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It's our pleasure to nominate six pieces for the prestigious Pushcart Prize each year. Our Grand Prize winner from each contest is an automatic nomination, and an additional nominee from each publication (an Honorable Mention from TulipTree Review and one of the merit prize winners from Stories That Need to Be Told) is also chosen. Below are our past and current nominees.

2023

​from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner Life on the Ledge by Amy Soscia
and Heat Map by Hannah Hindley

from TulipTree Review Humor issue
Grand Prize winner The Invitation by Angela Louise
and The Pineapple Upside Down Cake Incident by Geoffrey K. Graves

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2023
Grand Prize winner Gerald: A Memoir by Arlo Z. Graves
and Bonus merit winner Phantom Pain by Victoria Crane

2022

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner Ashore by Branden Boyer-White
and HM Prophecy by Jess Luna

from TulipTree Review Humor issue
Grand Prize winner Wild Turkey by William E. Burleson
and HM Roomba by Ryan G. Murphy

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2022
Grand Prize winner Liv and Let Liv by Julie Esther Fisher
and Depth merit winner Dear Dad by Darian Geddis

​​2021

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner The Girl Who Visited the Alligator Queenby Couri Johnson
and HM A Married Woman Walks into a Bar by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

from TulipTree Review Disruptors issue
Grand Prize winner Four Pigs in the Desert by Morgan Smith
and The Desperate by Doug Bost

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2021
Grand Prize winner Don’t You Sweetheart Me by Heather Debling
and Bonus merit winner The Door by Christianna Soumakis

2020

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner Eve: I Did It on Purpose by Melina Vanchieri
and HM Your Daughter Is a Full Moon by Sabrina Strand

from TulipTree Review Genre issue
Grand Prize winner Infinite Realities by Alexander Weinstein
and HM Funnybone by William Hemlepp

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2020
Grand Prize winner Red Bluff by Michael Pearce
and Bonus merit winner WilFul Damages by Alan Whelan

2019

from TulipTree Review Wild Women issue
Grand Prize winner The Missing Jesus by Neta Harris
and HM Woman off the Grid by Sandy Lender

from TulipTree Review New Writers issue
Grand Prize winner Gingerbread House by Daniel Zeiders
and HM The Day I Met My Mother by Patsy Lally

from Stories That Need to Be Told 2019
Grand Prize winner Messenger of God by Morgan Smith
and Depth merit winner Neanderthals by Michael Keane