Every year, New England Review sees poems, stories, and essays from among its pages receive honors and distinctions from respected publications that recognize and anthologize works of literary merit. Our recent prizewinners and honorary mentions are listed below by year.

2019 Anthologies

Pushcart Prize XLIII (November 2018)
Nomi Stone, “Wonder Days” (poetry)
Special Mentions:
Kim McLarin, “Eshu Finds Work” (nonfiction)
Erika Meitner “The Practice of Depicting Matter as It Passes from Radiance to Decomposition” (poetry)

2018 Anthologies

PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Celeste Mohammed, “Six Months” (38.1)

O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 
Michael Parker, “Stop n Go” (38.1)

Best American Short Stories 2018, guest editor Roxane Gay, ed. Heidi Pitlor
Yoon Choi, “The Art of Losing” (38.2); Other Distinguished Stories: Alyssa Pelish, “The Pathetic Fallacy”

Best American Poetry 2018, guest editor Dana Gioia, ed. David Lehman
Adrienne Su, “Substitution” (38.1)

Best American Travel Writing 2018, guest editor Cheryl Strayed, ed. Jason Wilson
Barrett Swanson, “Notes from a Last Man” (38.2)

Best American Essays 2018, guest editor Hilton Als, ed. Robert Atwan Notable: Evan Lavender-Smith, “Post-its,” Kim McLarin, “Eshu Finds Work,” and Clarence Orsi, “Take Stock”

New Stories from the Midwest, guest editor Antonya Nelson
Steve de Jarnatt, “Wraiths in Swelter”

Pushcart XLII (November 2017)
Safiya Sinclair, “Good Hair,” 37.2 (Poetry)
Ethan Chatagnier, “Miracle Fruit,” 37.4 (Fiction)
Special Mentions:
Lia Purpura, “All the Fierce Tethers” (Nonfiction)
David Brainard, “In the Desert” (Fiction)
Ben Eisman, “Right-Hearted” (Fiction)
Wayne Miller, “On Progress” (Poetry)

 

2017 Anthologies

Best New Poets 2017
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Rail,” 38.3 

Best American Essays 2017
Notable: Alia Volz, “Chasing Arrows”
Lia Purpura, “All the Fierce Tethers”

Best American Short Stories 2017
Notable: Christine Sneed, “Older Sister,” 37.1

Best American Poetry 2017
Monica Youn, “Greenacre,” 37.1

O. Henry Prize Stories
Genevieve Plunkett, “Something for a Young Woman,” 36.3

Golden State 2017: The Best New Writing from California
Vincent Poturica, “Dad’s House,” 36.4 (Fiction)

Pushcart XLI
Lisa Taddeo, “Forty-Two,” 36.1 (Fiction)
Eric Wilson, “I Sing You for an Apple,” 36.2 (Nonfiction)
Emma Duffy-Comparone, “The Devil’s Triangle,” 36.4 (Fiction)
Special Mentions:
Cate Marvin, “High School in Suzhou,” 36.1 (Poetry)
Ocean Vuong, “To My Father / To My Unborn Son,” 36.1 (Poetry)
Camille Dungy, “A Shade North of Ordinary,” 36.2 (Nonfiction)

(Congratulations are also due to our fiction editor Janice Obuchowski, whose story “Sully” garnered a special mention in Pushcart XLI. It can be found in the Summer 2015 edition of the Gettysburg Review)

 

 

2016

New Stories from the Midwest (New American Press)
Emily Mitchell, “Three Marriages”
Distinguished:
Christine Sneed, “The Couplehood Jubilee,” 34.1; “Clear Conscience,” 35.3
Charlie Baxter, “Sloth,” 34.3-4

Best American Short Stories 2016
Sharon Solwitz, “Gifted,” 36.2
Notables:
Carla Panciera, “The Kind of People Who Look at Art,” 36.2
Michael X. Wang, “Further News of the Defeat,” 36.2
Rav Grewal-Kök, “The Bolivian Navy,” 36.4
Mateal Lovaas Ishihara, “Crossing Harvard Yard,” 36.4

Best American Essays 2016
Jill Sisson Quinn, “Big Night,” 36.1
Notables:
Kelly Grey Carlisle, “Permutations of X,” 35.4
Ursula Hegi, “I’m Searching for a Home for Unwed Girls,” 36.3

Best American Poetry 2016
Patrick Rosal, “At The Tribunals,” 35.4
Cate Marvin, “High School in Suzhou,” 36.1

 

 

2015

Best American Short Stories
Laura Lee Smith, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” 35.1
Notables:
Charles Baxter, “Sloth,” 34.3-4
Leslie Bazzett, “Studies in Composition,” 34.3-4
Ricardo Nuila, “At the Bedside,” 35.1
Christine Sneed, “Clear Conscience,” 35.3

Best American Mysteries
Steven Heighton, “Shared Room on Union,” 35.1

Best American Essays
Kate Lebo, “The Loudproof Room,” 35.2
Notables:
Jeff Staiger, “Kindle 451,” 34.3-4
Larry I. Palmer, “The Haircut,” 35.1
Ben Miller, “Village Bakery,” 35.2

Pushcart XXXIX
Tarfia Faizullah, “The streetlamp above me darkens,” 34.1 (Poetry)
Special Mentions:
Michael Coffey, “Sons,” 34.1 (Fiction)

 

 

2014

Best American Short Stories
Notables:
David Heronry, “Less Awful,” 33.4
Best AmericanEssays
Notables:
Kathleen Chaplin, “The Death Knock,” 34.1
Marian Crotty, “It’s New Year’s Eve and This Is Dubai,” 34.2

O. Henry Prize Stories
Maura Stanton, “Oh Shenandoah,” 33.2

Pushcart XXXVII
Jake Adam York, “Self-Portrait as Superman,” 33.3 (Poetry)

 

 

2013

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Series
Essays
Matthew Vollmer, “Keeper of the Flame,” 33.1
Mystery
David McFadden, “The Ring of Kerry,” 33.2

Scribner’s Best American Poetry
Laura Kasischke, “Perspective,” 32.4
Adrienne Su, “On Writing,” 33.1
Paisley Rekdal, “Birthday Poem,” 33.2