Description

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AWARDS:

'HIGH HONORS’ FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS (2021)



'LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT' RECOGNITION FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE (2006)



HONORS FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND POETS & WRITERS/ BARNES AND NOBLE

The annual international gathering of the best fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from small, independent, literary presses, including more than 60 selections from 50 presses, chosen with the advice of 180 distinguished contributing editors.

About the Author

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Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”

More than 200 Contributing Editors and CO-Editors help select the annual volumes of The Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize Editors come from almost every state in the USA and around the world. Every year more than 8,000 nominations are received for the Pushcart Prize.