Best American sonnet with vengeance from Zone 3 / Sherman Alexie --
Best American very short memoir from the New Yorker / Junot Díaz --
Best American manifesto from The Occupied Wall Street Jounal --
Best American minutes from the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from www.nycga.net --
Best American observatons at a modern protest movement from McSweeney's / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh --
Best American reflection on historic protest movements from The Occupied Wall Street Journal / Adam Hochschild --
Best American reflection on a modern protest movement from The New York Times / Robert Hass --
Best American letters in the mail from The Rumpus / Stephen Elliott, ... [et al.] --
Best American palindrome from The Believer / Barry Duncan --
Best American tweets responding to the death of Osama bin Laden from www.twitter.com --
Best American lonely guy from Jeff, One Lonely Guy / David Shields... [et al.] --
A fable for the living from Electric Literature / Kevin Brockmeier --
Tin man from This American Life / Judy Budnitz --
The years of my birth from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich --
An oral history of Olivia Hamilton from Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons / Olivia Hamilton... [et al.] --
Redeployment from Granta / Phil Klay --
Kamikaze from A Public Space / Nora Krug --
The palace of the people from Narrative Magazine / Anthony Marra --
The children from Granta / Julie Otsuka --
The street of the house of the sun from The Pinch / Michael Poore --
Beautiful monsters from Tin House / Eric Puchner --
Bellwether from Water-stone Review / Mark Robert Rapacz --
The love act from Raritan / Chaz Reetz-Laiolo --
South Beach from Annalemma / Ryan Rivas --
The amazing adventures of Phoenix Jones from GQ / Jon Ronson --
Tenth of December from The New Yorker / George Saunders --
Transcription of a eulogy / Mona Simpson --
Peyton's place from GQ / John Jeremiah Sullivan --
A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture" from Optic Nerve / Adrian Tomine --
Outlaw from The New York Times Magazine / Jose Antonio Vargas --
Don't eat cat from Byliner / Jess Walter --
Paper tigers from New York / Wesley Yang.