2025
National Magazine Award, Finalist 2025
Brandy Jensen, "The Polycrisis"
BEST SHORT STORIES 2025: THE O. HENRY PRIZEWINNERs
Ling Ma, "Winner"
Daniel Saldaña París, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, “Rosaura at Dawn"
2024
National Magazine Award 2024
General Excellence: Literature, Science and Politics
PUSHCART PRIZE XLVIII, 2024 EDITION
Merritt Tierce, “Winners”
Donika Kelly, "Self-Portrait with Friend"
Gregory Pardlo, "Theater Selfie"
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”