Contents
Introduction
Natasha Pearlman, executive editor,
Glamour
Acknowledgments
Sidney Holt, executive director, American Society of Magazine Editors
The Battle for Baby L.
Rozina Ali
New York Times Magazine
WINNER—
Reporting
She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?
Samantha Michaels
Mother Jones
FINALIST—
Reporting
Aristocrat Inc.
Natalie So
The Believer
FINALIST—
Feature Writing
Monuments to the Unthinkable
Clint Smith
The Atlantic
FINALIST—
Columns and Essays
The Landlord and the Tenant
Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong
ProPublica
and
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
WINNER—
Feature Writing
Death Sentence
Nicholas Florko
Stat
FINALIST—
Public Interest
The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
Natasha Pearlman
Glamour
WINNER—
Public Interest
A Post-
Roe
Threat
and
The Post-
Roe
Era
and
Is Abortion Sacred?
Jia Tolentino
New Yorker
WINNER—
Columns and Essays
We Need to Take Away Children
Caitlin Dickerson
The Atlantic
FINALIST—
Public Interest
The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
Chris Heath
Esquire
FINALIST—
Feature Writing
How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones
New York
WINNER—
Lifestyle Journalism
Tinder Hearted
Allison P. Davis
New York
FINALIST—
Columns and Essays
Acid Church
Courtney Desiree Morris
Stranger’s Guide
FINALIST—
Columns and Essays
“She’s Capital!”
Namwali Serpell
New York Review of Books
WINNER—
Reviews and Criticism
Viola Davis, Inside Out
Jazmine Hughes
New York Times Magazine
WINNER—
Profile Writing
Light and Shadow
Raffi Khatchadourian
New Yorker
FINALIST—
Profile Writing
Winter Term
Michelle de Kretser
Paris Review
WINNER—
ASME Award for Fiction
Untold
Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne
ESPN Digital
FINALIST—
Reporting
Permissions
List of Contributors