2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Iron Horse Literary Review is pleased to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominees for 2023 and we wish all our nominees the best. Below are the nominees and their works:

Nonfiction

Laurie Champion, “Swept Up” (March 2023, 25.1)

Fiction

Kyle Bilinski, “The Weight of Stones” (March 2023, 25.1)

Michael Czyniejewski, “The Happiest Place on Earth” (Fall 2023, 25.2)

Poetry

John McCarthy, “His Once Content Father Tries to Create a Coherent Timeline Out of Disconnected Choices” (March 2023, 25.1)

Rome Hernández Morgan, “No Service, Arkansas” (March 2023, 25.1)

Lily Greenberg, “The Moment I Discovered I could Tell My Doctor to Write in ‘Refused’ Next to My Weight” (Spring 2023, IHLR NaPoMo 2023)

Congratulations to the nominees!

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