Futures Magazine -- Nominations for Pushcart Prize

Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine takes pride in being on the editorial board of the prestigious Pushcart Prizes and is delighted to announce its nominations.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Pushcart and its founder, Bill Henderson, this annual award represents writing _today_. Because nominees are chosen by the small press publisher who published the work during the year, they are the best of each publisher's best.

The result is a 600-page clothbound volume, THE PUSHCART PRIZE: BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES. It will be published in the fall of 2003, followed in the spring with a paperback printing.

There are over 200 small press publishers who contribute each year. Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine is very proud to have been listed as a contributing editor in the past several volumes.

This is one award where a nomination alone can be vital to a writer's career and should surely
remain in his or her resume forever.

The Pushcart Prize was named among the most influential projects in the history of American publishing by Publishers Weekly. Library Journal says, "These authors are not only our finest storytellers, poets and essayists they are also the guardians of our language."

Please join Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine in congratulating the following nominees:

1. TRACKS by Nancy Sweetland - short fiction 1st issue of 2002, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS,
MINNESOTA

2. WHAT A DAY by Seymour Shubin - short fiction 1st issue of 2002, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS,
MINNESOTA

3. BRIDGES by Ashok Banker - essay 2nd issue of 2002, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

4. MORAL JUDGEMENTS - VERBAL JUDO FOR COPS - A NEW PATH FOR ENFORCEMENT
- by G. Miki Hayden, column 3RD ISSUE 2002, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

5. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? A HOSTILE LOOK AT STUPIDITY - by Peter J. Welling, column 4th issue 2002 Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

6. AS RIGHT AS RAIN - by Scott Masterton, short fiction issue 4 2002, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine/BABS LAKEY publisher, MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA

Contact:

Babs Lakey, Publisher FMAM- Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine
http://WWW.FMAM.BIZ
babs@suspenseunlimited.net