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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