Ecotone (magazine)

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Ecotone
Editor-in-chief David Gessner
Categories Literary magazine
Frequency2 issues/year
Circulation 2,500 to 5,000
PublisherEmily Louise Smith
Founded 2005 (2005-month)
CompanyUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington
CountryUSA
Based in Wilmington, North Carolina
LanguageEnglish
Website ecotonemagazine.org
ISSN 1553-1775  (print)
2165-2651  (web)

Ecotone is an American literary journal founded in 2005 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington by the writer and essayist 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 (MFA) program at the university. Ecotone publishes issues two times a 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.

Contents

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

Contributors

The journal has published the work of writers as diverse as Wendell Berry, Denis Johnson, Gerald Stern, Sherman Alexie, and Marvin Bell. Works from the journal have been chosen for inclusion in anthologies, such as the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories 2008 (edited by Salman Rushdie), The Best American Short Stories 2019 (edited by Anthony Doerr), The Best American Short Stories 2022 (edited by Andrew Sean Greer), 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

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References

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  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.
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