WELL READ Magazine December 2023

WELL READ Magazine is honored to announce the nominations for the 2023 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, the prize chosen by Pushcart Press that anthologizes the best of the small presses publishing this year. There were so many fantastic submissions this year, and I was proud to publish them all. Thank you all for your submissions!

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Fiction:

A BLEEDING HEART by Ann Hite

A HARD DOG by Will Maguire

SLEEPING ON PAUL'S MATTRESS by Brenda Sutton Rose

Non-fiction:

A FEW HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD POOL PLAYER by Francine Rodriguez

MILLER'S CAFE by Mike Hilbig

Poetry:

THERE WERE RED FLAGS by Mike Turner