The Gorko Gazette

YOU PUSH OUR CART, WE’LL PUSH YOURS

From the Pushcart Press website: The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

From the Pushcart Press Nominations page: We welcome up to six nominations (print or online) from little magazine and small book press editors throughout the world. The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels.

THE GORKO NOMINATES…

ALL SELECTIONS PUBLISHED ON THE GORKO THIS YEAR. CLICK TITLE TO READ!

Nate Belisle
Jacques’ boat was the Calypso

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Bruce Gee
My Eighth Year

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Tempest Miller
Machine Gun Kelly

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Karol Nielsen
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram

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M.P. Powers
the parrot motel

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Grant Vecera
Summer, 1975, Speedway, Indiana

Nominations were enveloped, stamped, and mailed to Wainscott, NY earlier this month. Best of luck to all Gorko contestants!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nate Belisle. Seafarer. Lover of shore leave. Collector of heads. Disseminator of tales. Twitter: @Npeligeiro. Substack: bstings.substack.com

Bruce Gee  Son of Bayard, middle named Bayard. Spent his life searching for the meaning of Bayard. Raised a quiver of young ‘un. No regrets.

Tempest Miller is a writer from the UK. His work has appeared in Boats Against the Current, Swamp Pink and JAKE. He releases a monthly chapbook on Amazon. His Instagram is @tempestm1ller. 

Karol Nielsen is the author of the memoirs Walking A&P and Black Elephants and three poetry chapbooks. Her first memoir was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her full-length poetry collection was a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poem ‘This New Manhattan’ was a finalist for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize.

M.P. Powers is a Floridian who works as a forklift driver in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of The Initiate (Anxiety Press, Fall, 2023) and Strange Instruments (Forthcoming ’25). Recent publications include the Columbia Review, Black Stone/White Stone, Stone Circle Review, miniMag, and others. His artwork can be found on Twitter and Instagram @mppowers1132

Grant Vecera teaches writing, literature, and thinking at Butler University and at Indiana University Indianapolis, where he lives with his lovely wife, daughter, bicycle, and two cats. His poems have been appearing in various illustrious literary periodicals on and off again for about 30 years.

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