Pushcart Prize Nominations 2017/18

Lonesome October Lit is pleased to announce our first ever nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Our six pieces this year are…

‘Singing for These Dancing Bones’ by Jenne Kaivo

‘Bleak Row’ by Laura Potts (to be published in December)

‘Lullaby’ by Ali Jones

‘Artists in the Underworld’ by Richard Wayne Horton

‘Our Lady of the Sewer Grate’ by Robert Beveridge

‘A Friar Prevails on Father Grandier’ by John Grey

Congratulations and good luck to our nominated writers!

Chip Shop Aquariums by Thomas McColl

Last night,
at the local chip shop,

Lullaby by Ali Jones

They linger on inside hollow hills,
until songs bring them back,

Orange County Boy by Thomas Tyrrell

We’re drinking screwdrivers in beach-front Santa Monica, and my mouth is full of the twin tang of citrus and vodka when he invites me back to his place.

Our Lady of the Sewer Grate by Robert Beveridge

Dollhouse teacups must be washed
by hand;

Lady Giger by Simon Williams

It’s survival;
all the twisting spikes of evolution
have honed us.

Wicker Doll by Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe

You abducted me
at age three.

Unsolved by Matt Duggan

I still can hear those small footsteps
among the slate caves and snuff mills,

Deep Edges by G.E. Smith

After driving by it for months, he finally stopped to see if it was a pit or shadow from the nearby trees.