Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2009!

Many of you know I co-edit Crab Creek Review with Annette Spaulding-Convy, well, it's my favorite time of year because we get to choose 6 writers to nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

It was pretty hard this year as we had some wonderful writing, but these were the 6 poets and writers we choose.

Here's our official announcement, now up on our blog...


Crab Creek Review would like to congratulation the following contributors whose work we nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize from either our Fall/Winter 2009 issue or our Summer 2009 issue--


Shannon Robinson for her story "Everyone's Got a Tell"

Martha Silano for her poem "Women are Not Alone and That"

Tod Marshall for his poem "Bait"

Fernando Perez for his poem "In The Mirror When You're Wearing Someone Else's Clothes"

Lisa Allen Ortiz for her poem, "The Tortoise Survives the Fire"

Elizabeth Austen for her poem "Humans"


Congratulations! And good luck!