We're proud of the work published in Vine Leaves and remain committed to giving the vignette its time in the spotlight - so naturally, we dug through our first year of submissions to find a half dozen of our favorite pieces to nominate for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Whew! And we thought selecting work for the anthology was tough!

While we could have submitted hundreds of your vignettes, the maximum is six - so please join us in wishing the best of luck to these wonderful Vine Leaves writers/nominees:

Broken - Kathryn Roberts
The Blemish Collector - Carrie Mumford
You Laughed - John Biesecker
We Don't Need No Trouble - Allen Taft
Abandonment - Valentina Cano
Joseph - Christina Tang-Bernas

For more information about the prize, including the nomination and selection process, please visit the website.

Good luck to our talented nominees!