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The 2023 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Here are excerpts from their work.

The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize's judges.

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE IMPORTANT new essay collection, A Darker Wilderness edited by Erin Sharkey, and all its imaginative, vexing, joyful, and

Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, and Bluest Nude (Fall 2022). Among other honors, she is recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a 2019 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Feature

Editor’s Choice: “This Land Was Made”   WE KNEW, going into this issue of Orion, that any conversation around racial identity and the land wouldn’t be complete without a close look at soil. It’s the material of the so-called third world, the stuff covered up by colonization, the natural element whose proximity defines social class. For all its verdancy, soil is a dark portrait of racial oppression, wet by the sweat of laborers and the blood of victims. And no thumb is more squarely on the nose of this than the Community Soil Collection Project, a roving exhibit of jars of soil col...