SUNY Professor Ford's Short Story
Receives Prestigious Pushcart Prize
ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta creative writing instructor April L. Ford has won a Pushcart Prize for her short story “Project Fumarase.” The story, which was published in New Madrid Journal in summer 2014, will appear in the 2016 Edition Pushcart Prize anthology, due out Nov. 2.
The Pushcart Prize is a literary prize created by Pushcart Press to honor the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in non-commercial, small presses the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to six works. Annual anthologies of the prize-winning works have been published since 1976.
