Announcing Our Pushcart Prize Win

Congratulations to contributor Ben Shattuck for winning a Pushcart Prize for his Issue 16 story, The History of Sound! His story will be published in the forthcoming Pushcart anthology, out this November.

Read the story here.

Here are the pieces from The Common nominated by the Pushcart editors:

“Baby Was Not Fine” by Mindy Misener, fiction
“Capital” by Richie Hofmann, poetry
“The Toy Lamb” by Erica Ehrenberg, poetry
“Easter, Bonifacio High Street” by Joseph O. Legaspi, poetry

Here are the pieces nominated by The Common staff:

“The Shed” by Liz Arnold, essay
“People Who Go to the Beach Alone” by Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, fiction
“Land Not Theirs” by Madison Davis, essay
“After the Storm” by Mara Pastor, poetry
“They Won’t Find Us in Books” by Willie Perdomo, poetry