Awards

2005 National Magazine Award Finalists for Fiction

By Kathryn 

  • The Atlantic Monthly: Cullen Murphy, managing editor, for “An Incomplete Map of the Northern Polarity,” by Nathan Roberts, January/February; “Foaling Season,” by Aryn Kyle, May; “The One in White,” by Robert Olen Butler, July/August.
  • Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for “Natasha,” by David Bezmozgis, May; “Commission,” by Tim Winton, September; “Introduction to Speech,” by Ron Carlson, December.
  • The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for “The Last Words on Earth,” by Nicole Krauss, February 9; “Passion,” by Alice Munro, March 22; “Old Boys, Old Girls,” by Edward P. Jones, May 3.
  • The Paris Review: Brigid Hughes, executive editor, for “The Fifth Wall,” by Malinda McCollum; “The Wamsutter Wolf,” by Annie Proulx; “Everyone Else,” by Antoine Wilson, Fall.
  • The Virginia Quarterly Review: Ted Genoways, editor, for “The Immortals,” by John McNally, Spring; “Happy,” by Dean Bakopoulos, Summer; “The Futurist,” by James P. Othmer, Fall. [See the nominees for other categories here.]