#27, Fall 2023

Winner, 2023 The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Kevin Hershey, Three Fairies

Notable:
Sarah Harley, Lost at Sea

Finalists: 
Elizabeth Bird, The Grandma You Get
Graham Campbell, Losing Camelot
Michael Cannistraci, Family Day at the Psych Ward
Laili Gohartaj, Fossils 
Kathryn Jankowski, Bothered and Bewildered 
Tawnya Layne, A Desert Pilgrimage: Walking towards Our Wildish Selves
Robin Michel, The Bride Doll
Gloria Nixon-John, The Apricot Tree
Delia Rainey, Damp Documents

#26, Spring 2023

Alan Caldwell, Gravel
Melissa Greenwood, Colored Pencils
Summer Hammond, Pulling Away
Linda Petrucelli, Imaginary Friend
Ryan Walker, Five
Melissent Zumwalt, Games of Chance

#25, Winter 2022-23

John Backman, My Short and Tragic Tap Dancing Career
Melissa Greenwood, Help, Please!
James Morena, Descended into the Carnage
Rina Palumbo, Asthma
Mike Wilson, My Bike

#24, Fall 2022

Winner, 2022 The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Shana Ross, Story with Dog 

Notable:
Emily Choate, Field Day, 1990
Wendy Fontaine, Game of Life

Finalists:
M Tamara Cutler, Michigan: A Divorce Story
Rachel Laverdiere, Everything Leads Back to Where It Starts
Zachary Ostraff, Chasing That Pig

#23, Early Fall 2022

Brad Gibault, Uncle Monty
Tara Guy, Broken Bread
Anita Kestin, Chatham

#22, Spring 2022

Catherine Con, Mangifera Indica
Brad Gibault, The Myth of Pat
Mark Lucius, When You Wish Upon a Star
Beverley Stevens, A Proper Sunday Lunch
Marianne Worthington, Young and Red-headed

#21, Winter 2021-22

Wendy Fontaine, Green Pepper Standoff
Garry Howze, Learn Your Letters 
Ann Kathryn Kelly, Propped
Dana Shavin, All You Can't Eat
Catherine Stratton, Our Secret
Melissent Zumwalt, The Swing Set

#20, The Barnhill Prize 2021

Winner, 2021 The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Beatrice Y. Motamedi, How to Make Jeweled Rice (Shirin Polo)

Notable:

Anita Cabrera, The Benefit of Others
Frances Thomas, Learning Shame 

Finalists:

Catherine Con, Fueillemort
Carroll Grossman, Handlebar Ride
Douglas Imbrogno, The Egg
Lina Lau, Good Girl
Paulina Pinsky, Other Mother

#19, Spring 2021

d. e. fulford, 1992-1996
Diane Gottlieb, Deadman's Float
Linda Jordan, Boyhood in 3 Parts
Marie Manilla, Sasquatch
Anna Oberg, Thundersnow
Virginia Watts, Sleds

#18, Winter 2020-21

Miriam Glassman, The Bibliosquatter
Therése Halscheid, Incident
Kent Jacobson, What She Didn't Say
Janine Kovac, Breaking Character
Sharon Waters, Straight Hair Be Damned
Hannah Williams, Ring and Rabbit

#17, The Barnhill Prize 2020

Winner, 2020  The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Marsha Lynn Smith, 4 Generations of Black Hair Matters 

Finalists 
Desi Allevato, Compartment Syndrome 
Elana Margot, Big Blue 
Vanessa Remmers, A History of Butterflies 
Cheryl Skory Suma, If The Snow Never Melted 

#16, Spring 2020

Sarah Ahrens, Wonder Woman and The Wolf
Philip Arnold, The Miraculous Marvel of Lightning Eyes
Miriam Glassman, Baby Steps
Brendan Shea, Phillip's Burial
Brenna Sowder, Breathing Lessons

#15, Winter 2019-20

Wendy Fontaine, Bouncing in Place
Billie Hinton, Places I Went with My Dad
Stephen J. Lyons, Young Chicago Boy Talks to God
Amie McGraham, Silent Spring
Amy Miller, On Stevens Creek
Charlotte Roth, Rings and Witches

#14, The Barnhill Prize 2019 

Winner, 2019 
The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Mary J. Mahoney, Suburbs Plagued by Foraging Deer

Finalists
Neema Avashia, A Hindu Hillbilly Elegy
Rochelle Harris Cox, North Georgia Gothic
Dorian Fox, The Fence
Jenna Korsmo, Sister Cats
Jessica Langlois, Ways to Die in Alabama
Elizabeth Lantz, The Imaginary Writer
Elizabeth Muller, Revival of The Fittest
Lisa López Smith, Turning 37
Laura Stanfill, Birdsong in The Key of Brain Injury

#13, Winter 2018-19

John Jacobson, Eight-Millimeter Film
Stephen Lottridge, What’s the Point of Rabbits?
Tracy Line, Traversing Icy Roads
Virginia Petrucci, Who Is Ben?
Dana VanderLugt, The Orchard

#12, Fall 2018

Christopher Cascio, Kid
Heidi Davidson-Drexel, Your Boss
Aliza Dube, Loved to Death
David McVey, On the Wonder of the World
Anne Noonan, Stink Tree
Joan Potter, Do You Think of Yourself as Jewish?
Lisa Rizzo, Snowsuit Prisoners
Nikki Sambitsky, Penny Drop

#11, Spring/Summer 2018

Luanne Castle, The Secret Kotex Club
Sam Chiarelli, When the Leaves Forget to Be Green
Ginger Dehlinger, Clouds from Up and Down
Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Portrait of My Mother in Black and White
Risa Nye, Visions of LaDonna
Scott Peterson, Cars: An Unrequited Love Story

#10, Winter 2017-18

Melissa Mesku, In All Caps
Heather Pegas, Free Range
Dorothy Rice, Prom and Other Fairy Tales
Nora Seilheimer, Back into Movement
Paulette Zander, Dominoes and Biscuits

#9, Fall 2017

Gina Ferrara, Victims or Others?
Andy Harper, How to Be on Time
Anne Muccino, Sepia
Jonathan Sonnenberg, Shooting Stars
Victoria Waddle, A Bowl Full of Jelly
Teige Weidner, Sentence Enhancers

#8, Summer 2017

Mary Gustafson, The Price of Hunger
Whitney Mackman, David Duchovny, I Know You Could Love Me
Amy Miller, Cigarettes: It’s What’s for Dinner
Joey Nicoletti, Extinction Wednesday
Jody Peltason, The Third Strongest Girl in the Third Grade
William Reichard, A Burning Man
Natalie Rodriguez, The Permission of Alcohol 

#7, Spring 2017

Abby Burns, Uninvited Hauntings
Michael Chin, The Bionic Elbow
Minna Dubin, Closer to Her
Susan Grant, The Gate
Amanda Kay, The Weight of Smoke
Gleah Powers, The Three Times I Saw My Father
Helen, Ruggieri, The Introvert’s Survival Guide
Gretchen Uhrinek, Dan

#6, Winter 2016-17

Sarah Bigham, The Drill
Ann Fisher, Major, Minor
Michelle Kendall, Butterball
Kate E Lore, The Go-Cart
Sheila Luna, The Lipstick Helps
Michelle McMillan-Holifield, After the Fire
Jere Pfister, The River

#5, Fall 2016

Emma Bolden, The Shalt Nots
Jan Charone-Sossin, The Day Chatty Cathy Stopped Talking
Nadia Greasley, The Map of  France
Mary Gustafson, Time Stops
Therése Halscheid, We All Fall Down
Angela Lush, The Shears
Melinda Renkin, Last Night I Found Your Headstone
Nancy Wick, The Big Lie

#4, Summer 2016

Gregory Fletcher, manhood, /ˈmanˌho͝od/, noun
Rich H. Kenney, Jr., Sink or Swim
Karen McDermott, Doll Blanket
Mariana McDonald, The Snake
J.R. Tappenden, Heritage Pass
Bobby Wilson, That Good Hair

#3, Spring 2016

Rebecca Chekouras, July 11
Ryan C. Daily, Home/Life
Janet Garber, A Closet of One’s Own
Tom Lin, Godzilla
Ana Christina Peters, War
Emily Rems,  Extra Help
Allison Spector,  The Bucket Boys 
Margaret Redmond Whitehead, Over the Limit

#2, Winter 2015-16

Daniel Blokh, Listen
Vincent J. Fitzgerald, Thanksgiving Mourning
Trista Hurley-Waxali, A Steady Application
Kara Knickerbocker, The Mark I Left
Jane Rosenberg LaForge, The Egg

#1, Fall 2015

Faith Gong, Within an Inch of My Life
Patricia Hopper, Temple Bar
Connie Kinsey, Marybelle
Susan Krakoff, The Space in Between
Jeremy Paden, Doubt Matters
Amy Sprague, Beauty Walks a Razor’s Edge

Launch Issue

Douglas Imbrogno, Happy Again
Margaret Ward McClain, The Simons House
Jeremy Dae Paden, This World Is Not My Home