Flying Island

Indiana Writers Center is honored to provide a platform for writers from Indiana or with strong ties to Indiana through our literary journal the Flying Island , and through our publishing imprint INWords . Each year we support the writers we publish by submitting their works to the Pushcart Prizes. This year we submitted the following works for consideration of the Pushcart Prize Anthology. The Pushcart Prize celebrates writing published by small presses. Prose from What Was and What Will Be: Life in the Time of COVID-19 Leah Lederman, “My Bleeding Heart” Ania Spyra, “…But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars” Poetry from the Flying Island David J. Bauman, “Home” Laurel Smith, “Loaded” Bethany Brengan, “Kitchen Romance” Roger Pfingston, “Pausing for Beauty”  

Flying Island, the online literary journal of the Indiana Writers Center, is pleased to announce its nominees for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. Vincent Corsaro for "Lost in Translation: A Spaniard With English Ears," January 14, 2019 https://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2019/01/lost-in-translation-spaniard-with.html Mary M. Brown for "San Souci," August 9, 2019 https://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/san-souci-poem-by-mary-m-brown.html Terry Ofner for "Cave Painting," April 1, 2019 https://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2019/04/cave-painting-poem-by-terry-ofner.html Mary Redman for "Meatless Friday," November 11, 2019 https://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2019/11/meatless-fridays-poem-by-mary-redman.html Mary Sexson for "Her Addiction," January 21, 2019 https://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2019/01/her-addiction-3-poems-by-mary-sexson.html Congratulations and good luck to...

The editors of the Flying Island and the Indiana Writers Center are pleased to announce the journal's 2018 Pushcart Prize nominees: FICTION “In the Name of the ...” by George Hook Click here. CREATIVE NONFICTION “Running in the Dark” by Maureen Deaver Purcell Click here. POETRY “River That Never Ran” by Mary M. Brown Click here. “Gravegarden” by Andrea Dunn Click here. “Cheerios in Bed in Berlin” by Norbert Krapf Click here. “Head Up” by Manon Voice Click here. Barbara Shoup, executive editor Rachel Sahaidachny, Indiana Writers Center program manager David M. Hassler, managing and fiction editor Julianna Thibodeaux, creative nonfiction editor JL Kato, poetry editor

Congratulations to the following Flying Island contributors who are nominated for inclusion in the  The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XLIII . These selections appeared in 2017 in the Flying Island, an online journal of the Indiana Writers Center. The four poetry nominations are: The night before the inauguration, by Kristine Esser Slentz (May15, 2017) http://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-night-before-inauguration-poem-by.html The Farm Wife, by Shari Wagner (June 5, 2017) http://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2017/06/three-farm-wife-poems-by-shari-wagner.html Going Deaf, by Mary M. Brown (July 31, 2017) http://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2017/07/going-deaf-poem-by-mary-m-brown.html Truck Stop Dog, by Thomas Alan Orr (August 23, 2017) http://flyingislandjournal.blogspot.com/2017/08/truck-stop-dog-poem-by-thomas-alan-orr.html The fiction nomination is: Pyramid Scheme, by Jim Powell (Oct. 27, 2017)   http://flyingislandjo...