Each year The Pushcart Prize presents the most distinguished short stories, poems and essays first published by small presses and magazines nationwide and each volume is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery. The most honored literary series in America. The Pushcart Prize has won the The Carey Thomas Award, been selected many times as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. and has been chosen for several Book of the Month Club QPB selections. Pushcart Press and its Prize were named among the "most influential in the development of the American book business over the past century and a quarter, " by Publishers Weekly.