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	The cover art is selected by the board members of Whispering Prairie Press. The artist whose work is chosen for the cover art of the issue will be awarded $100. Michael Freeman Bus Stop Volume 5, Page 57 Steve Karol Liberty Volume 4, Page 58 Joseph Maino Dancer 1 Volume 3, Page 36 Ernst Ulmer Will Morton Volume 2, Page 44 Fowler C. Jones Liberty Memorial Volume 1, Page 30
	The “Best Of” awards for Prose and Poetry are selected by the editors from blind submissions. $100 will be presented to one “Best Of” Prose and one “Best Of ” Poetry. Angela Cervantes "Ten Hail Marys" Fiction Volume 5, Page 6 Lisa McBride "After-Effects" Poetry Volume 5, Page 50
	The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of our annual collections. Listed below are Pushcart nominations from Kansas City Voices:
	Angela Cervantes "Ten Hail Marys" Fiction Volume 5, Page 6 Lisa McBride "After-Effects" Poetry Volume 5, Page 50 Tina Hacker "Sheba" Poetry Volume 5, Page 59 Patricia Catto "The Death Sisters" Fiction Volume 5, Page 60 Cynthia Pederson "One winter, the painter heard" Poetry Volume 4, Page 6 Fowler Jones III "What Cotton Money Can't Buy" Fiction Volume 4, Page 7 Debra Di Blasi "A bird does not understand the concept of glass" Fiction Volume 4, Page 59 Tim Todd "Just Like That" Fiction Volume 4, Page 64 Amy Fleury "Assumptions" Poetry Volume 4, Page 70 Nick Kowalczyk "Pacific Islander Kowalczyk" Essay Volume 3, Page 9 Brian Daldorph "My Girlfriend Collects Dead Things" Fiction Volume 3, Page 25 Lauren Miller "Harman Rollins' Cadillac" Fiction Volume 3, Page 31 Michelle Langenberg "Beneath the Migrant Stars" Poetry Volume 3, Page 44 Jack Granath "Lapping at the Shore" Poetry Volume 3, Page 50 Curtis M. Urness, Sr. "The Turbulent Blue" Fiction Volume 3, Page 61