We are pleased to nominate six Hunger Mountain authors for 2017 The Pushcart Prize:

• Hope Chernov for her story “Things I think about while swimming“
• Noelle Catharine Allen for her story “Day Trip”
• Michelle Webster-Hein for her essay “These Things Should Not Happen”
• River Holmes-Miller for her essay “What is There, What is Missing”
• Daneen Bergland for her poem “An Evolution of Understanding,” and
• Joel Brouwer for his poem “Observations at the Security Checkpoint.”

All authors were published at Hunger Mountain either in Issue 19 or online in 2015. Wish them luck!