We are pleased to announce our nominations for this year’s prestigious Pushcart Prizes, all of which were published in Conte 6.1:

• “Another Machine to Praise” by Jon Cone
• “Fleeing Juarez Exodus Leaves More Than 100,000 Homes Abandoned” by Sheila Black
• “His Clarinet” by Sally Rosen Kindred
• “Spring Box” by M.V. Montgomery
• “The Pigs of Hilo” by Emil DeAndreis

We congratulate all of our nominees–we’re keeping our fingers crossed for you!

We are thrilled to announce that poetry editor Adam Tavel recently won the 14th Annual Robert Frost Award, and that contributing poetry editor Ashley Seitz Kramer recently won The Cincinnati Review’s 2010 Schiff Prize in Poetry.  Kudos!