In 2001, 2004, and 2009, the magazine won the content award of the
AWPDirector's Prize for undergraduate magazines.[4][5]
Stories and
poems that have appeared in Alligator Juniper have received the
Pushcart Prize and inclusion in various anthologies. The journal regularly receives positive reviews from
Newpages.
Notable contributors
Ellen Winter
Alix Ohlin
Laura Didyk
Connie Voisine
Michaela Carter
Allan Peterson
Natalie Singer
Blake Butler
Rebekah Banks Ewing
Catherine Dryden
Leonard Michaels
Kevin Brown
Elizabeth Volpe
Jessica Roth
Eliot Treichel
Tony Hoagland
Elton Glaser
Anna Green
Jacob Appel
Sally Ball
Marilyn Szabo
Matt Mendez
Justin St. Germain
Robert Schirmer
Kathleen Kirk
Laurie Ann Doyle
David Ebershoff
Awards and honors
Two of the Prescott College student prizewinners appearing in the 2009 issue were selected for an anthology of best undergraduate work published in the country in 2009: Jillian Fragale's “Splitting in Half” (creative nonfiction) and K. Angeline Pittenger's “Untitled” (photography) appeared in
plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009, published online during spring term 2010 by Bennington College. Alligator Juniper was one of more than 60 journals in the reading mix, along with publications from Brown, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Reed, Rice, Stanford, and Tulane.
Kevin Brown's story “One Life” from our 2007 issue was included in the teaching anthology Voices published by The Institute.
Elton Glaser's poem “Drinking Alone on a Spring Day,” published in Alligator Juniper 2007, was featured on Verse Daily.
Anna Green's story “Food Stamps,” published in Alligator Juniper 2006, was reprinted in the anthology New Stories from the Southwest.
Sally Ball's poem “’Tis Often Thus with Spirits” and Claire Whitenack's poem “At the Fish Hatchery,” both published in our 2006 issue, were featured on Verse Daily.
Marilyn Szabo of Phoenix, AZ has been published several times. She won the 2010 National Photography award with her "Covenant Transport I" image.
References
^"A Little Journal for Nearly Every Literary Voice," The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2004