Associate Professor Lucas Southworth Awarded Pushcart Prize
Lucas Southworth’s short story “The Crying Room,” originally published in the journal Copper Nickel, has been awarded a prestigious Pushcart Prize and will be included alongside other
winners in the 2022 Pushcart Anthology: Best of the Small Presses. Each literary journal is allowed a small number of nominations and former prizewinners
can also nominate as contributing editors. Judges choose winners from that pool of
nominations and award prizes to approximately twenty short stories, twenty poems,
and twenty essays each year. Writers consider a Pushcart Prize to be one of the highest
literary honors and a career-defining achievement. W. W. Norton & Co. will release
the 2022 anthology of winning pieces in December.