Lee Sharkey’s “8×8″ to be featured in Pushcart Anthology
In 1974, Lee Sharkey bought a hundred-year-old Pearl platen press, taught herself to set type and print, and produced over the course of a long Maine winter her first poetry chapbook. It was good. The others that came after it were, too. Then, for our Spring 2012 issue (#32.1), she graced The Pinch with some ...
The Spring 2013 Issue has arrived.
The Spring 2013 issue (33.1) is upon us. You should read it. You should tell a friend. It’s one of the best yet. This issue, we’ve got an interview with Randall Kenan, author of Only The Dead Know Chapel Hill, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and A Visitation of Spirits, among others. Our fiction ...
Contest info: judges announced, prize money revealed, and hype initiated.
This year, our annual Literary Awards in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction are bigger and badder than ever. We’ve added a Creative Nonfiction category, sweetened the prize pot, and assembled a stellar team of judges from across the country to make this year’s contest the best one yet. Now, all we need is your writing. ...
2012 Pushcart Nominees Announced
We’re excited to announce our 2012 nominations for The Pushcart Prize. For those unfamiliar, Pushcart nominations are made by small presses and literary journals, and for over three decades the winners of the prize have been featured in an annual collection. We choose our nominations through the power of pure democracy: every editor makes a ...
2012 Fall Release Party: Readers Revealed (Mostly)
As promised, we’ve got contributors from the current issue coming out to the party on Saturday, November 17th to read. Poet Tim Hayes (“In Case of Water Landing”) and fiction author John Vanderslice (“Supermarket”) will read, as well as a mystery creative nonfiction author who has yet to be revealed. Come out! Saturday, Saturday, SATURDAY. ...
CONTEST UPDATE
We here at The Pinch have enjoyed reading all of your submissions to our 2011 Literary Awards in fiction and poetry. We are conferring with our esteemed judges, Jeffrey McDaniel and Rick Bass, and we will announce the winners soon!
CONTEST EXTENSION!
We’ve been getting tons of excellent entries to our 2011 Literary Awards. We love them so much, in fact, we want to read more. We’ve extended the deadline to March 31st to give us a chance to read all the great fiction and poetry we can. So keep those submissions coming!
One week left to enter…
The Pinch Literary Awards! Deadline: 3/15! $2500 in prizes! Poetry: $1,000 and publication in the Pinch. Judge: Jeffrey McDaniel. Fiction: $1,500 and publication in the Pinch. Judge: Rick Bass. Enter online OR send snail mail to: The Pinch Literary Awards English Department University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-6176 Visit the Contest page for more details.
