CTN’s Poetry Editor for the Journal of Ideas and Pedagogy, Fernando Esteban Flores, has received a nomination for The Pushcart Prize.  Its mission is to celebrate the best work coming out of the small, independent presses each year. Editors may nominate up to six pieces in any genre from work that appeared in their pages that year, after which a panel of previous Pushcart Prize winners and editors select the winners. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in its annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses.