A Note from the Editor

At the New England Review we regularly recognize the high quality of all the writing selected for publication in this magazine, but it always gives us particular delight to note some recent honors awarded to authors whose work has appeared in our pages. For a more detailed and frequently updated list of our contributors' publications and achievements, please see the "News and Notes" page on the NER website (www.nereview.com) or sign up to get our quarterly e-newsletter.

The Pushcart Prize xxxv, published in November 2010, includes three poems from NER: "Landscape with Arson," by Jennifer Grotz (30.1), "They Say" by Laura Kasischke (30.2), and "The Dark Rides" by Chase Twichell (30.2). In addition, the following stories were selected for "special mention": "Extended Care" by P. J. Murphy (30.1), "Black Days" by Geoffrey Becker (30.2), "What Can't Not Happen" by Peter LaSalle (30.3), and "A Street Guide to Providence" by Samuel Ligon (30.1). "The Literary Scene Changes" by Ted Solotaroff (30.3) was selected for "special mention" in nonfiction.

Four works from New England Review were selected for 2010's "Best American" anthologies: G. C. Waldrep's "Their Faces Shall Be As Flames" (30.1), Chase Twichell's "The Dark Rides" (30.2), and Sarah Murphy's "Letter to the Past After Long Silence" (29.4) appear in Best American Poetry, selected by Amy Gerstler and David Lehman, and Lori Ostlund's "All Boy" (30.3) appears in Best American Short Stories, selected by Richard Russo and Heidi Pitlor. This volume cites Louise Jarvis Flynn's "Irish Twins" (30.3), Peter LaSalle's "What Can't Not Happen" (30.3), and Lori Ostlund's "Talking Fowl with My Father" (30.3) as "Other Distinguished Stories of 2009." Best American Essays lists Michael Coffey's "Free Jazz" (30.2) among the "Notable Essays of 2009" and NER's "Remembering Ted Solotaroff" feature (30.3) among the "Notable Special Issues of 2009."

We also recently learned that three poems originally published in NER were selected by Kevin Young for next year's Best American Poetry: Eric Pankey's "Cogitatio Mortis" (31.1), Natasha Trethewey's "Elegy" (30.4), and Jennifer Grotz's "Poppies" (31.1). The anthology will be published next fall.

Several NER contributors won significant fellowships this year. Four were recently awarded Guggenheim fellowships for poetry in 2011: Claudia Emerson (16.1), Kimberly Johnson (32.1), Maurice Manning (31.2), and D. A. Powell (29.4).

Nine of our poets and fiction writers were awarded Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts for $25,000 each: Michelle Boisseau (8.1), Jericho Brown (28.1), Richard Foerster (21.3), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (25.4), Norman Lock (30.2), Shara McCallum (30.4), Matthew Nienow (31.4), Donald Platt (16.4), and Alexandra Teague (25.1,2).

Chase Twichell (30.2) won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award, sponsored by Claremont Graduate University, for her book Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press), and Sara Elizabeth Johnson (29.4) received a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award of $25,000.

Among the book prizes won by NER authors are the following: Shannon Cain was awarded the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, judged by Alice Mattison. Her short story manuscript, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2011. The title story was first published in NER (27.2). Gregory Blake Smith was awarded the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. His story collection, The Law of Miracles, will be published in 2011 with a cash prize of $1,500. This collection contains two stories that first appeared in NER: "Being and Nothingness (Not a Real Title)" (30.3) and "A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter's Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap" (26.1).

Robin Ekiss (29.2) won the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for her first poetry collection, The Mansion of Happiness. Joshua Harmon...