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"Evolution" Issue availabe for purchase today
This special double-length issue celebrates the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species. It features seventeen essays from authors such as Tim Winton, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jan DeBlieu, Sven Birkerts, Peter Nichols, and Stephen Jay Gould; twelve stories from luminaries like Ron Rash, Ben Fountain, Edith Pearlman, Arthur Phillips, Steve Almond, and Brock Clarke; poems from Pattiann Rogers, David Wagoner, Robert Wrigley, and Bob Hicok; maps of sixteenth-century bloodletting and Sarah Palin's path to reincarnation; contest winners; Hurricane Katrina revisited by photographer Barry Goldstein; cover art by cartoonist Ivan Brunetti; and much more. [order now!]
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Congratulations to Evolution Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 Ecotone Evolution Contest. This was a contest spanning all genres. First prize - and $1,000 - goes to Emily Taylor for her short story "Beginning," which our judge, Jennifer Ackerman, calls "a beautifully imagined, evocative portrait of the sensory and emotional life of our pre-language ancestors." Second prize is awarded to Kathryn Miles for her essay "Dog is Our Copilot," a "witty and lively exploration of Darwin, dogs, and the complicated human bond with a beloved domesticated species." And our third-prize winner is Lynn Pedersen, for her poem "On Reading about the Illness and death of Darwin's Daughter Annie," which "offers warm insight into Darwin's personal struggles."
Rushdie praises Ecotone
In his introduction to Best American Short Stories 2008, Salman Rushdie names Ecotone and ten other literary magazines as the ones on which "the health of the American short story depends."
Congratulations to Kevin Brockmeier!
Brockmeier's story "The Year of Silence," featured in Ecotone Volume 3, Number 1, was chosen by Salman Rushdie for publication in The Best American Short Stories 2008. Rushdie called it "one of the two most compelling stories from this year's anthology," and selected it to be performed by Rent star Anthony Rapp at the Selected Shorts 25th Anniversary event at the Symphony Space in New York City.
Schrand's Essay wins the Puschcart Prize!
Congratulations to Brandon R. Schrand, whose essay "Eleven Ways to Consider Air," featured in Ecotone Volume 2, Number 2, won a Pushcart Prize. The essay, which also won the 2006 Willard R. Epsy Award and was chosen as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2008, will be re-printed in the Puschart Prize anthology, as well as the forthcoming book, Borne on Air: Essays by Idaho Writers.
Editor-in-Chief David Gessner's essay "Experiencing a Feeling of Wildness" was recently aired on NPR's This I Believe series [listen here]
More great news! Karen E. Bender's story "Candidate," which was re-printed in New Stories from the South 2008, was named a "Distinguished Story of 2007" in Best American Short Stories 2008; and Alicita Rodriguez’s story “Imagining Bisbee" was included in New Stories From the Southwest 2008 (Ohio University Press).
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