Professor Grim and the other editors sent this out to the Nominating Editors not long ago (I've added school affiliations):

Our thanks to the Nominating Editors for a wonderful set of initial nominations and for extremely useful survey input and comments. 

This year’s final selection:

The Philosopher’s Annual volume 40

from the literature of 2020

Zach Barnett (National University of Singapore), “Why You Should Vote to Change the Outcome,” from Philosophy and Public Affairs

 Susanne Bobzien (Oxford and Simon Shogry (Oxford), “Stoic Logic and Multiple Generality,” from Philosophers’ Imprint

Renée Jorgensen Bolinger (Michigan), “The Moral Grounds of Reasonably Mistaken Self-Defense,” from Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Christopher Fowles (Oxford), “The Heart of Flesh: Nietzsche on Affects and the Interpretation of the Body,” from the Journal of the History of Philosophy

Jane Friedman (NYU), “The Epistemic and the Zetetic,” from the Philosophical Review

Veronica Gómez Sánchez (Bersoff Fellow, NYU; joining Berkeley in 2023), “Crystallized Regularities,” from the Journal of Philosophy

Waheed Hussain (late of Toronto), “Pitting People Against Each Other,” from Philosophy and Public Affairs

Marc Lange, “Putting Explanation Back into ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’,” from Noûs

Thi Nguyen (Utah) and Bekka Williams (Minnesota State, “Moral Outrage Porn,” from the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Vida Yao (Rice), “Grace and Alienation,” from Philosopher’s Imprint

These will be posted with links at www.philosophersannual.org with a general introduction shortly. 

We hope that you will join us as a nominating editor again next year, and that you will be keeping your eye out for excellent work in the literature of 2021 in the meantime.

With all the best,

Patrick Grim  

Abdulwausay Ansari

Ariana Peruzzi Sancio

Laura K. Soter

(I nominated Dr. Fowles's paper, and was very pleased to see it selected!  I also particularly liked the papers by Lange and Yao.)