Announcing WLT’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
Even as the editors of World Literature Today look ahead to 2025, anticipating our ninety-ninth year of continuous publication, we are delighted to announce WLT’s shortlist of Pushcart nominees for 2024. Pushcart Prize L, the fiftieth anthology in the esteemed series, will honor the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays published by small-press magazines and book publishers. This year, WLT’s six nominees include:
Poetry
- Santiago Acosta, “Dead Horse Bay,” trans. Tiffany Troy & the Women in Translation Project, March 2024
- Rina Garcia Chua, “The Air Has Changed,” March 2024
- Pádraig Ó Tuama, “Rite of Baptism,” May 2024
Prose
- Erica N. Cardwell, “If Willarena Were an Artist,” March 2024
- Leila Guerriero, “Today Is Yesterday,” trans. Frances Riddle, May 2024
- Chantha Nguon, “Silken Rebellion Fish Fry,” trans. Kim Green, May 2024
Congratulations to our nominated writers and translators! This is just a sampling of WLT’s stellar content from the past year—as always, choosing from more than two hundred contributors, both print and online, is exceedingly difficult.
As the year comes to a close, Michelle Johnson, Rob Vollmar, Parker Buske, and I would like to thank the many writers, translators, reviewers, artists, contributing editors, board members, University of Oklahoma colleagues and students, and readers who make World Literature Today an enduring voice in the conversation about twenty-first-century literature and culture. We are honored to share this vital work with readers worldwide, and we look forward to showcasing many outstanding international literary voices in 2025.
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