Short Story Collection Prize Short- and Longlist Honorees
It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.
Short Story Collection Prize Shortlist
Arabella Leaves and Other Stories by Jane Ciabattari
Crop Burn Stories by Brandon Daily
Stories for Raging Heathens by D Anderson
The Narrows by John Jodzio
By Ear by Trudy Lewis
The Blood Year Daughter: Stories by G. G. Silverman
Ultra Paradise by Sarah Pazur
South Coasters by Tim Griffith
What the Dead Know by Polly Buckingham
Longlist
Braille Lessons for Very Tall Children by Zachary Vickers
The Adjacent Possible by Teresa Burns Gunther
The Hidebehind and Other Queer Monsters by Laur Frymiller
Motorcycle Pope by Adam Straus
Love Husk by Colleen Mayo
California Stars by Bob Bledsoe
Solve for X by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Our Fathers' Wars by Wayne Karlin
River in the House by Tracy Winn
Strange Trouble by Naomi Williams
Afterlight by Christine Vines
The Ghosts in the Glen: Stories by Kerry Jones
Ask the Sea: Stories by Khanh Ha
If You Think Your Heart Can Take It by Suzanne McConnell
Permeable Membranes: Stories by Gina Thayer
Memory, Ohio by Chelsie Bryant
The Deep Feeling by Jeff Markowski
We Were Vessels by Amber Wheeler Bacon
The Children's Museum by Douglas Silver
Do You Really Like Being Alone? by Gage Saylor
That Girl by Anne Elliott
The Benefit by Daniel Stolar
Loose Change by Michele Ruby
Explain to Me Everything by Askold Melnyczuk