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Nature’s Gifts Anthology
Compiled by Vanilla Heart Publishing
“We are thrilled with the quality and variety of prose and poetry for our first annual Nature’s Gifts anthology. More than twenty pieces, from haiku to villanelles, from essays to short stories, will delight nature lovers everywhere. Take a walk in a garden or hike in a national park. Reflect on the moon. Learn something new. Laugh and cry with our writers as they discover the beauty, the joys, and the raw power of nature. The Nature Conservancy will receive a donation of 50 percent of the profits for every book sold in both print and e-book editions for one year. Dedicated to protecting our rapidly vanishing natural environment, The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 117 million acres of land in 28 countries.
The selected poets and authors are: Kathi Anderson, Douglas G. Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Sam Cash, Chelle Cordero, Helen Fanick, JEGlaze, S. Kelley Harrell, Robert Hays, Donna Henes, Lisa Houff, Victoria Howard, Leah Mooney, Thom Newnham, Deanne Quarrie, Connie Spittler, Smoky Trudeau, Kimberlee Williams, & Scott Zeidel.”
Vanilla Heart Publishing Announces 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees

“Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2009 The Pushcart Prize – Best of the Small Presses, published every year since 1976, and widely recognized as the most honored literary project in America.
From the Pushcart Prize Website:
“The Pushcart Press has been recognized as among the most influential publishers in American history by Publishers Weekly. Pushcart won the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize (2006), and Publishers Weekly’s Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year (1979).
The Press is best known for its annual anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published every year for more than three decades and featuring outstanding fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays selected from hundreds of little magazines and small book publishers.”
And now, the Vanilla Heart Publishing Nominees:
Robert Hays; The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris
Chelle Cordero; Final Sin
Victoria Howard; Three Weeks Last Spring
Collin Kelley; Conquering Venus
Kate Evans; Complementary Colors
Vila SpiderHawk; Forest Song: Little Mother
Congratulations, Nominees!
Final Sin is a 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominee!
Yeppers!
Final Sin by Chelle Cordero has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize competition!
I’ve been trying to figure it out… Please let me know, just leave your comments below.
Here’s the post from Vanilla Heart Publishing:
Vanilla Heart Publishing Announces
2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees
Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2009 The Pushcart Prize – Best of the Small Presses, published every year since 1976, and widely recognized as the most honored literary project in America.
From the Pushcart Prize Website:
“The Pushcart Press has been recognized as among the most influential publishers in American history by Publishers Weekly. Pushcart won the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize (2006), and Publishers Weekly’s Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year (1979).
The Press is best known for its annual anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published every year for more than three decades and featuring outstanding fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays selected from hundreds of little magazines and small book publishers.”
And now, our Vanilla Heart Publishing Nominees:
Robert Hays; The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris
Chelle Cordero; Final Sin
Victoria Howard; Three Weeks Last Spring
Collin Kelley; Conquering Venus
Kate Evans; Complementary Colors
Vila SpiderHawk; Forest Song: Little Mother
Congratulations, Nominees!
(btw, congratulations to all of the nominees, I am in GREAT company!)