We are proud to announce that Alex Halperin, one of our non-fiction editors, has won the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s March Sidney award for socially-conscious journalism. The article, “ Drill, Maybe Drill?“, which ran in The American Prospect, examines the environmental ramifications of realizing plans for natural gas-drilling in upstate New York.

Read Halperin’s latest Guernica article “Charged Environment” here .

Read an interview with Halperin about his award-winning piece here .

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