The Orison Anthology

Vol. 1, 2016

Edited by Luke Hankins, Nathan Poole, & Karen Tucker

200 pp. / $24 Orison Books ISSN: 2380-7776 ISBN: 978-0-9906917-8-5 Publication date: October 4, 2016 Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books

Beginning in 2018, each volume of The Orison Anthology will be cataloged in the EBSCOhost digital database.

ABOUT

The Orison Anthology is an annual collection of the finest spiritually engaged writing that appeared in periodicals in the preceding year. Our anthology aims to not only fill, but expand, the space left by the absence of the Best American Spiritual Writing series. In addition to reprinted material, each year the anthology will also include new, previously unpublished works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by the winners of The Orison Anthology Awards, judged by different prominent writers each year. The judges for Volume 1 were Kevin McIlvoy, Ann Hood, and Claire Bateman. The winners receive $500 each, as well as publication. The winners for Vol. 1 were Jill Widner, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, and Christopher J. Adamson.

VOL. 1 CONTRIBUTORS

Christopher J. Adamson Kaveh Akbar Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew Bruce Beasley Zeina Hashem Beck Bruce Bond Shevaun Brannigan Jai Chakrabarti Dante Di Stefano James W. Flannery Brett Foster Alison Gopnik Rachel Eliza Griffiths Samuel Harrison Dave Harrity Jane Hirshfield Elizabeth Hoover Kimberly Johnson Richard Jones Vandana Khanna David Kirby Li-Young Lee Shara Lessley Jenny Molberg Bruno Nelson Carl Phillips Emilia Phillips Catherine Prescott Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Doug Ramspeck Molly Reid Joshua Robbins Purvi Shah Brian Volck Marcus Wicker Jill Widner Christian Wiman Franz Wright C. Dale Young Katherine E. Young