The Rankings are coming, The Rankings are coming!

pushcart2017This weekend I am putting together the 2017 Perpetual Folly Literary Magazine Rankings, based on the Pushcart Prize. All three lists–for Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction–should be available by Sunday evening, November 13.

This year, as I’ll explain more fully when I post the lists, I have tweaked the formula by which the rankings are determined so that prizes and special mentions received during the last five years are given more weight than prizes received in the prior five years, a change that gives newer magazines something of a leg up. Other than that, the only thing I’ll reveal today is that there is a tie at the top of the Fiction list!

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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