Pushcart Prize Nominations 2019
Nominees Announced!
We're delighted to announce that 9L has nominated the following works from our Spring/Summer 2019 and Fall/Winter 2019-20 editions for The Pushcart Prize XLV:
Spring/Summer 2019 (vol. 16 no. 1, published May 2019)
Michael Torres, "The Pachuco Himself Considers the Audacity of Language" (poetry)
Jacob Aiello, "Units of Measurement" (creative nonfiction)
Alex McElroy, "The Cruise" (fiction)
Fall/Winter 2019-20 (vol. 16 no. 2, forthcoming December 2019)
Samantha Edmonds, "The Adventures of Earthgirl and Starboy" (fiction)
Jenny Tinghui Zhang, "Party Trick Chinese" (creative nonfiction)
Adam Meisner, "Fourteen Translations for a Line from Barthes' Incidents" (poetry)
Anniversary Special!
In 2019, Ninth Letter celebrates 15 years of publication, and to celebrate, we are offering ALL back issues from volume 1, number 1 to volume 15, number 2, for only $5.95! Prices are good through 12/31/2019. Visit our webstore to order!
Now Available! Volume 16, no. 1 - Spring/Summer 2019
Featuring new work from: George David Clark, Millie Tullis, nicole v basta, Beth Kephart, Jacob Aiello, Steve Tomasula, Alex McElroy, Melanie Ritzenthaler, and more. Plus: The Audacity of Language: Eight CantoMundo Poets
Some Kind of Second Heart: New Bulgarian Writing
Featured Writer: Sheila O'Connor
An excerpt from Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019)
Current Web Edition: Summer 2019
Featuring Jessica Staricka, Danielle Dubrasky, GE Gilbert, Kristine Langley Mahler, Johann Sarna, Cullen Whisenhunt, Sara Baxter, Harris Lahti, Alyse Knorr, Demi Anter, Len Lawson, Kailey Tedesco, Rachel J. Bennett
Featured Writer: Katherine Vaz
Featured Writer: Emily Arnason Casey
"Sorrow Is a Mother," from Made Holy (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction, University of Georgia Press, 2019)
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