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I am thrilled to be among Arachne Press’s nominations for next year’s Pushcart Prize.
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This is for my story ‘Ballast’, which featured in their ‘Time and Tide’ anthology. It’s a story I was very pleased with, and it’s great that Cherry Potts, Arachne’s editor, feels it’s a good one, too. Cherry’s method of choosing her nominations is very scientific – she just went for the pieces of work which gave her goosebumps when she first read them – which seems fair enough to me!
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I’m in some great company. Congratulations, and good luck to us all. But for me, at least, having this validation from Cherry is sufficiently rewarding.