Best American poem from, Tin House, Sherman Alexia
Best American term paper from, Kurt Vonnegut: letters, editor Dan Wakefield
Best American anti-war poetry inspired by Kurt Vonnegut from, So it goes, Kathryn Howd Machan, Robert West, Shari Wagner, and Jim Wise
Best American consumer report from, www.yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com, EDW Lynch
Best American advertisement for a home security system from, Subtropics, Tim Wirkus
Best American apocryphal discussion between our nation's founding fathers from, The New Yorker, Teddy Wayne
Best American yada yada yada: from @seinfeldtoday
Best American tatoo stories: from penandink.tumblr.com, Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald
Best American comic that ends in arson from, The Freddie stories, Lynda Barry
Best American story about a hazardous, symbolic cesspool from, The Paris Review, Peter Orner
Best American poetm about a particle accelerator from, The ninth letter, Brendan Todt
Best American account of tragedy and nationality from, Throwing stones at the moon, Sibylla Brodzinsky, Catalina Hoyos, Max Schoening.
Finding Oscar: massacre, memory, and justice in Guatemala /Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella, from ProPublica
Hannah and Andrew / Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella, from Texas Monthly
Black box / Jennifer Egan, from The New Yorker
Bewildered decisions in times of mercantile terror, from The Paris Review
Cuba's new now / Cynthia Gorney, from National Geographic
All due respect / Peter Hessler, from The New Yorker
Everyone's reading bastard / Nick Hornby, from Byliner
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a remembrance / Kiese Laymon, from Cold Drank
Snake River Gorge / Alexander Maksik, from Tin House
Seven stories about Kenel of Koulev-ville / Kyle Minor, from The Iowa review
Casino / Alix Ohlin, from Guernica
East of the West / Miroslav Penkov, from Storyville
Two deaths / Kim Philley, from Epiphany
Human snowball / Davy Rothbart, from The Paris review
The blind faith of the one-eyed matador / Karen Russell, from GQ
Bones / Alexis Schaitkin, from Southwest review
Falling / Andrew Tonkovich, from Ecotone
Lorry Raja / Madhuri Vijay, from Narrative magazine.