New Letters Magazine Wins Two Pushcart Prizes
The editorial board of the Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses has announced that the international literary magazine New Letters has won a rare two awards for work published in 2010. An essay by the famed poet and essayist B. H. Fairchild, called “Logophilia,” will join a short story called “Rockaway,” by the up-and-coming literary talent Lydia Conklin. Both works first appeared in the summer 2010 edition of New Letters and will be reprinted in The Pushcart Prizes: XXXVI (2012).
New Letters received 11 nominations from the Pushcart Prize Board of Contributing editors, for works published in the magazine last year. Works published in New Letters have been frequently nominated in years past and have won Pushcart Prizes several times. This year, New Letters writers have been nominated for poetry, memoir, fiction and essay writing. However, this is the first year the magazine had two New Letters literary awards-winning writers nominated, Rose Bunch and Siobhán Fallon, and two international writers, Mariko Nagai of Japan and Dorthe Nors of Denmark nominated. Another well-established New Letters writer, Gary Gildner, also received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize in the memoir category.
New Letters Also Gets Glowing Review
Sima Rabinowitz of newpages.com writes: “Here is what I appreciate about New Letters: “a whispery shriek like cracked clarinet reeds.” That’s a characterization, by the first person narrator, of the voice of a character in Abby Frucht’s story “Tamarinds,” and if you know anything about clarinets it will be music to your ears. It’s that precision, and the unique and exacting sensibility of New Letters’ writers, that I anticipate and am perpetually grateful to encounter. The writing is unceasingly original, competent, and always worth my time.”
For more, see: http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2011-03-15/#New-Letters-v77-n1-2010-11.
