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2020

The Best American Short Stories

 Anna Reeser, "Octopus VII" 

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2019

Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award 

Phillip Barron, "What Comes From a Thing" (MRBA-winning manuscript, 2015)

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2011

Pushcart Prize Special Mention
Jill Tidman, “This Is How I Saw It”

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2010

New York Times 100 Notable Books, 2010
Patricia Engel’s collection Vida included her story "Paloma," originally published in Issue 16.1

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2009

Verse Daily Anthology
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, "from Catabolism"
Victoria Chang, "Dear P. XII"
Bob Hicok, "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem"
Lisa Olstein, "Was to Have Been Called Whip-poor-will"

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Best New Poets Anthology
Joshua Robbins, “The Man in Hopper’s Office in a Small City”

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2006

Pushcart Prize Special Mention
Eugene Martin, excerpt of “Waste”

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2000

Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction
Bill Roorbach, “Thanksgiving”

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1998

O. Henry Prize Anthology
Peter Weltner, “Movietone: Detour”
Mary Gaitskill, “Comfort”

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1997

100 Distinguished Stories
Sonia Gernes, “Ye Watchers”

Best American Gay Fiction Prize Anthology
Kolin Ohi, “A Backward Glance”
Stephen Beachy, “Shapes”

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1996

Best American Poetry Prize Anthology
Alice Notley, “The Longest Times”

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