The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing was released by Lake Forest College Press, in conjunction with Northwestern University Press, in 2009. It features experimental work by Gabriel Gudding, Simone Muench, Joshua Corey, Matina Stamatakis, Adam Fieled, Raymond Federman, and others.

"This inaugural volume of "The &Now Awards" recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2004-2009. "The &Now Awards" features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history. This work is as much about its form, materials, and language, as it about its subject matter. The &Now conference - moving from the University of Notre Dame (2004), Lake Forest College (2006), Chapman University (2008), and the University at Buffalo (2009) - sets the stage for this aesthetic, while "The &Now Awards" features work from the wider world of innovative publishing and serves as an ideal survey of the contemporary scene."