Brevity’s Best American Notables

We are entirely pleased that three essays from Brevity magazine have been chosen as ‘Notables” in the Best American Essays 2023 edited by Vivian Gornick and Robert Atwan. Congratulations to Mika Sutherland, Anna Vodicka, and Daisy Hernandez.

The three brilliant essays are excerpted below for your reading pleasure.

We are Stardust by Anna Vodkicka

Skin: our thin animal hide. An organ on the outside. Our blood running in blue rivers just below the surface. How vulnerable we are....