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.
Pushcart Press celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022.
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.Pushcart Press website, Retrieved 21 February 2008
Books
Garden State (1992) by Rick Moody
References Pushcart Rolls Into 25th Year, Christina Davis, Poets & Writers Magazine, Vol. 29, Issue 1, January/February 2001 Henderson manuscripts, Lilly Library Manuscript Collections, Indiana University
External links
Entry at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (formerly Small Press Center)