New journals with three years or fewer of publication history are eligible. Applicants must supply copies of two different issues, one of which must be the most current issue. Submissions should include a letter from the editor, no longer than one page, introducing the new journal.

• 2022: Journal of Autoethnography; Honorable Mention: Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies

• 2021: Global Perspectives; Honorable Mention: Ground Works

• 2020: Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

• 2019: Feminist Modernist Studies and Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

• 2018: Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures

• 2017: ASAP Journal

• 2016: VERGE: Studies in Global Asias

• 2015: NAIS: Native American and Indigenous Studies

• 2014: Architecture and Culture

• 2012: History of the Present

• 2011: Interiors

• 2010: Literature in the Early American Republic; Honorable Mention: Black Camera

• 2009: Contemporary Women's Writing; Honorable Mention: Early Modern Women & Journal of Late Antiquity

• 2008: Community Literacy Journal

• 2007: Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation; Runner-Up: Studies in American Naturalism

• 2006: Literal; Runner-Up: Material Religion

• 2005: Labor; Runner-up: Latino Studies

• 2004: Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas

• 2003: American Journal of Bioethics

• 2002: Philosophia Africana

• 2001: Pedagogy

• 2000: The Hedgehog Review

• 1999: Book History

• 1998: Rhetoric and Public Affairs

• 1997: Feminist Economics

• 1996: Angelaki

• 1995: positions: east asia cultures critique; Runner-up: Modernism/modernity

• 1994: North Carolina Literary Review; Runner up: Journal of Information Ethics

• 1993: Narrative; Runner-up: American Short Fiction

• 1992: Public Culture; Honorable mentions: Colonial Latin American Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, Journal of Indigenous Culture

• 1991: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies; Honorable mentions: Manoa, Hellas

• 1990: Journal of World History; Honorable mentions: Journal of Women's History, American Literary History

• 1989: The Yale Journal of Criticism

• 1988: The Gettysburg Review

• 1987: Portuguese Studies

• 1986: Studies in American Drama, 1945–Present

• 1985: Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies

• 1984: South Central Review

• 1983: Rhetorica