Awards and Accolades

2024

National Magazine Award 2024
General Excellence: Literature, Science and Politics

2023

PUSHCART PRIZE XLVII, 2023 EDITION
Brandon Taylor, “Colonial Conditions
Idra Novey, “The Glacier
Jean Garnett, “There I Almost Am
Shangyang Fang, “Satyr’s Flute

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD, Finalist 2023
ASME Award for Fiction

2022

BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2022
Melissa Febos, “The Wild, Sublime Body"

BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2022
Robin Myers, “Diego de Montemayor
Prageeta Sharma, “Widowing

National Magazine Award, Finalist 2022
Jeremy Atherton Lin, "The Wrong Daddy"

BEST NEW POETS ANTHOLOGY 2022
Madeleine Mori, "Tachistoscope"

BEST SHORT STORIES 2022: THE O. HENRY PRIZEWINNERS
Christos Ikonomou, translated by Karen Emmerich, “Where They Always Meet

Pushcart Prize XLVI, 2022 Edition

Raven Leilani, "Breathing Exercise"

2021

DISTINGUISHED STORIES OF 2021
Olivia Clare, “Some Agonies Over and Over
Brandon Taylor, “Colonial Conditions

NOTABLE ESSAYS AND LITERARY NONFICTION OF 2021
Victor Brombert, “On Rereading
Jean Garnett, “There I Almost Am
Douglas Kearney, “I Killed, I Died
Namwali Serpell, “Race Off: The Fantasy of Race Transformation
Mairead Small Staid, “What Space Is For


Announcing the Winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

The Yale Review and Yale University Press are thrilled to announce that Jonathan Gleason is the inaugural winner of the prize for his manuscript Field Guide to Falling Ill, selected by Meghan O'Rourke.
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