Review’s website.
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