Noting the Notables

We at the mag are delighted that so many pieces from our pages have been recognized as NOTABLE by the Besties:

Best American Short Stories: Steve De Jarnatt, “Mulligan”; Colleen Morrissey, “Good Faith”; and Edith Pearlman, “Life Lessons”

Best American Essays: Tracy Burkholder, “Proof”

Best American Nonrequired Reading: Steve Amick, “Not Even Lions and Tigers”

We offer virtual fist-bumps not just to our contributors but to the CR nuclear family as well. Associate editor Brian Trapp’s essay “My City in Two Dog Parks” (from Black Warrior Review) and former volunteer Luke Geddes’s story “Surfer Girl” (from Hayden’s Ferry Review) were also among the Notables.

Notable on a different front are the efforts of former volunteer Ian Wissman, who has started his own small press, which he’s kicking off with a contest: “Waxing Press is a new small books publisher of fiction based in Cincinnati. Our goal is to publish novels, novellas, and collections of stories that push the bounds of what fiction does, what fiction can do, and what fiction should do. The winner of our inaugural contest, the Tide Lock Prize, will be our first publication in 2014. The deadline for contest submissions is 2/1/2014. More information can be found at our website, waxingpress.com.”