"The Rule of Threes" by Erin Flanagan, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2016, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 - Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2016
Borderlands Issue, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2015, The Best American Essays 2016 - Notable Special Issues of 2015
"Jacqueline and the Negative Imagination" by Ming Holden, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2015, The Best American Essays 2016 - Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015
"How To Write A War Poem" by Micah Fields, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2015, The Best American Essays 2016 - Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015
"Charade" by Kendra Atleework, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2014, The Best American Essays 2015
"Heat" by J.D. Lewis, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2014, The Best American Essays 2015 - Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014
"The Year of the Great Forgetting" by B.J. Hollars, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2014, The Best American Essays 2015 - Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014
"My Father's Hands" by Tim Keppel, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2013, The Best American Essays 2014 - Notable Essays of 2013
"PHRENOLOGY: an attempt" by Chelsea Biodolillo, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2013, The Best American Essays 2014 - Notable Essays of 2013
"News from Harlem" by Kwame Dawes, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2013, The Best American Poetry 2014
"This Once Bright Thing" by Toni Mirosevich, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2012, The Best American Essays 2013 - Notable Essays of 2012
"Dangerous Archaeology" by Martha Andrews Donovan & Autumn E. Monsees (photographer), Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2012, The Best American Essays 2013 - Notable Essays of 2012
"So Happy" by Victoria Lancelotta, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2012, The Best American Short Stories 2013 - Other Distinguished Stories of 2012
"Maggie Leaves the Underworld" by Janet McNally, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2012, Best New Poets 2012
"Wreck" by Janine Joseph, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2011, Best New Poets 2011
"The Company She Keeps" by Halina Duraj, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2010, The Best American Essays 2011 - Notable Essays of 2010
"Motherhood and Childhood" by Polina Barskova (translated by Ilya Kaminsky), Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2008, The Pushcart Prize, XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 - Poetry Special Mention
"Sex and the Single Eight-Year-Old" by Bethany Tyler Less, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2006-07, The Best American Essays 2008 - Notable Essays of 2007
"Making Love to Leopard Man" by Stephanie Lenox, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 2005, Best New Poets 2006
"Rhetorical Figures" by Tom Christopher, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2004-05, The Best American Poetry 2006
"Inventory" by Grennan Eamon, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2000-2001, The Pushcart Prize, XXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2002
"backward poem" by Bob Hicock, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 1999-2000, The Pushcart Prize, XXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2001
"The Comet" by Rick Bass, Hayden’s Ferry Review Fall/Winter 1998-99, The Best American Short Stories 2000 - 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1999
"The Other League of Nations" by Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring/Summer 1991, The Pushcart Prize, XVII: Best of the Small Presses, 1992-1993
"One More" by Raymond Carver, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring 1989, The Pushcart Prize, XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990-1991 - Special Mention
"Les Femmes Creoles" by Bob Shacochis, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring 1989, The Pushcart Prize, XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990-1991 - Special Mention
"Les Femmes Creoles" by Bob Shacochis, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring 1989, The Best American Short Stories 1990 - 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1989