2013 Pinch Literary Awards: Now With CNF!

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in CNF, contests | No Comments

Beginning this December, for the first time ever, our annual literary contest will now include a Creative Non-Fiction Category. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the entire staff is thrilled that we’re finally able to. It’s going to be a no-holds-barred steel cage match of literary clout, and when the ...

AWP in Review

This year’s AWP was a great success!  We shared a table with the ever wonderful Fourth Genre, threw the most monumental party in DC history (no, seriously, George Washington is rolling in his grave with envy) with The Normal School & Fourth Genre, tailgated with Creative Nonfiction, attended too many fabulous readings to count, and ...

New online-only feature: Author Spotlight!

We added a new feature under Current Issue called Author Spotlight.  For the Spring 2011 issue, we’re featuring Bill Lavender, whose new memoir is excerpted in the print Pinch.  Check it out!

Pinch @ Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference

The Pinch will be at the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference in Oxford, Mississippi from November 12-14!  Stop by The Pinch table on during the pitch-fest on Saturday from 3:00-4:00pm, where Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Iversen, and Managing Editor, Kerry Hanahan, will be available to answer all of your burning Pinch-related questions.  Iversen will be conducting a workshop ...

We’re proud to announce…

Our office is sold out of the Fall 2010 issues of The Pinch!  However, you can still purchase copies at your local bookstore in the U.S. and Canada!  Get ‘em while you can!

We partied

The release party for the Spring 2010 issue was a rousing success. In fact we had so much fun, we’re taking the day to recover instead of posting about our amazing bash. Look for photos and first-hand accounts in the coming days. Don’t forget you too can get a taste of the (in)famous Pinch punch ...

2009 Pushcart Nominations

The Pinch is proud to announce its 2009 Pushcart nominations! Fiction: “Heal” by George Singleton and “February 1944 Tom Andrews, 23″ by Brian Kitely Creative Nonfiction: “Postscript to a Postscript to ‘The Ring of Time’” by Robert Root and “The Sound of Retreat” by Steven Church Poetry: “Ghazal Without Blood” by Joshua McKinney and “To ...

Solipsism Selected for Best American Essays

Ander Monson’s “Solipsism” (Volume 27.2) was selected for The Best American Essays 2008.

2008 Pushcart Nominations

2008 Pushcart Prize Nominations: Fiction- Garth Risk Hallberg, “Castaways” Nason Smith, “Breakaway Diver” Creative Nonfiction- Tita Ramirez, “On Blind Men, Metaphor, and How She Got to California in the First Place” Michelle Seaton, “How to Work a Locker Room” Poetry- Lee Sharkey, “Timor Mortis” Allison Joseph, “Trace Particles”