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The Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses 2025 Edition

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“Beneath the damage she can still find moments of wonder, hints of joy. Would she even say she is optimistic? It isn't the shiny optimism that lifts Samuel, but it's a hard-won kind, born from the depths. A choice. It is enough.”
― Rae Meadows, I Will Send Rain

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“At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and the way light filters into and out of a scene. The deeper messages often escape her.Sometimes I take for granted the journey through the telling. At other times I curse the muse's power. But through it all, I live each day in deep gratitude.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

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“Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

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“But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?”
― Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

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“She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, “Remember this and then write this.” Chapter 6 p. 96”
― Kij Johnson, The River Bank: A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows

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