Three poems in each recent issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal were nominated for the Pushcart prize.
Additionally, two poems in each recent issue achieved The Grantchester Award and receive a monetary prize. First place receives $50.00 (USD). Second place receives $30.00.
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2025
1st Place Grantchester Award: Vaishnavi Pusapati, “What Survives Winter”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Nancy Wheaton, “Doe Amid Yellow Leaves”
Pushcart nominee: Corey Mesler, “We’ll Always Have New Orleans”
Pushcart nominee: Heather Cadenhead, “Redemption Is a Lump in My Throat”
Pushcart nominee: David A. Goodrum, “Winter Inquisition”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2025
1st Place Grantchester Award: Claire Archer-Adderholt, “Soon/Blue”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Joanne Merriam, “Sealed in Nectar”
Pushcart nominee: Logan Lee, “Open to the sky, the sunlight blinds us”
Pushcart nominee: Ben Egerton, “46”
Pushcart nominee: Estill Pollock, “Pavane for Lost Companions”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2024
1st Place Grantchester Award: Jonathan Chan, “prayer (xxii)”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Victoria Garton, “Night Visit”
Pushcart nominee: Phil Powrie, “Each to each”
Pushcart nominee: Merrill Cole, “The Point of Seeing”
Pushcart nominee: Rachael Ikins, “Death’s Contract”*
* A poem written for poet Judy McGinn
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2024
1st Place Grantchester Award: Cecil Sayre, “Elegy”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Helena Minton, “Drift”
Pushcart nominee: T.F. Jennings, “Carnival After Hours”
Pushcart nominee: Mary Ellen Redmond, “Joy is not made to be a crumb”
Pushcart nominee: Richard Taylor, “Daughter”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2023
1st Place Grantchester Award: Mary Simmons, “Self-Portrait as Pomegranate Seeds”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: John Muro, “Consecration”
Pushcart nominee: Philip Jason, “Runover”
Pushcart nominee: Will Hemmer, “Aborning”
Pushcart nominee: Terry Firkins, “Rapprochement”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2023
1st Place Grantchester Award: Megan Wildhood, “Evaporation”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Ruth Towne, “So the Sadness Could Not Hurt”
Pushcart nominee: Samuel Samba, “Hardened in no small way”
Pushcart nominee: Elinor Ann Walker, “Highway 64, Tennessee”
Pushcart nominee: Grace Martin, “Tracking the Source, Losing the Trail”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2023
1st Place Grantchester Award: Jennifer Stewart, “The Kingdom of God Is Like . . .”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, “I comb my daughter’s hair”
Pushcart nominee: Mike James, “Slightly Lost”
Pushcart nominee: Marceline White, “Cleaved”
Pushcart nominee: Nicholas Kriefall, “Alpha”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2022
1st Place Grantchester Award: Cheryl Sadowski, “Tenants”
2nd Place Grantchester Award: Bill Richardson, “Silk Weaving”
Pushcart nominee: Bryan Edward Helton, “An Evening Walk”
Pushcart nominee: Bill Howell, “Wish Fish”
Pushcart nominee: Sodïq Oyèkànmí, “paper boat”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2021
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The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2021
Pushcart nominee: Ken Meisel, “Witness”
Pushcart nominee: Steve Gehrke, “Lincoln at His Mother’s Death”
Pushcart nominee: Rebecca A. Spears, “The Claim”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2020
Pushcart nominee: C.B. Anderson, “Storage and Retrieval”
Pushcart nominee: John Grey, “Pony Tracks in the Snow”
Pushcart nominee: William R. Stoddart, “Old Lady on a Plane”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2020
Pushcart nominee: Lisa McCabe, “Ex-Husband, Old Dog”
Pushcart nominee: Wendy Sloan, “Twilight”
Pushcart nominee: Erik Richardson, “Dharma’s last lesson on the illusion of self”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2019
Pushcart nominee: Wendy A. Howe, “Lady Caroline Lamb Writes to Lord Byron After the Break-Up”
Pushcart nominee: Terese Coe, “Vanessa Stephen Bell”
Pushcart nominee: Jean L. Kreiling, “One Year in Plymouth”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2019
Pushcart nominee: Lisa De Siro, “Motherly Advice”
Pushcart nominee: Larry Levy, “Almost Eleven Years”
Pushcart nominee: Benjamin L. Pérez, “One Faulkner”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Winter 2018
Pushcart nominee: Paul Hostovsky, “Late for the Gratitude Meeting”
Pushcart nominee: Taylor Graham, “Still Meadow”
Pushcart nominee: Sally Thomas, “My Father in an Upstairs Room”
The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2018
Pushcart nominee: Chris O’Carroll, “Getting High with Emily Dickinson”
Pushcart nominee: Susan McLean, “What You Need to Know”
Pushcart nominee: David Danoff, “Old Town”
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