Awards and Nominations

Steve Wiegenstein’s short story collection, Scattered Lights, has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Steve Wiegenstein’s short story “Magic Kids,” first published in Elder Mountain and now collected in Scattered Lights, received an honorable mention in the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize contest, sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women.

Jim Hamilton’s Ozarks RFD: Selected Essays won the 2020 Non-Fiction Book Award from the Ozarks Writers’ League. Seven of the essays in this collection appeared in Elder Mountain.

The editors of Elder Mountain have nominated Denise Henderson Vaugh’s article “The West Plains Sewage Lagoon Drama, 1978: A Lesson on Infrastructure Failure in a Karst Landscape” for the Lawrence O. Christensen Article Award given annually by the State Historical Society of Missouri.

The editors of Elder Mountain have nominated D. Matt McGowan’s short story “Sucker Flats” for The Pushcart Prize.

The editors of Elder Mountain have nominated Robert Lee Mahon’s poem “Cleaning Bluegill” for The Pushcart Prize.