ACCOLADES
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Best American Essays
2015
The Best American Science and Nature Writing Anthology
“Curious” by Kim Todd, 15.2, Spring 2015
2014
Best American Essays
“Someone Else” by Chris Offutt, 14.2, Spring 2014
2013
Best American Essays
“The Book of Knowledge” by Steven Harvey, 13.2, Spring 2013
“Triage” by Jon Kerstetter, 13.2, Spring 2013
2005
Best American Essays
“Small Rooms in Time” by Ted Kooser, 5.2, Spring 2004
“Dog Days” by Sam Pickering, 5.2, Spring 2004
Pushcart Prizes
2024
The Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses
“Church of the Goat Man” by Kathleen Driskell, 24.2, Spring 2023
2023
The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses
“Tikkun Olam Ted” by Nicole Graev Lipson, 22.2, Spring 2021
2016
The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses
“Resting Place” by Kate Levin (A Beautiful Things publication, Sept. 28, 2015)
2014
The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses
“Writing and Publishing a Memoir: What in the Hell Have I Done?” by Andre Dubus III, 14.1, Fall 2012
2011
The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses
“The Caul of Inshallah” by Mohja Kahf, 11.1, Fall 2009
2010
The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses
“Afterimage” by Margot Singer, 9.2, Spring 2008
2005
The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses
“Speed of Memory” by Brad Younkin, 4.2, Spring 2003
Prizes & Literary Sightings
2017
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for Art of the Essay
Angela Morales, the 2014 winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize for her manuscript The Girls in My Town
2015
Literary Spotlight Feature
The Writer magazine’s November 2015 issue features River Teeth in their Literary Spotlight section
January Longreads Member Pick
“A Meditation on Pain” by Ira Sukrungruang, 16.1, Fall 2014
2012
The Best Spiritual Writing
“Burial Cloth Removed” by Jill Noel Kandel, 12.1, Fall 2012
2011
Best of Small Presses List from the National Book Critics Circle
A Double Life by Lisa Catherine Harper, the winner of the 2010 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize ranked #4
2008
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers (summer reading list)
The Enders Hotel by Brandon R. Schrand, winner of the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize
2007
“Channeling Thoreau” (NPR) and “Box of Wind”
(Chicago Public Radio), archived under Nov. 9
Excerpts from “To Box the Wind” by Tom Montgomery-Fate, 9.1, Fall 2007
Ninth Letter podcast archive, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“In/Out” by Jo Scott-Coe
Best American Essays Notables
2024
- “The Third Eye of the Oyster” by Sonya Huber, 25.1, Fall 2023
- “The Birds Are Gone” by Julia Purks, 24.2, Spring 2023
- “Caspian Elegies” by Layli Shirani,24.2, Spring 2023
- “The Texas Motel” by Jill Talbot, 24.2, Spring 2023
2023
- “Pappy” by Andre Dubus III, 23.2, Spring 2022
- “Safety Dance” by David McGlynn, 24.1, Fall 2022
- “Giving, or Refuge Love Language” by Lilly U. Nguyen, 24.1, Fall 2022
- “Truths and Lies” by Ira Sukrungruang, 23.2, Spring 2022
2022
- “The Hayflick Limit” by Jessica Franken, 22.2, Spring 2021
- “New Harlem,” by Shamecca Harris, 22.2, Spring 2021
- “Security” by Bret Lott, 23.1, Fall 2021
- “Time Presses,” by Emily Waples, 22.2, Spring 2021
2021
- “Star Tables” by Kelle Groom – 21.2, Spring 2020
- “This 5,000 Year Old House” by Megan Harlan, 22.1, Fall 2020
- “Kate Chopin, My Mother, and Me” by Nicole Graev Lipson, 21.2, Spring 2020
- “Father and Son Buried in One Grave” by Molly Rideout, 22.1, Fall 2020
2020
- “Jell-O: An Irrespective” by Molly Gallentine, 21.1, Fall 2019
- “Of Milk and Stars” by Anne McGrath, 20.2, Spring 2019
- “The Whiteness of the Weasel” by E. J. Myers, 20.2, Spring 2019
- “Terrible Sanity” by Sam Pickering, 20.2, Spring 2019
- “Alone, Together” by Jill Talbot, 20.2, Spring 2019
2019
2018
- “The Descent” by Andre Dubus III, 18.2, Spring 2017
- “Daughter of a Gun” by Sarah Curtis Graziano, 19.1, Fall 2017
- “Blur” by Kerry Muir, 18.2, Spring 2017
2017
- “If Woman Is Five” by Sonya Huber, 17.2, Spring 2016
- “Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch”
by David Lazar, 18.1, Fall 2016 - “How Long Before You Go Dry” by Alex Lemon, 18.1, Fall 2016
- “Wren Boy” by Rebecca McClanahan, 17.2, Spring 2016
- “Thieves” by Jerald Walker, 17.2, Spring 2016
- “Unpinned” by Heather Gemmen Wilson, 17.2, Spring 2016
2016
- “A Grave on the High Plains” by Stephen Benz – 17.1 Fall 2015
- “Going Back to Plum Island” by Jill Christman – 17.1 Fall 2015
- “Breath” by Judith Kitchen – 16.2 Spring 2015
- “Evidence” by Jennifer Lunden -16.2 Spring 2015
2015
- “En Memoriam” by Chelsea Biondolillo, 15.2, Spring 2014
- “Black Marks” by Sydney Lea, 16.1, Fall 2014
- “An Inability to Control Objects Around Me” by Britt Leach, 16.1, Fall 2014
- “Reflections of a Moderately Disturbed Grandfather” by Joe Mackall, 5.2, Spring 2014
- “Heart Sounds” by Lee Martin, 16.1, Fall 2014
- “A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper” by Ron Clinton Smith, 16.1, Fall 2014
2014
- “Destination Jim Crow” by Bettye Kearse, 15.1, Fall 2013
- “Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw: Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction” by Dan Lehman, 15.1, Fall 2013
2014 Best American Science and Nature Writing Notable
“Rebirth” by Katie Fallon, 15.1, Fall 2013
2013
- “Where Now Is” by Kathleen Blackburn, 14.1, Fall 2012
- “Writing & Publishing A Memoir: What In The Hell Have I Done?” by Andre Dubus III, 14.1, Fall 2012
- “Always a River” by Robert Vivian, 14.1, Fall 2012
- “Captain Love” by Jerald Walker, 14.1, Fall 2012
- “Country Boys, City Boys” by Sarah M. Wells, 13.2, Spring 2012
- 2013 Best American Nonrequired Reading Notable
“The Shooter” by Eli Sanders – 14.1 Fall 2012
2012
- “Poor White” by Bob Cowser, Jr., 12.2, Spring 2011
- “No Place Like Home” by Michelle Herman, 13.1, Fall 2011
- “Love & Fury” by Richard Hoffman, 13.1, Fall 2011
- “Attraction Next Exit” by Kim Dana Kupperman, 13.1, Fall 2011
- “Now, Look” by Sydney Lea, 13.1, Fall 2011
- “Winter Dreams” by Sam Pickering, 12.2, Spring 2011
2009
- “Mistake” by Lorrence Gutterman, 9.2, Spring 2008
- “Over the River and Through the Wolf” by Desirae Matherly, 9.2, Spring 2008
- “The Recesses of High School” by Jo Scott-Coe, 9.2, Spring 2008
2007
2004
- “More Things in Heaven and Earth” by Philip Gerard, 5.2, Spring 2004
- “Laying on of Hands” by Steven Harvey, 4.2, Spring 2003
- “Signs and Wonders” by Rebecca McClanahan, 4.2, Spring 2003
- “¡No Parsan! – Rage and ORVs” by James A. McLaughlin, 5.1, Fall 2003
2002
- “Clutching Pearls” by A. Loudermilk, 3.2, Spring 2002
- “A Not-So-Tall Tale” by Michael W. Raymond, 4.1, Fall 2002
2001
Print Journal Issues
Issue 25.2
Featuring the writing of Sean Enfield, Robert W. Fieseler, Melody Glenn, Hannibal Hamlin, Jenna Hammerich, Timothy J. Hillegonds, Sarah Minor, Ali Saperstein.
Issue 25.1
Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Miki Brina, Kit Carlson, Brooke Champagne, Henrietta Goodman, Megan Harlan, Sonya Huber, Laura Johnsrude, Shannon McCarthy, Tierney Oberhammer, Jon Parrish Peede, and Justin St. Germain.
Issue 24.2
Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, Elizabeth Carls, Jim Daniels, Kathleen Driskell, Michael Down, Renata Golden, Diane Gottlieb, Sydney Lea, Ann Leamon, Leslie Jill Patterson, Julia Purks, Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, Layli Shirani, Jill Talbot, Melissa Akie Wiley.
Issue 24.1
Featuring the writing of Nicholas Dighiera, Nicole Hamer, Jessica Kulynych, David McGlynn, Lilly U. Nguyen, Craig Reinbold, S. N. Rodriguez, Ellen Rogers, Ana Maria Spagna, Leslie Stonebraker, and Jessie van Eerden.
Issue 23.2
Featuring the writing of Constance Adler, N.D. Brown, Andre Dubus III, Sophie Ezzell, Suzanne Finney, Steven Harvey, Mary Milstead, Jefferson Slagle, Ira Sukrungruang, Alexandra Teague, and Kathryn Winograd.
Issue 23.1
Featuring the writing of Desiree Cooper, Michael Garrigan, Tiffany Isaacs, Jessica Johnson, Aaron Landsman, Sarah Layden, Tyler Mills, Marion Peters Denard, and Jan Shoemaker.
Issue 22.2
Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, James Brown, Marianne Jay Erhardt, Jessica Franken, Jason Goldsmith, Richard Goodman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Shamecca Harris, Rick Rees, Abigail Thomas, and Emily Waples.
Issue 22.1
Featuring the writing of Erin Block, Michael Dinkel, J. Malcolm Garcia, Megan Harlan, Susan Jackson Rodgers, Ren Jones, Emma Kaiser, Brenda Miller, Micah Perks, Molly Rideout, Allie Spikes, Jonathan Starke, and Julie Marie Wade.
Issue 21.2
Featuring the writing of Tim Bascom, Wendy Bilen, James Ellenberger, Kelly Fordon, Camellia Freeman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Mary Grimm, Kelle Groom, Kevin Honold, Phillip Hurst, Rebecca McClanahan, and Liz Prato.
Issue 21.1
Featuring the writing of Noah Davis, Nicholas Dighiera, Molly Gallentine, Susan H. Greenberg, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Sean Ironman, Lawrence Lenhart, Beth Ann Miller, Jan Shoemaker, Laurie Uttich, and Leonard Winograd.
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