Issue 4.12 - Pushcart Prize Nominations

This special issue curates our nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prizes. To hear the issue the work originally appeared in, click on the artist's image
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"Reflections on my Talk with Hagoral"
Natalie Woociker is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist, living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written work is deeply corporeal. She often writes about what can be felt but not seen, crossing over from numbness into feeling, and recording the story of what our bodies tell us along the way. ​
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"Strum and Lull"
Taunja Thomson has loved art and mythology since childhood.  A worshiper of nature, her summers are filled with playing in the mud and flowers and water gardening, and her winters are spent obsessively feeding the birds and other wildlife that appear in her one-acre slice of heaven, a field.
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"Six Inches"
Ryan Dunham is currently a doctoral candidate at Ohio University.  He earned both his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University.  His work has recently appeared in Five:2:One Magazine, Canyon Voices, The Bookends Review, and Gambling the Aisle.  Ryan is a Pushcart Prize XLII Nominee.
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"Smoke and Whiskey"
Christopher Hopkins, was born and raised in Neath, South Wales, surrounded by machines and mountains, until he moved to Oxford in his early twenties. He currently resides in Canterbury and works for the NHS. Christopher has had poems published in Rust & Moth, The Journal, Harbinger Asylum, Scarlet Leaf Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice magazine, Poetry Superhighway,  Duane's PoeTree, Outlaw Poetry and the online literary journal 1947. Two of his early e-book pamphlets "Imagination Is My Gun" and "Exit From A Moving Car" are available on Amazon.
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"Say You Walk Away"
Freelance Writer Jenifer DeBellis is Pink Panther Magazine’s Executive Editor and Director of Detroit Writers' Guild. JDB teaches writing for Saginaw Valley State University, Macomb Community College, and Oakland University’s MBWP Camps. Her work appears in the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Solstice Literary Magazine, and other fine journals. 
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"Untitled"
Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six and is the author of “Lo sguardo di Orfeo”; “L’inverno di vetro”; “Di altre stelle polari”; “Blue branches”.