Flashquake’s 2011 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Each year, literary magazines across the country get to nominate 6 of the pieces they’ve published in that year for the Pushcart Prize. Here are Flashquake’s 6 nominations:

BEHIND THE FRAME
By Vaidehi Patil
Winter issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Vivian Faith Prescott

FAST LANE PHONETICS
By Justin N. Davies
Winter issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Bud Clayman

FINDING OUT
By Margaret Garcia
Spring issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Bud Clayman

M9.0: 35 JAPANESE GOGYOHKA ON THE DISASTER
Translated by Enta Kusakabe and Tim Geaghan
Introduction by Enta Kusakabe and Tim Geaghan
Summer issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Cindy Bell

THREE FROM IDAHO
By Judy Huddleston
Fall issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Vivian Faith Prescott

WAR STORIES
By Lois Barr
Summer issue
Chosen by FQ Editor Cindy Bell