: Awards :
Best American Mystery Stories 2012
Nathan Oates's story "Looking for Service," which appeared in the Spring 2011 Antioch Review, has been selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2012. The book will be in in the fall.
Premio Aztlan Award
Lucrecia Guerrero's book Tree of Sighs has been award the Pre,io Aztlan Award for U.S. Latino writers. The award will be presented at the National Latino Writers' Conference in New Mexico in May. Lucrecia is the author of two stories which appeared in the Antioch Review: "Rings" in summer 2008 and "Sisters" in spring 2011.
Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri
Peter LaSalle’s story “Lunch Across the Bridge” and Michael J. MacLeod’s story “Horn Hunter” have been included in Best of the West 2011.. Both stories were first published in the Antioch Review, LaSalle’s in Spring 2010 and MacLeod’s in Fall 2009.
May Swenson Poetry Award 2011
About the Dead by Travis Mossotti has been awarded the May Swenson Prize for poetry and will be published in summer 2011 by the Utah State University Press. The book includes "Variations on a Political Theme" which first appeared in the summer 2009 Antioch Review.
National Magazine Award Finalist Redux, Redux
For the third year running, the Antioch Review has been named a finalist for the Annual National Magazine Award. The Review is the smallest magazine selected in any award category. This year's nomination is in the "Essay & Criticism" category for "The Physics of Speed" by William Giraldi, an essay about the death of his father in a motorcycle accident. It was published in the Fall 2010 issue of the Review.
Congratulations to W. S. Merwin, New US Poet Laureate
W. S. Merwin has been named the Poet Laureate of the United States. He has published more than 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. His work has appeared in the Antioch Review since 1970. In the editorial introducing our Summer 1998 issue, in which Merwin's work is the lead, Robert S. Fogarty wrote: "W. S. Merwin is one of America's most distinguished poets and we are pleased to present excerpts from his forthcoming epic poem, The Folding Cliffs."
Kenneth McClane's Color Wins Award
Kenneth McClane's book of essays, Color: Essays on Race, Family and History (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), was named a winner of a Gold Medal, 2009 Book of the Year Award for Essays, ForeWord Magazine. Several of the essays included in the book were first published in the Antioch Review. The University of Notre Dame Press will also reprint his earlier collection, Walls: Essays 1985-1990, in September 2010. That book includes an essay "A Death in the Family" that first appeared in the Antioch Review and was McClane's first published essay.
National Magazine Award Finalist Redux
For the second year running, the Antioch Review has been named a finalist for the Annual National Magazine Award. The Review is the smallest magazine selected in any award category. This year's nomination is in the "fiction" category for the story "The Coat" by German writer Uwe Timm, translated by Robert C. Conard, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton. The story was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the Review.
The Norma Farber First Book Prize
Scott Coffel has been awarded the Poetry Society of America's 2010 Norma Farber First Book Prize for Toucans in the Artic, published by Etruscan Press. The book includes two poems "Oscar Wilde" and "Mild Worlds Elsewhere" originally published in the Spring 1995 and Spring 1998 issues of the Antioch Review.
The Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Beth Bachmann has been named the 2010 winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The award is given to honor a poet's first book. Bachmann's Temper was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009. Her poem "Hunger" appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of the Antioch Review.
May Swenson Poetry Award
Zorba's Daughter by Elisabeth Murawski has been awarded the May Swenson Prize for poetry and will be published in summer 2010 by the Utah State University Press. The book includes "Frightened by Italy" which first appeared in the Fall 2005 Antioch Review.
Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction
In Envy County by Joan Frank has been named the winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. The book includes a story "Betting on Men," which first appeared in the Fall 2005 Antioch Review, and has been published by the University of Notre Dames Press.
Whiting Writers' Award
Vu Tran is among the ten writers to be awarded the Whiting Writers' Award this year. His story "Solomon's Dream" appeared in the Fall 1998 Antioch Review.
National Magazine Award Finalist
The Antioch Review is proud to announce that it has been named a finalist in the essay category for the 44th Annual National Magazine Award. This award is the first time the Review has won this award. The winning essay is “Vickie’s Pour House: A Soldier’s Peace” by Maureen McCoy.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced its 2009 Literature Award Winners. Mark Strand, a member of our National Advisory Board, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry to honor an entire body of work. Another board member, T. Coraghessan Boyle, is a newly elected member of the Academy.
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Kathryn Ma’s book, All That Work and Still No Boys, has been selected the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. The book, which will be published by the University of Iowa Press in September 2009, includes the story “What I Know Now,” which originally appeared in the Winter 2003 Antioch Review.
Melissa Delbridge Receives New Writers Award
Melissa Delbridge’s memoir Family Bible has won the University of Iowa Press Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and has been published by the University of Iowa Press. It includes “Gun and Bait,” first published as “West Green and River Bend, Gun and Bait,” in the Fall 2006 special memoir issue of the Antioch Review.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses 2009 includes a story by Edith Pearlman. “Elder Jinks” was first published in the Fall 2007 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Selected for the Best American Poetry 2009 edited by David Wagoner were "Freud" by James Cummins and "The Way of All the Earth" by K. A. Hays. They appeared, respectively, in the Summer 2008 and Winter 2008 Antioch Review.
Flannery O’Connor Award
Andrew Porter’s book The Theory of Light and Matter has been selected the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 2008. It includes two stories, “Coyotes” and “Connecticut” first published, respectively, in the Winter 2003 and Winter 2005 Antioch Review.
Best American Short Stories
Mark Wisniewski’s story “Straightaway” has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2008. The story was first published in the Spring 2007 Antioch Review.
Best American Mystery Stories
Peter LaSalle’s story “Tunis and Time” and Nathan Oates’s story “The Empty House” have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008. Both stories were first published in the Antioch Review, LaSalle’s in Winter 2007 and Oates’s in Fall 2007.
Best New Poets 2008
Adam Day’s poem “Hiding Again in London” and Brady Rhoades's poem "Cesar Vallejo Is Dead" have been selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2008. The poems were first published in the Summer 2007 and Winter 2008 Antioch Review.
Best of the West
Benjamin Percy’s story “In the Rough” has been selected for inclusion in The Best of the West, volume 6. The story was first published in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.
Flannery O’Connor Award
Peter LaSalle’s book Tell Borges If You See Him was selected the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 2007. It includes two stories, “Nocture” and “Preseason: The Texas Football Dead” first published, respectively, in the Summer 2002 and Fall 2005 Antioch Review.
John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Lee Montgomery’s book Whose World Is It? was selected the winner of the 2007 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. It includes “We the Girly Girls from Massachusetts” first published in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses includes a story by Risteard O’Keitinn. “Dogged” was first published in the Summer 2005 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Amit Majmudar’s poem “By Accident” was selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2007. The poem was first published in the Fall 2006 Antioch Review.
Best New Poets 2007
LaWanda Walters’s poem “Her Art” has been selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2007. The poem was first published in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.
National Book Award
Lily Tuck has been awarded the 2004 National Book Award in fiction for her book The News From Paraguay. Her stories “Limbo,” “Gold Leaf,” and “Verdi” appeared in the Antioch Review between 1993 and 1997.
Best New Poets 2005
Hailey Leithauser’s poem “The Moon Speaks of Alzheimer's” has been selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2005. The poem was first published in the Summer 2004 Antioch Review.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses will include work by Nicholas Montemarano and a translation of Aleksandr Kushner’s story by Mark Halperin & Dinara Georgeoliani. Both stories were first published in the Winter 2001 Antioch Review.
New Stories from the South
Included in New Stories from the South 2005 edited by Shannon Ravenel was Ethan Hauser’s “The Charm of the Highway Median” which was published in the Fall 2004 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Selected for the Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley was “The Gold Star” by Albert Goldbarth.
Best American Short Stories
Selected for Best American Short Stories 2001, guest edited by Barbara Kingsolver, was “The Apple Tree” by Trevanian which we published in the Spring 2000 Antioch Review.
New Stories from the South
Included in New Stories from the South 2001 edited by Shannon Ravenel was Edith Pearlman’s “Skin Deep” which was published in the Fall 2000 Antioch Review.
The Antioch Review 2006 Award for Distinguished Prose
The Antioch Review is pleased to announce Bruce Jay Friedman as the recipient of its 2006 Award for Distinguished Prose. The award is made possible through the gift of the Lloyd family of Atlanta, Georgia in memory of Lynda Lloyd, an Antioch College alum, who died in 1998.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses include poems by Jacqueline Osherow, "V. (Psalm 37 at Auschwitz)" and Olena Kalytiak Davis, "Six Apologies, Lord" from the Spring 2001 and Fall 199 Antioch Review. Also included in the book is the essay "Milton at the Bat" by Jeffrey Hammond from the Winter 1999 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Selected for the Best American Poetry were “After 65” by Richard Howard and "I stopped writing poetry . . " by Bernard Welt. The poems first appeared in the Winter 2000 and Summer 2000 Antioch Review.
