2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees

January House Literary Journal is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize.

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published since 1976, has become “the most honored literary project in America”. Winners are expected to be announced around April of 2026.

Congratulations and good luck to our nominees!

Bindweed by M F Drummy

City Specters by Lisa Delan

Ghost Wedding by Xingyu Zhao

Moment in American Nectarine by Michael Dwayne Smith

Subsidence by Francis Dylan Waguespack

This is Where We Split by Stacey Lounsberry



One response to “2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees”

  1. Lisa Delan’s poetry is, for this art song singer, a register of the music of our lives. A catch and a stay for a moment to reflect on conundrum as our drums thrum in muted hum and we usher in tomorrow’s memoir.

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