The Grantchester Award Winners from The Orchards Winter Issue
First Place $50.00
Megan Wildhood, “Evaporation” (63)
Second Place $30.00
Ruth Towne, “So the Sadness Could Not Hurt” (171)
Pushcart Nominations selected from the 2023 The Orchards Summer Issue
- Samuel Samba, “Hardened in no small way” (70)
- Elinor Ann Walker, “Highway 64, Tennessee” (110)
- Grace Martin, “Tracking the Source, Losing the Trail” (121)
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Poems selected from The Orchards Winter Issue for the Pushcart Prize and Grantchester Awards 2022
The Grantchester Award Winners
First Place $50.00
- “The Kingdom of God Is Like . . .” by Jennifer Stewart
Second Place $30.00
- “I comb my daughter’s hair” by Elizabeth Cranford Garcia
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Pushcart Nominations
“Slightly Lost” by Mike James
“Cleaved” by Marceline White
“Alpha” by Nicholas Kriefall
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Poems selected from The Orchards Summer Issue for the Pushcart Prize and Grantchester Awards 2022
The Grantchester Award Winners
“Tenants” by Cheryl Sadowski First Place $50.00
“Silk Weaving” by Bill Richardson Second Place $30.00
Pushcart Prize nominations
An Evening Walk by Bryan Edward Helton
Wish Fish by Bill Howell
paper boat by Sodïq Oyèkànmí
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2021
Cathedral by John Schneider
The Bear’s Carol by Daniel Lusk
Atammayata by George Payne
Witness ~ Ken Meisel
Lincoln at His Mother’s Death ~ Steve Gehrke
The Claim ~ Rebecca A. Spears
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2020
Storage and Retrieval ~ C.B. Anderson
Pony Tracks in the Snow ~ John Grey
Old Lady on Plane ~ William R. Stoddart
Ex-Husband, Old Dog ~ Lisa McCabe
Twilight ~ Wendy Sloan
Dharma’s Last Lesson on the illusion of self ~ Erik Richardson
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2019
Motherly Advice ~ Lisa DeSiro
Almost Eleven Years ~ Larry Levy
Our Faulkner ~ Benjamin L. Pérez
Lady Caroline Lamb Writes To Lord Byron After The Break-up ~ Wendy A. Howe
Vanessa Stephen Bell ~ Terese Coe
Elegy: One Year in Plymouth ~ Jean L. Kreiling
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2018
Paul Hostovsky ~ Late for the Gratitude Meeting
Taylor Graham ~ Still Meadow
Sally Thomas ~ My Father Drawing in an Upstairs Room
Chris O’Carroll ~ Getting High with Emily Dickinson
Susan McLean ~ What You Need to Know
David Danoff ~ Old Town
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2017
Kevin Durkin ~ Tenants
John Grey ~ Sonnet of the Forest
Leslie Schultz ~ To a Former Friend, Whose Affections Are Withdrawn
Catherine Chandler ~ The Watchers at Punta Ballena, Uruguay
Siham Karami ~ To a Birch Tree
Gary Whitby ~ World’s End
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Pushcart Prize nominations from The Orchards 2016
Catherine Chandler ~ Valediction
Sally Cook ~ Mercurial
Gary Whitby ~ Sister Maggie
Dana Gioia ~ Marriage of Many Years
Nicole Caruso Garcia ~ All Things Lost
Quincy R. Lehr ~ A Note for Posterity
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