Best of the Small Presses 2022
Two stories from the
New England Review have been selected for inclusion in the next Pushcart Prize collection: McKenna Marsden’s “Suffering in Motion” (
NER 40.4) and Lindsay Starck’s “Baikal” (
NER 41.4). The XLVI edition will be published in November 2021.
McKenna Marsden, a current MFA candidate at the University of Maryland-College Park, grew up in Oregon and spent the majority of their adult life in greater Boston. “Suffering in Motion” was their first publication. Marsden talks to
NER staff reader
Laur Freymiller about “Suffering in Motion” in our Behind the Byline feature. The story is also read aloud by