Category: announcements

Categories
announcements

2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations

2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations

November 29, 2021

It’s official! This year’s Pushcart Nominations have been signed, sealed, and delivered (or at least dropped off at the USPS)!! 

Each year editors of small book presses, magazines, and journals are invited to nominate six pieces of poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels. Pieces published (or scheduled to be published) between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021 are eligible which for us meant work from Issues #3, #4, and #5. We’re excited to announce the following nominations:

Congratulations and best of luck write on!

Cheers,
The Good Life Review Team

Categories
announcements

Issue #5, Autumn 2021 is Now Live!

Issue #5, Autumn 2021 is Now Live!

November 15, 2021

Today we are honored to present a new collection of wonderful work from a truly stellar line-up of authors and artists in our 5th issue.

This issue features the ten-minute stage play, The Farewell Burn, by Kara Davidson, selected as the winner for our inaugural Honey Bee Prize in the Stage & Screen category by judge Michael Oatman. 

We’re also pleased as punch to present a poem by the Emperor of Ice Cream himself, Todd Robinson, alongside a stellar line-up of other talented writers and artists. Michael Wesner’s story “The Shapiros” will make you laugh and Soo Yeon Chun’s poem “Oath of Assimilation” will roll through you like a heavy freight train. And we would be remiss if we failed to mention the artwork included in the pages of this issue; these pieces are incredible. 

Dive into the issue or download the full copy here.

Cheers,
~The Good Life Review Team

Categories
announcements

Announcing the 2021 Honey Bee Prize Winner in Stage & Screen

Announcing the  2021 Honey Bee Prize Winner in Stage & Screen

November 2, 2021

In just a few short weeks our Autumn issue will be released into the wild world. In this issue we are honored to showcase the fourth and final Honey Bee Prize winner Kara Davidson!! Kara’s script, “The Farewell Burn” was chosen as the winner of our Stage & Screen category by the one and only Michael Oatman. 

The other finalists in the contest included:

  • Suburbanaut by Alexander Jones
  • Parallax by LN Lewis
  • Self Flagellating Lily by Claire Natale

We are grateful to all who submitted to our 2021 contest and want to express a big thanks again to the four individuals, Kate Gale, Marco Wilkinson, Douglas Manuel, and Michael Oatman who not only judged the contest, but also helped with guidance and feedback along the way.

Cheers,

~The Good Life Review Team

Categories
announcements

2022 Best of the Net Nominations

2022 Best of the Net Nominations

October 5, 2021

Although we’ve only been on the publication scene for a year, we did not want to miss the opportunity to nominate some amazing pieces by some very talented writers for the 2022 Best of the Net prize.

Best of the Net is an annual contest by Sundress Publications designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape. More about the contest can be found here.

This year editors of online journals were allowed to nominate two fiction stories, two creative nonfiction essays, and up to six poems. Pieces published between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 were eligible which for us meant work from our first three issues. We’re thrilled to announce the following nominations:

Congratulations and best of luck snagging that prize!

Cheers,
The Good Life Review Team