The Pushcart Prize’s 40th Anniversary
The Writers Studio, in partnership with The Strand Bookstore, is pleased to present the 40th Anniversary of The Pushcart Prize and the release of The Pushcart Prize XL – Best of the Small Presses 2016. For this celebration, a stellar lineup of authors will read to pay tribute to this remarkable literary project: fiction writers Zadie Smith, Colum McCann and Ben Marcus; poets Sharon Olds and Philip Schultz; poet/memoirist Mary Karr; and poet/novelist and president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi. Pushcart Prize’s founder and editor Bill Henderson will introduce the evening.
The celebration will take place at the auditorium of the Village Community School, at 272 West 10th Street (between Greenwich St. and Washington St.) in New York City. Admission is $10 at the door. For more information, visit: www.writerstudio.com
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