Update: Barrett Brown won!

Congratulations to Barrett and The Intercept for this well-deserved award.

Original post

Barrett Brown has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category, for three of his columns at The Intercept.

The Ellie Awards, honouring excellence in the magazine industry, are sponsored by by the American Society of Magazine Editors and administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ellies 2016: @The_Intercept nominated in Columns and Commentary for 3 columns by . . . — ASME (@ASME1963) January 14, 2016

The Columns and Commentary category “honors political and social commentary; news analysis; and reviews and criticism.” Barrett’s nominated columns are “Stop Sending Me Jonathan Franzen Novels”, “A Visit to the Sweat Lodge” and “Santa Muerte, Full of Grace.” Fellow nominees include Rebecca Solnit and Teju Cole.

See all of Barrett’s prison writings here, and see his previous journalism here.

All finalists and winners will be honoured on 1 February at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.