Awards
Ecotone supports its contributors by promoting and nominating work for awards after publication. Since 2016, work by Ecotone contributors have been reprinted in or received special mentions from prominent outlets including those shown below. For a complete list of awards by year, see the links at the bottom of this page.
AWP Small Press Publisher Award
Winner (2022)
Finalist (2020)
CLMP Firecracker Award
Finalist (2020, 2018)
Whiting Literary Magazine Prize
Finalist (2020)
ASME Award for Fiction
Finalist (2020)
The Pushcart Anthology
5 reprints, 18 special mentions
Best American Essays
4 notable special issues, 2 reprints, 11 notable essays
Best American Short Stories
2 reprints, 4 notable essays
Best American Comics
1 notable
Best Spiritual Literature
5 reprints
Chautauqua Janus Prize
2 finalists
Current year awards:
AWP’s 2022 Small Press Publisher Award
Best American Essays 2022
Notable Special Issue
The Climate Issue (issue 31, vol. 17, no. 1)
Notable Essays
Austin Gaffney, “The Possum Queen” (issue 30, vol. 16, no. 2)
David Gessner, “Losing Everything” (issue 31, vol. 17, no. 1)
Cecily Parks, “The Past in Pastoral” (issue 31, vol. 17, no. 1)
Best American Science & Nature Writing 2022
Notable Essay
Jennifer Case, “A Cost Accounting of Birth” (issue 30, vol. 16, no. 2)
Best American Short Stories 2022
Kim Coleman Foote, “Man of the House” (issue 30, vol. 16, no. 2)
Best of the Net 2022
Samiya Bashir, “How Not To Stay Unshot in the U.S.A.” (An Ecotone Almanac)
Best Spiritual Literature 2022
Kenji C. Liu, “A Spectre Is Haunting Street View” (issue 30, vol. 16, no. 2)
The Pushcart Prize 2022
Special Mentions
Destiny O. Birdsong, “Build Back a Body” (issue 29, vol. 16, no. 1)
Rose Skelton, “Little Starts” (issue 29, vol. 16, no. 1)
Jennifer Tseng, “Most of My Dream Fathers Are Women” (issue 28, vol. 15, no. 1)
Awards List Archives
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