The Jim Croce Question, Fourth Genre
(25.1, Spring 2023)
The Steinberg Essay Prize, Finalist

Guns over China, The Antigonish Review, St. Francis Xavier University
(Issue #208, Winter 2022)

Film School Follies, Broad Street, an interdisciplinary magazine of nonfiction narratives and artwork, Richmond, Virginia (2019)
Best of the Net, Nomination

(You can actually listen to a computer-generated voice read this—weird!)

Guns over China, The Iowa Review award for Nonfiction, Finalist (2019)

Guns over China, CBC Creative Nonfiction Award, Longlisted (2018)
https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/guns-over-china-by-michael-hess-1.4796694

On the Morning After the Crash, The Best American Essays, Notable Essay (2017)  

James Dean Posters on the Wall, Post Road Magazine, a publication of the Department of English at Boston College
(No. 32, 2017)
Pushcart Prize, Nomination  
Essay

Film School Follies, ImageOutWrite, a publication of the Rochester LGBT Film Festival, (Volume 5, 2016)  
Essay

On the Morning After the Crash, Sport Literate, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2016) Essay

Vanity Plates, Grain, Volume 43.2, (Winter 2016) Essay

What Do You Wear to a Nudist Colony?, Best Gay Stories 2016, an anthology edited by Steve Berman, Lethe Press (2016) Essay

Midnight Scribe of Andersonville, The Iowa Review award for Nonfiction, Finalist (May 2015) Essay

What Do You Wear to a Nudist Colony?, The Malahat Review, Issue 190, (Spring 2015)  Essay

A Letter to my Sixteen-Year-Old Self, Glitterwolf Magazine, (April, 2015) Letter

A Man without a Camera, The Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, Issue 14.2, (2015) Essay

Shoebox Vigilantes, The Dalhousie Review, Issue 94.3 (Autumn, 2014) Essay

The Twelve Strays of Christmas, Glitterwolf Magazine, Issue 7, (Winter, 2015) Essay

Any Place I Hang my Helmet,  Creativity and Constraint, an anthology, Wising Up Press (Fall, 2014) Essay

A Man without a Camera, The Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction, Finalist.  (June 2014)  Essay

Alfred Hitchcock’s Grammar, Shenandoah, The Washington and Lee University Review. Volume 63, No. 3.  (September 2014) Essay

http://shenandoahliterary.org/641/2014/08/15/alfred-hitchcocks-grammar/

Peter Pan Does Goldman Sachs, Red Savina Review. The Online Literary Magazine in the Southwest ISSN 2169-3161. Volume 2, Issue 2. (September 2014) Essay

Robot Cormorant, Glassworks, A Publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing Graduate Program. Issue 8. (Spring, 2014) Essay

And the Boys Played On, The Outrider Review. Volume 1, Issue 2.  (April 2014) Essay

Tigers in Love, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, Finalist.  (December 2013) Original full-length play

The Wailing of Gay Boys on Mountain Bikes, Glitterwolf Magazine. Issue 4. (August 2013)  Poem

Trees in the Sun, Glitterwolf Magazine. Issue 4. (August 2013)  Poem