Issue 7 contributor Eula Biss was nominated in the criticism category for her collection of essays Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press).

This book was also among Time Out Chicago’s top ten for 2009.  Also, an essay from the collection appeared in MAKE issue 7.  Basically, we strongly recommend you buy this book.

Congrats! Two MAKE contributors were selected as awardees!

Eula Biss for her creative nonfiction essay from issue 7 Nobody Knows Your Name and Gabe Gudding for his issue 6 poem Fifteen Minute Performative Masculinity New York School Name Dropping Poem for David Shapiro as Transcribed from his Interview at Pennsound

MAKE contributing editor Kathleen Rooney was also honored for her essay in ACM For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs.

See the complete list here.

Fred Sasaki has been awarded an Illinois Arts Council award for his creative nonfiction piece, “Issei, Nisei, Sansei,” which appeared in MAKE #4.
We are quite proud to have been able to publish the piece.
Read it here. Listen to it here.

In their recent issue, P&W mentions MAKE as one of 20 new lit mags ready to receive your work.
Pretty nice. Plus, word on lots of other mags we’re happy to know about.