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Pushcart Prize, Writing ContestNovember 14, 2015

Pushcart Prize 2016 Nominations

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Artwork by Tom Yoda

For the third consecutive year, The Missing Slate is nominating work for the Pushcart Prizes. Our previous nominations featured work from 10 different countries and translations from Bengali and Arabic. This year, our shortlist includes essays for the first time.

Our Nomination Process

Narrowing all the work we’ve published this year down to just 6 pieces was always going to be difficult, so — as usual — we’re asking for some help from our readers…

We began by asking all our editors for nominations in order to come up with a final shortlist of 12 pieces (across all eligible genres). Now we’re giving you the chance to pick our final nominations: the 6 pieces with the most votes from our readers (irrespective of genre) will be sent on to the Pushcart Press.

How to Vote

Below, you’ll find links to all 12 pieces (5 stories, 4 poems, 3 essays) on our shortlist. Read them as many times as you like, then cast your vote (the poll is located directly underneath the shortlist). Each reader is allowed to nominate up to three pieces.

The poll will be open until midnight on Sunday 15th November. If, for any reason, you’re having trouble accessing the poll, please let us know via our facebook page.

Our Shortlist

Ana Luísa Amaral, ‘About the Purest Memories, or About Light’ (translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
Maria Amir, ‘More than 50 Shades of Grey’
Michael C. Blumenthal, ‘A Dream of the Earth’ (Parts 1 & 2)
Julia Butschkow, ‘Jomfru Ane Gade’ (translated from Danish by Peter S. Woltemade)
Medardo Fraile, ‘Time’ (translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
Marcelino Freire, ‘Yamami’ (translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott)
Sándor Jászberényi, ‘Taking Trinidad’ (translated from Hungarian by M. Henderson Ellis)
Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, ‘The Wall’ (translated from Polish by Julia and Peter Sherwood)
Kent Monroe, ‘America the Brutalful’
Gábor Schein, ‘Preparation for the Crows’ Feast’ (translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)
Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, ‘tangier’ (translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese)
‘Amna Y. Khan’, ‘Muhammad’

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April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.

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