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Ecotone (issn 1553-1775) is published twice yearly by the Department of Creative Writing and The Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We are grateful for funding from the UNCW Department of Creative Writing and the National Endowment…

The editors would like to congratulate the following writers:   Best American Essays 2022 Notable Special Issue The Climate Issue (vol. 17, no. 1) Notable Essay Austin Gaffney The Possum Queen (vol.

Ecotone was honored to be the recipient of AWP’s 2022 Small Press Publisher Award, an annual prize for nonprofit presses and literary journals that “acknowledges the hard work, creativity, and innovation of these presses and journals, and honors their contributions…

“Bubble Gum Fighters” from The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories, copyright © 2022 by Rumi Hara. Reprinted by permission of Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com. ART CREDITS Pages 16–17 (“Everything Will Be All Right in the End”) © Cass Lintz;

The editors would like to congratulate the following writers: Best American essays 2021 notable special Issue The Garden Issue (vol. 16, no. 1) notable essay Kazim Ali Naming Home (vol.

“Doomstead Days” from Doomstead Days, copyright © 2019 by Brian Teare. Reprinted by permission of Nightboat Books. This poem first appeared in Oversound. ART CREDITS Pages 16–17 © Olivia Loorz;

“Two Birdwatchers Talk about America over Zoom and Tequila,” by David Gessner, first appeared in Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis. Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press. Copyright © 2021 David Gessner.

Ecotone was honored to be a finalist for the 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. The editors would also like to congratulate the following writers: The Pushcart Prize 2021 special mention Erin Somers “Waltz”