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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 13
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Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 272
Language: English
This anthology collects the eight winners of the 2025 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Tom Hallman Jr. and Douglas Perry for The Last Thing They Wanted, which makes eloquent use of interviews and the subjects' own letters to reconstruct the life and double-suicide death of a beloved and richly accomplished couple in a small town (The Oregonian). Second place: John Woodrow Cox for Guilty: Inside the High-Risk, Historic Prosecution of a School Shooter's Parents (The Washington Post). Third place: Christopher Spata and Dan Sullivan for The Marked Man (Tampa Bay Times).
Runners-up include Gina Barton, Untested (USA TODAY); Daniel Beekman, Two WA Men Were Arrested in Mental Health Crises. Only One Survived (The Seattle Times); Sabra Ayres and Laura King, In War-Torn Ukraine, a Woman Searches for Her Husband. Will She Find Him? (Los Angeles Times); Lane DeGregory, The Housing Experiment (Tampa Bay Times); and Steve Fisher, How a Mennonite Farmer Became a Drug Suspect (Los Angeles Times).
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