Ecotone (magazine)

Ecotone
Editor-in-chiefDavid Gessner
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyBiannual
Circulation2,500 to 5,000
PublisherEmily Louise Smith
Founded 2005 (2005-month)
CompanyUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington
CountryUSA
Based inWilmington, North Carolina
LanguageEnglish
Websiteecotonemagazine.org
ISSN1553-1775 (print)
2165-2651 (web)

Ecotone is an American literary magazine established in 2005 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington by David Gessner, Kimi Faxon Hemingway, and Heather Wilson. It is based at the Department of Creative Writing and produced by faculty and students in the Master of Fine Arts program at the university. The magazine publishes two issues per year, focussing on different aspects of place-based writing and art. Each issue endeavors to bring together ""the literary and scientific, the personal and biological, the urban and rural."[1] Issues include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and comics.

The magazine has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.[2]

Reception

Works published in the magazine have been chosen for inclusion in anthologies, such as the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The Best American Short Stories 2019, The Best American Short Stories 2022, as well as The Best American Poetry and The Best American Essays.

In 2014 an anthology of selections from the magazine's first ten years was published by Lookout Books.[3]

Awards and honors

  • 2023 Firecracker Award, winner in the category Magazines/General Excellence[4]
  • 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award, Winner[5]
  • 2020 AWP Small Press Publisher Award, Finalist[5]

References

  1. ^ "Ecotone: Reimagining Place". Poets and Writers. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  2. ^ "UNCW's Ecotone Magazine receiving $10,000 NEA Grant". wwaytv3.com. January 11, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  3. ^ Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade. Lookout Books. 2014. p. 412. ISBN 0984900098.
  4. ^ Cropp, Caroline. "Ecotone Magazine Honored for Excellence". uncw.edu. University of North Caroline Wilmington. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "AWP Small Press Publisher Award Winners". awpwriter.org. Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Retrieved August 22, 2024.