Leah Penniman’s essay “Black Land Matters: Climate Solutions in Black Agrarianism,” featured in CLIMATE T133, was selected to appear in PUSHCART PRIZE XLVIII, the 2024 Edition, which will be published in December, 2023 and distributed by WW Norton Co. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm received the added honor of serving as a contributing editor…
Enyeribe Ibegwam Wins Fourth Annual Chautauqua Janus Prize
Award Date: 2021 Nigerian writer Enyeribe Ibegwam won the 2021 Chautauqua Janus Prize for his short story “After School Hours,” which appeared in Transition 131. The guest judge of the prize, Rion Amilcar Scott, called the voice in “After School Hours” hypnotic, one that makes you “almost forget that you are reading a story.” He…
Best American Essays 2017
Award Date: 2017 Bernard Matambo, Working the City, (Issue 121)…
Boahen-Wilks Prize (Ghana Studies Association)
Award Date: 2016 Ebony Coletu and Kendra Field…
Best American Essays 2016
Award Date: 2016 Karen D. Taylor, Still Occupied, (Issue 118) Notable Essay of 2015…
GSA 2016 Boahen-Wilks Article Prize awarded to Ebony Coletu and Kendra Field for their co-authored piece
Award Date: 2016 “The Chief Sam Movement, A Century Later”, in Transition, No. 114, Gay Nigeria (2014), pp. 108-130….
Best American Essays 2015
Award Date: 2015 Hilton Als, Islands, (Issue 113)…
Best American Essays 2014
Award Date: 2014 Richard Prins, Crying for the Razor in Dar es Salaam, (Issue 110) Notable Essay of 2013…
The Caine Prize for African Writing, 2013
Award Date: 2013 Tope Folarin, Miracle, (Issue 109)…
Best African American Essays 2009
Award Date: 2009 Emily Raboteau, Searching for Zion, (Issue 97)…