Ecotone, UNCW’s national literary magazine, is one of five finalists for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards. It’s nominated in the category of “Magazines, General Excellence.”
The awards are given annually to honor publications and publishers for their contributions to literary culture. Ecotone was previously nominated in 2018 and 2020. The winners will be announced on June 22 during a virtual ceremony.
Founded in 2005, the semiannual literary magazine features writing and art that reimagines place. Produced by UNCW faculty and MFA students, it champions innovative and underrepresented work. In March 2022, the magazine received the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Small Press Publisher Award. It was a finalist for the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize (2021) and the ASME Award for Fiction (2020).
“We're so happy to be in the company of our fellow finalists, including the renowned Southern literary magazines Oxford American and Arkansas International,” said Anna Lena Phillips Bell, who is in her tenth year as editor. “I'm thankful to CLMP for their unique advocacy for independent publishing and deeply grateful to UNCW for its support of Ecotone's missions to reimagine place and to train new editors and designers through apprenticeships with a national literary magazine.”
The judges reviewed Issue 32, which includes stories, poems and essays edited by MFA alumni and editors emerita Cass Lintz ’22, Kaylie Saidin ’22 and Emily Lowe ’22 and interior spreads by Publishing Laboratory teaching assistants. The current edition of the magazine, “The Ocean Issue,” features cover art by Ollie Loorz ’23 and Tory Tarpley ’21.
Learn more at ecotonemagazine.org.
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