Pushcart Prize Nominations and Grantchester Awards

Poems selected from The Orchards Winter Issue for the Pushcart Prize and Grantchester Awards 2022

The Grantchester Award Winners

First Place $50.00

  1. “The Kingdom of God Is Like . . .” by Jennifer Stewart   

Second Place $30.00

  1. “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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