two craft essays are also on the BAE notables list

So thrilled to see not only essays from Steve (CATAMARAN LITERARY READER) and me (SUPERSTITION REVIEW) but also TWO essays from CRAFT on the Notable Essays of 2021 list in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS:

Andrea Avery, "Father Figure," CRAFT, August 25, 2021

Shaina Phenix, "some things I knew by age seven:," CRAFT, October 20, 2021

That's an incredible honor not only for these authors but for CRAFT. We've only been publishing creative nonfiction since July 2020 (when I started as CRAFT's first Creative Nonfiction Section Editor), and we've gotten three Notables! I must be doing something right.

A number of our CNF writers at CRAFT also made the Notables list for essays published elsewhere: Paul Crenshaw, Jade Hidle, Beth Kephart, Davon Loeb, Sarah Fawn Montgomery. And more writers at CRAFT who published in other genres. (And Ira Sukrungruang who was one of the reprints for our launch.)