Pushcart Press
{{Short description|American publishing house}}
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| distribution = W. W. Norton & Company
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Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson (a one-time associate editor at Doubleday) and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually.
History
Bill Henderson started Pushcart Press in 1972 in his apartment in Yonkers, New York.{{Cite web |last=D’Mello |first=Judy |title=Pushcart Celebrates a Half-Century {{!}} The East Hampton Star |url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/2022428/pushcart-celebrates-half-century |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=www.easthamptonstar.com |language=en}}
Recognition
The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year. It has also won the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize.[http://www.pushcartpress.org/ Pushcart Press website], Retrieved 21 February 2008
Books
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- Garden State (1992) by Rick Moody
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609071651/http://www.pw.org/mag/newsdavis101.htm Pushcart Rolls Into 25th Year], Christina Davis, Poets & Writers Magazine, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010726/http://www.pw.org/mag/con0101.htm Vol. 29, Issue 1, January/February 2001]
- [http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/henderson.html Henderson manuscripts], Lilly Library Manuscript Collections, Indiana University
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.pushcartprize.com/pushcartpress.html}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928015549/http://www.smallpress.org/members/dataviewDet.asp?Id=489 Entry] at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (formerly Small Press Center)
Category:Publishing companies established in 1972
Category:Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Category:1972 establishments in New York (state)
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