Awards 2016

Best American Essays 2016

Notable Special Issue
The Country and City Issue, (issue 22, vol. 12, no. 1)

Notable Essays
Barbara Hurd, “The Ear Is a Lonely Hunter” (issue 20, vol. 11, no. 1)
Kathryn Miles, “Mapping the Bottom of the World” (issue 20, vol. 11, no. 1)

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

Ron Carlson, “Happiness” (issue 18, vol. 10, no. 1)

The Pushcart Prize 2016


Special Mentions
Chantel Acevedo, “Strange and Lovely” (issue 17, vol. 9, no. 2)
Karen E. Bender, “Candidate,” from Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade (Lookout Books)
Alison Hawthorne Deming, “The Pony, the Pig, and the Horse” (issue 18, vol. 10, no. 1)
Camille T. Dungy, “Differentiation” (issue 18, vol. 10, no. 1)
Lauren Groff, “Abundance,” from Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade (Lookout Books)

See next year: 2017