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text-align: left;">When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were critic and writer Merve Emre, librarian Allison Escoto, and writer Tania James. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about&nbsp;<i>The Hive and the Honey</i>&nbsp;by Yiyun Li:&nbsp;</div><p></p><blockquote>“Highway Thirteen is a kaleidoscopic collection, offering a multifaceted view of the ordinary people affected by one serial killer in Australia. Fiona McFarlane writes with psychological precision and a masterful sense of suspense. Each story is artfully constructed and the way they fit together, spanning twenty-eight years, is nothing short of dazzling. Fiona McFarlane’s book is a tour de force about the stories we tell, the surprising ways our lives connect, and the ripple effects of violence.”</blockquote><p></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjJmBx73M4Zwa-pE60302NxLcr3EpdIg4x8cWfKdXm5IhYcf9FVFAZPdrjPgY_g6VnvJEmhmDJGs7sCteWehyphenhyphenlRaFaA0a0OpwJ4h1ZmDT3PvDtb5kqqAz8xm9J23eWDOQ4wcp-SSADWHC-NglebJTspHsP94oHFiZ9ie8rLh3Qtdu6oS2Oz9rYGQsJkZq/s72-w400-h369-c/1E59D95E-4698-4B11-A33B-52E7A0DC7214_1_201_a.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-7275913897399538538</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-03-26T16:52:06.568-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/25/25</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2025 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">citations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jessi Jezewksa Stevens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><title>What the Story Prize Judges Had to Say About Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens</title><description><p>When the three judges for The Story Prize vote for the winner of the award, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy Yu. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about&nbsp;<i>Ghost Pains</i>&nbsp;by Jessi Jezewska Stevens:&nbsp;</p><p></p><blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT68Db2mLsr2hzd9y9fceDwvph1lh6c1VYFzL7mgX6n7qwavbwAQuErKh4fA3Lsfh7mW7jB4h3ZIK9KVX3v7ISBjgTR_8wORYXfpkVQtk7gIfue67rsVTi5TJ_h70DH5A1K976aQRUAHGA4zIBNPMixo9nJBgiqZiKz6VBf6w4Dwn5XKFD_elbUXI3aesU/s4050/3EC896FE-337A-43CD-B76C-F5A9F8156356.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT68Db2mLsr2hzd9y9fceDwvph1lh6c1VYFzL7mgX6n7qwavbwAQuErKh4fA3Lsfh7mW7jB4h3ZIK9KVX3v7ISBjgTR_8wORYXfpkVQtk7gIfue67rsVTi5TJ_h70DH5A1K976aQRUAHGA4zIBNPMixo9nJBgiqZiKz6VBf6w4Dwn5XKFD_elbUXI3aesU/w266-h400/3EC896FE-337A-43CD-B76C-F5A9F8156356.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table>“Few books luxuriate in the possibility of language as does <i>Ghost Pains.</i> And few authors take such apparent pleasure in the swirl of wordplay, anxiety, and loneliness as does Jessi Jezewska Stevens. The nervous, insecure narrators are a joy to meet—at an interview for a light journalism piece, at a catastrophically sad party, out in the world—because they represent the uncertainty of the reader, the longing for connection, and the impossibility of true comfort or rest. In these times, this is a book that meets the moment head-on and refuses to look away. That Stevens is a master of words elevates each tale to the level of high art.”&nbsp;<br /></blockquote><p></p><div><br /></div><p></p><blockquote></blockquote></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say_26.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT68Db2mLsr2hzd9y9fceDwvph1lh6c1VYFzL7mgX6n7qwavbwAQuErKh4fA3Lsfh7mW7jB4h3ZIK9KVX3v7ISBjgTR_8wORYXfpkVQtk7gIfue67rsVTi5TJ_h70DH5A1K976aQRUAHGA4zIBNPMixo9nJBgiqZiKz6VBf6w4Dwn5XKFD_elbUXI3aesU/s72-w266-h400-c/3EC896FE-337A-43CD-B76C-F5A9F8156356.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-299130016489076603</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-03-26T16:48:27.973-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/25/25</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2025 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">citations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ruben Reyes Jr.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><title>What the Story Prize Judges Had to Say About There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.</title><description><p>When the three judges for The Story Prize vote for the winner of the award, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were writer and editor Elliott Holt, writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy Yu. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about&nbsp;<i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven</i>&nbsp;by Ruben Reyes Jr.:&nbsp;</p><p></p><blockquote><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw8_ghU6kb1iwxy5H2tiUdqVIJgHJ2_tcOz19wUqwJUI7VivlujNgSQTzQdCjjem6ihSrF7-kWJfNjSelOeLaXfFigzMZq6X75-fxpbZbXBveCnwQvcCkd_sZC6HkiYi8Gb3tC2b8y5t0A9kuPj-J7ZG-KZJ8iiuo9rbq6Tj99dkLCxQpZzwfZy6ao6Sl/s4050/E0B30A84-7BFE-4691-9D89-311D8CF1D703.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw8_ghU6kb1iwxy5H2tiUdqVIJgHJ2_tcOz19wUqwJUI7VivlujNgSQTzQdCjjem6ihSrF7-kWJfNjSelOeLaXfFigzMZq6X75-fxpbZbXBveCnwQvcCkd_sZC6HkiYi8Gb3tC2b8y5t0A9kuPj-J7ZG-KZJ8iiuo9rbq6Tj99dkLCxQpZzwfZy6ao6Sl/w266-h400/E0B30A84-7BFE-4691-9D89-311D8CF1D703.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table>“Ruben Reyes Jr. shows there is no way to outrun the past. The distance someone attempts to travel away from all the selves they carry is the same distance one must travel from their own physical body. The consequential state of this is a half-lived experience in permanent limbo. <i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven</i> portrays the fragility of hunger for convenience and control. Then Reyes Jr. explores the distinct consequences of believing that control can be bought, which causes constant unsettling murmurs in one’s soul. Ultimately, he shows the impossibilities of buying ourselves out of pain while shattering this notion’s associated capitalistic ideals.<p></p><p>“This story collection and its anachronistic approach to grief show the ever-present nature of its cyclical appearances even as some characters attempt to run from the feeling. The nonlinear style mimics the blurriness of time as it exists through memories. Reading these stories has shown me there is no easy transactional way to connect with generational past or identity, and it is impossible to skirt around the pain of confrontation. This repeated confrontation of self is a necessary step on the path to the freedom of living in the present moment. This book delicately balances both the profound proudness and guilt of immigrants living completely different lives compared to those of even recent ancestors. These stories caution against the pseudo ideal of assimilating into capitalism that ultimately causes the removal of the history of self and severs the connection to our humanity”</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw8_ghU6kb1iwxy5H2tiUdqVIJgHJ2_tcOz19wUqwJUI7VivlujNgSQTzQdCjjem6ihSrF7-kWJfNjSelOeLaXfFigzMZq6X75-fxpbZbXBveCnwQvcCkd_sZC6HkiYi8Gb3tC2b8y5t0A9kuPj-J7ZG-KZJ8iiuo9rbq6Tj99dkLCxQpZzwfZy6ao6Sl/s72-w266-h400-c/E0B30A84-7BFE-4691-9D89-311D8CF1D703.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-100511906588170545</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-03-26T10:26:43.530-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/25/225</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fiona McFarlane</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize winner</category><title>The 21st Winner of The Story Prize Is Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane!</title><description><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aJVoku3UrN1ib0fTHoaTLFCpisLNQ-eU6xI9C7dB4ZnSSQjGMkbBTlhy8uSPalZq8I7SXNViv4c1CTYBYkRmlWbJBoZXboRwBML8UqeeAN8F4CK2VTekI20cuAibbsffQ8e5VSn45n8yB9z-T35UDSeS0yliDhJAqt1VFV_DC8iSdMb03ON-0KQ4CbKZ/s1086/9D511EAD-4AA5-43F3-B847-E5AFABB75A68_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aJVoku3UrN1ib0fTHoaTLFCpisLNQ-eU6xI9C7dB4ZnSSQjGMkbBTlhy8uSPalZq8I7SXNViv4c1CTYBYkRmlWbJBoZXboRwBML8UqeeAN8F4CK2VTekI20cuAibbsffQ8e5VSn45n8yB9z-T35UDSeS0yliDhJAqt1VFV_DC8iSdMb03ON-0KQ4CbKZ/w267-h400/9D511EAD-4AA5-43F3-B847-E5AFABB75A68_1_105_c.jpeg" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table>The winner of The Story Prize for books published in 2024 is Fiona McFarlane for&nbsp;<i>Highway Thirteen</i>&nbsp;(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The other finalists were Ruben Reyes Jr. for&nbsp;<i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven</i>&nbsp;(Mariner Books) and Jessi Jezewska Stevens for&nbsp;<i>Ghost Pains</i>&nbsp;(And Other Stories). The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. As runners-up, Reyes and Stevens each received $5,000.&nbsp;<p></p><p><i>Highway Thirteen</i>&nbsp;is McFarlane's fourth book of fiction and her second short story collection. The judges cited the book for&nbsp;the conceptual and thematic ingenuity of the collection as a whole and the precise and astute execution of the individual stories.</p>Director Larry Dark and Founder Julie Lindsey selected the three finalists for The Story Prize, now in its 20th year, from among 107 short story collections published in 2024, representing 87 different publishers or imprints. Three judges—writer and editor Elliott Holt; writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and bookseller Lucy Yu—determined the winner from among the three books chosen as finalists.<br /></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-21st-winner-of-story-prize-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aJVoku3UrN1ib0fTHoaTLFCpisLNQ-eU6xI9C7dB4ZnSSQjGMkbBTlhy8uSPalZq8I7SXNViv4c1CTYBYkRmlWbJBoZXboRwBML8UqeeAN8F4CK2VTekI20cuAibbsffQ8e5VSn45n8yB9z-T35UDSeS0yliDhJAqt1VFV_DC8iSdMb03ON-0KQ4CbKZ/s72-w267-h400-c/9D511EAD-4AA5-43F3-B847-E5AFABB75A68_1_105_c.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-6962853339381144405</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-03-18T16:56:42.340-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2024 Short Story Collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2024/25 finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fiona McFarlane</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jessi Jezewska Stevens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ruben Reyes Jr.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize event</category><title>Live-Stream The Story Prize event on March 25 at 7:30 p.m.</title><description><p>The Story Prize event is just a week away. Although we're having a private award night this year, you can&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/LTGclfsdTv8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">watch it live</a>&nbsp;on YouTube.&nbsp;</p><p>What you'll see and hear is the three finalists for The Story Prize for books published in 2024—Fiona McFarlane for&nbsp;<i>Highway Thirteen</i>&nbsp;(Farra, Straus and Giroux), Ruben Reyes Jr. for&nbsp;<i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven&nbsp;</i>(Mariner Books), and Jessi Jezewska Stevens for&nbsp;<i>Ghost Pains&nbsp;</i>(And Other Stories)—read from and discuss their short story collections before we announce the 21st winner of The Story Prize and present that writer with an engraved silver bowl and the top prize of $20,000. The other two finalists will each take home $5,000.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJttAcEoX0d0Idec8gVh_wL8Chdb_5aBu2hPiYeHQghftggwSHcKhk9LIZ3xVU6MVNiX6QZfbpxKEJzYNnujaKlmEv7oD8CsYXaQH32mejwav6Ja7hg2Loei_HkL4S6kOJ_qnHHVWt-XZf9eL3PWNnEviQv1ckOhUsvbwrMw2CPoK_2WTsf37UPGMkEnr/s2250/F8A00351-C66A-4F3C-B8D8-E4732C0A6D2F_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2250" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJttAcEoX0d0Idec8gVh_wL8Chdb_5aBu2hPiYeHQghftggwSHcKhk9LIZ3xVU6MVNiX6QZfbpxKEJzYNnujaKlmEv7oD8CsYXaQH32mejwav6Ja7hg2Loei_HkL4S6kOJ_qnHHVWt-XZf9eL3PWNnEviQv1ckOhUsvbwrMw2CPoK_2WTsf37UPGMkEnr/w400-h217/F8A00351-C66A-4F3C-B8D8-E4732C0A6D2F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finalists: Fiona McFarlane, Ruben Reyes Jr., Jessi Jezewska Stevens</td></tr></tbody></table><p>If you miss the live-stream, you'll still be able to watch the video on our <a href="https://thestoryprize.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> and on YouTube in the days that follow. You can find videos of past events under the WINNERS menu on our home page or on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheStoryPrize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/03/live-stream-story-prize-event-on-march.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJttAcEoX0d0Idec8gVh_wL8Chdb_5aBu2hPiYeHQghftggwSHcKhk9LIZ3xVU6MVNiX6QZfbpxKEJzYNnujaKlmEv7oD8CsYXaQH32mejwav6Ja7hg2Loei_HkL4S6kOJ_qnHHVWt-XZf9eL3PWNnEviQv1ckOhUsvbwrMw2CPoK_2WTsf37UPGMkEnr/s72-w400-h217-c/F8A00351-C66A-4F3C-B8D8-E4732C0A6D2F_1_201_a.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-3819113554552966776</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-02-17T12:08:17.037-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2024 Short Story Collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collections by accomplished writers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">long list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other notable collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize</category><title>The Story Prize Longlist for Story Collections Published in 2024</title><description>At The Story Prize we release a longlist of notable short story collections published in the previous year a few weeks after we announce our shortlist of <a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-202425-story-prize-finalists-are.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">three finalists</a>. That list of 16 books, plus the three finalists and The Story Prize <a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20Spotlight%20Award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotlight Award</a> winner <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-history-of-sound-stories-ben-shattuck/20695812?ean=9780593490389&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(The History of Sound</a></i> by Ben Shattuck), combine to highlight 20 short story collections. In 2024, The Story Prize received as entries 107 books published by 82 different publishers or imprints. Here are the books on our longlist:&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwgdjYC8TkvTEVXx2NwExVJZNwGtQe9VORyfrjP2fdFmpiQDjrNmZa24hi2yu43a2zXgba8JhbN7VEXG8POJdQESePTigUcTdlQJDoqVPsl_A7x02b8-RrvXrwRN2ii7CBGT_Djq1KlFqhODdH9wg5uDUxZI0HwlgBvspeyveZhJoAhUafR4FiS4PT_OhX/s1936/91276240-6F27-45D8-852A-EEAC7F876943_1_102_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1936" data-original-width="1624" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwgdjYC8TkvTEVXx2NwExVJZNwGtQe9VORyfrjP2fdFmpiQDjrNmZa24hi2yu43a2zXgba8JhbN7VEXG8POJdQESePTigUcTdlQJDoqVPsl_A7x02b8-RrvXrwRN2ii7CBGT_Djq1KlFqhODdH9wg5uDUxZI0HwlgBvspeyveZhJoAhUafR4FiS4PT_OhX/w335-h400/91276240-6F27-45D8-852A-EEAC7F876943_1_102_a.jpeg" width="335" /></a></div><br /><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ghostroots-stories-pemi-aguda/20615116?ean=9781324065852&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ghostroots</a></i> by 'Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton &amp; Company)&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-get-along-without-me/20266533?ean=9781960988126&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Get Along Without Me</a></i> by Kate Axelrod (Clash Books)&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ricky-other-love-stories/19668021?ean=9781956046236&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ricky</a> </i>by Whitney Collins (Sarabande Books)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/good-night-sleep-tight/20990527?ean=9781566897099&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good Night, Sleep Tight</a></i> by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bugsy-other-stories-rafael-frumkin/20158295?ean=9781982189761&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bugsy</a></i> by Rafael Frumkin (Simon &amp; Schuster)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-best-that-you-can-do-stories-amina-gautier/20027905?ean=9781593767587&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Best That You Can You Do</a></i> by Amina Gautier (Soft Skull)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-farm-stories-abby-geni/20340355?ean=9781640096264&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Body Farm</a> </i>by Abby Geni (Counterpoint Press)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.susqupress.com/books/practice-for-becoming-a-ghost" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Practice for Becoming a Ghost</i> </a>by Patrick Thomas Henry (Susquehanna <br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>Univ. Press)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-goodbye-process-stories-mary-jones/20851526?ean=9781958506639&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Goodbye Process</a></i> by Mary Jones (Zibby Books)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-it-works-out-myriam-lacroix/20351784?ean=9781419773518&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How It Works Out</a> </i>by Myriam Lacroix (The Overlook Press)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-it-works-out-myriam-lacroix/20351784?ean=9781419773518&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil</i> </a>by Ananda Lima (Tor)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/fifty-beasts-to-break-your-heart-and-other-stories-gennarose-nethercott/20078492?ean=9780593314180&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart</i> </a>by Genarose Nethercott (Vintage Books)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-make-your-mother-cry-fictions-sejal-shah/20686199?ean=9781959000136&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Make Your Mother Cry </a></i>by Sejal Shah (West Virginia Univ. Press)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/rejection-fiction-tony-tulathimutte/20988157?ean=9780063337879&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rejection</a></i> by Tony Tulathimutte (William Morrow)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/mystery-lights-lena-valencia/20614341?ean=9781959030621&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mystery Lights</a></i> by Lena Valencia (Tin House)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; •&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/beautiful-days-stories-zach-williams/20675240?ean=9780385550147&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beautiful Days</a> </i>by Zach Williams (Doubleday)</div><div><br /></div><div>Altogether, we received more worthwhile books than we could possibly mention without making our longlist a too-long-list, and it was difficult to narrow down the choices. It takes us a while to accomplish this because we do a fair amount of rereading. As always, we believe that anyone who writes and publishes a short story collection has overcome difficult obstacles, has accomplished something significant, and deserves enormous credit.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>We'll announce the 21st winner of The Story Prize on March 25 at a private event featuring readings by and interviews with the three finalists—<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/highway-thirteen-stories-fiona-mcfarlane/20374730?ean=9780374606268&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fiona McFarlane</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/there-is-a-rio-grande-in-heaven-stories-ruben-reyes-jr/20683095?ean=9780063336278&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruben ReyesJr.</a>, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ghost-pains-stories/19649072?ean=9781913505844&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jessi Jezewska Stevens</a>. Before then, we'll provide a link to watch the program live or online in the days that follow the announcement of the winner.</div></div></div></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-story-prize-longlist-for-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwgdjYC8TkvTEVXx2NwExVJZNwGtQe9VORyfrjP2fdFmpiQDjrNmZa24hi2yu43a2zXgba8JhbN7VEXG8POJdQESePTigUcTdlQJDoqVPsl_A7x02b8-RrvXrwRN2ii7CBGT_Djq1KlFqhODdH9wg5uDUxZI0HwlgBvspeyveZhJoAhUafR4FiS4PT_OhX/s72-w335-h400-c/91276240-6F27-45D8-852A-EEAC7F876943_1_102_a.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-2531041521312926125</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-02-03T11:00:00.123-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2024 Short Story Collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ben Shattuck</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</category><title>The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck Is The Story Prize Spotlight Award Winner</title><description><p>In addition to naming three finalists each year, we also present The&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20Spotlight%20Award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>&nbsp;to a collection of exceptional merit. Selected books can be promising works by first-time authors, collections in alternative formats, or works that demonstrate an unusual perspective on the writer's craft. The award includes a prize of $1,000.&nbsp;</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPkBB6lG2UqkWkXqpmkOFjNiSfhQ9K7imibke_i_3MEPGdc72iaOuuFvLgSOg_UTPd43_-eMiXDBFvIWzeWot4oL91XGWMrxlJJ3tsQZhUiatC5f_08iACh60BZdK3pqbb-YsunYF6wLghgp9YGKfCbAAGIjn7nOLvf6FomN9FU7RYPZcLvFNiFvMwyHw/s5100/The%20History%20of%20Sound%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5100" data-original-width="3375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPkBB6lG2UqkWkXqpmkOFjNiSfhQ9K7imibke_i_3MEPGdc72iaOuuFvLgSOg_UTPd43_-eMiXDBFvIWzeWot4oL91XGWMrxlJJ3tsQZhUiatC5f_08iACh60BZdK3pqbb-YsunYF6wLghgp9YGKfCbAAGIjn7nOLvf6FomN9FU7RYPZcLvFNiFvMwyHw/s320/The%20History%20of%20Sound%20cover.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><p>We're pleased to announce that the winner for books published in 2024 is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-history-of-sound-stories-ben-shattuck/20695812?ean=9780593490389&amp;next=t&amp;aid=12843&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2024-collections-received&amp;next=t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The History of Sound</i> </a>by Ben Shattuck, published by Viking. These twelve inventive stories, perfectly executed,&nbsp;stood out from the pack.&nbsp;Shattuck takes an original approach to connecting the stories—all set in New England and ranging in time from 1796 to the present—ordering them according to a traditional eighteenth-century rhyme scheme, with the first and last stories framing five other matched pairs and the collection as a whole.</p><p></p><div>Ben Shattuck is the author of <i>Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau,</i> which was a <i>New Yorker</i> Best Book of 2022, a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Best Book of Spring, a <i>New York Times</i> Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.</div><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBZrejmuQDFeCnJiylBkVOgar8cWxxRsIe7chwlXD3yRUNHBeuoElaLwhdXEiFBbDiELqDkrRXxCpXcwg7JSioUxgNBqunIQf8Qn_MNDe_Z9jOtn48S70pFacdU4FXTSgOmykwwMQuZrOrsnv2QXRYEvqcpeEzOK9C63HjsZHv1kSiWUoemkl3Ao9CYD_/s4240/Ben%20Shattuck%20(c)%20Andreas%20Burgess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4240" data-original-width="2832" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBZrejmuQDFeCnJiylBkVOgar8cWxxRsIe7chwlXD3yRUNHBeuoElaLwhdXEiFBbDiELqDkrRXxCpXcwg7JSioUxgNBqunIQf8Qn_MNDe_Z9jOtn48S70pFacdU4FXTSgOmykwwMQuZrOrsnv2QXRYEvqcpeEzOK9C63HjsZHv1kSiWUoemkl3Ao9CYD_/s320/Ben%20Shattuck%20(c)%20Andreas%20Burgess.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">© Andreas Burgess</td></tr></tbody></table>&nbsp;This is the 13th time we've given out The Story Prize Spotlight Award. The 12 previous winners were:&nbsp;<i>Drifting House</i>&nbsp;by Krys Lee,&nbsp;<i>Byzantium</i>&nbsp;by Ben Stroud,&nbsp;<i>Praying Drunk</i>&nbsp;by Kyle Minor,&nbsp;<i>Killing and Dying</i>&nbsp;by Adrian Tomine,&nbsp;<i>Him, Me, Muhammad Ali</i>&nbsp;by Randa Jarrar,&nbsp;<i>Subcortical</i>&nbsp;by Lee Conell,&nbsp;<i>Half Gods</i>&nbsp;by Akil Kumarasamy, T<i>he Trojan War Museum</i>&nbsp;by Ayşe Papatya Bucak,&nbsp;<i>Inheritors</i>&nbsp;by Asako Serizawaand,&nbsp;<i>Born Into This</i>&nbsp;by Adam Thompson, <i>God's Children Are Little Broken Things</i>&nbsp;by Arinze Ifeakandu and, most recently, <i>The Goth House Experiment</i> by SJ Sindu.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p>You can find links to all thirteen books, including Shattuck's, on Bookshop, in the list&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/winners-of-the-story-prize-spotlight-award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Winners of The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>.</p><p>We'll announce the winner of The Story Prize on March 25 at a private event, which we'll live stream, featuring readings by and interviews with the three&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/01/presenting-20th-trio-of-finalists-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">finalists</a>: <i>Highway Thirteen </i>by Fiona McFarlane,&nbsp;<i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven </i>by Ruben Reyes Jr., and<i>&nbsp;</i><i>Ghost Pains by </i>Jessi Jezewska Stevens. And soon we'll post a long list of short story collections published in 2024.</p><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-history-of-sound-by-ben-shattuck-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPkBB6lG2UqkWkXqpmkOFjNiSfhQ9K7imibke_i_3MEPGdc72iaOuuFvLgSOg_UTPd43_-eMiXDBFvIWzeWot4oL91XGWMrxlJJ3tsQZhUiatC5f_08iACh60BZdK3pqbb-YsunYF6wLghgp9YGKfCbAAGIjn7nOLvf6FomN9FU7RYPZcLvFNiFvMwyHw/s72-c/The%20History%20of%20Sound%20cover.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-5359246999549350377</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-01-13T07:53:22.145-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2024/25 finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fiona McFarlane</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jessi Jezewska Stevens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ruben Reyes Jr.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><title> The 2024/25 Story Prize Finalists Are Fiona McFarlane, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Jessi Jezewska Stevens</title><description><p>The Story Prize, now in its 21st year, is pleased to honor as its finalists three outstanding short story collections chosen from 107 submissions representing 82 different publishers or imprints. Although it's no easy task to narrow the list down to three books, these collections particularly stood out for their originality in concept and execution.</p><p>The finalists are:&nbsp;</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/highway-thirteen-stories-fiona-mcfarlane/20374730?ean=9780374606268" target="_blank">Highway Thirteen</a></i> by Fiona McFarlane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)</li><li><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/there-is-a-rio-grande-in-heaven-stories-ruben-reyes-jr/20683095?ean=9780063336278" target="_blank">There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven</a></i> by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner Books)</li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ghost-pains-stories/19649072?ean=9781913505844" target="_blank"><i>Ghost Pains</i> </a>by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (And Other Stories)</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jpauETEwBI2XRSkCc_fTG-3nJ4QgF9naFPVYEgmNJiXaopWa72fUcgCloSGETfBkiMarXvG_T_SEV9ZniZiEQGdQoYhjEtX7vJbrxZTI6BF6H9D1BiQkfeMCk9N5-RuW637XcOHiJkfNe_pL0jNlfJx-ymZdICVOobd_mBoT-U2GEG4GHdxShzdJ9OgE/s720/2025%20finalist%20covers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="720" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jpauETEwBI2XRSkCc_fTG-3nJ4QgF9naFPVYEgmNJiXaopWa72fUcgCloSGETfBkiMarXvG_T_SEV9ZniZiEQGdQoYhjEtX7vJbrxZTI6BF6H9D1BiQkfeMCk9N5-RuW637XcOHiJkfNe_pL0jNlfJx-ymZdICVOobd_mBoT-U2GEG4GHdxShzdJ9OgE/s320/2025%20finalist%20covers.png" width="320" /></a></p><p><i>Highway Thirteen </i>portrays moments in the lives of characters peripherally connected to an Australian serial killer—from a next door neighbor to an actor playing the killer in a limited TV series to a retired police officer. <i>There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven </i>offers formally inventive narratives contemplating and riffing on aspects of Central American migration to the U.S. <i>Ghost Pains</i> provides a series of precisely written and keenly observed stories about characters in Europe and America facing quotidian predicaments in a time of cultural dissonance.</p><p>We'll announce the winner of The Story Prize on the evening of Tuesday, March 25, at a private event featuring readings by and interviews with finalists McFarlane, Reyes, and Stevens. The top prize is $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The runners-up will each receive $5,000. We plan to live-stream the event starting at 7:30 p.m. and will post a link before then and the video in the days that follow.&nbsp;</p><p>Story Prize Founder Julie Lindsey and Director Larry Dark selected the finalists. These three independent judges will determine the winner:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Writer and editor Elliott Holt;</li><li>Writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin; and</li><li>Bookseller Lucy Yu</li></ul><p></p><p>In the weeks ahead, we'll announce this year's winner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award. We'll also publish a longlist of other exceptional collections we read last year. You can find a complete list of the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2024-collections-received" target="_blank">story collections we received in 2024</a> on Bookshop.org.&nbsp;</p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-202425-story-prize-finalists-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jpauETEwBI2XRSkCc_fTG-3nJ4QgF9naFPVYEgmNJiXaopWa72fUcgCloSGETfBkiMarXvG_T_SEV9ZniZiEQGdQoYhjEtX7vJbrxZTI6BF6H9D1BiQkfeMCk9N5-RuW637XcOHiJkfNe_pL0jNlfJx-ymZdICVOobd_mBoT-U2GEG4GHdxShzdJ9OgE/s72-c/2025%20finalist%20covers.png" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-504418803422430854</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-03-29T12:49:49.370-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/26/24</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bennett Sims</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paul Yoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize at 20</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yiyun Li</category><title>Video of The Story Prize Event: Yiyun Li, Bennett Sims, and Paul Yoon (winner)—plus 20th Anniversary Highlights</title><description><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Here's the edited video of The Story Prize event held on March 26, 2024. It begins with highlights from the first 19 years of the award.</span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wNyka2Orn3s" width="320" youtube-src-id="wNyka2Orn3s"></iframe></div><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/03/video-of-story-prize-event-yiyun-li.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/wNyka2Orn3s/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-2256868098746886518</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-03-28T09:16:14.064-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/26/24</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paul Yoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize at 20</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize winner</category><title>What The Story Prize Judges Had to Say About The Hive and the Honey by Story Prize Winner Paul Yoon</title><description><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNFObxK6carHZpc8jx-yDA20xEWhF4hJHI-jRWLCa-P5KhjipqxhyphenhyphenXRNIjkZkiV1Vo6gLLSS7A8AJuf9kx8Lpjdq0BnHdxzH4CzJTBwLpBZom98L2NKD6VkHRhyphenhyphenKjsmE8ozJOy01j8alaxoYT8X6g31j4WxXPVcMRJR1q31sN7jgbFfXOE1VkDKxzVukk/s4050/2148AF8C-1F81-4030-908C-80E1628DF2C8.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNFObxK6carHZpc8jx-yDA20xEWhF4hJHI-jRWLCa-P5KhjipqxhyphenhyphenXRNIjkZkiV1Vo6gLLSS7A8AJuf9kx8Lpjdq0BnHdxzH4CzJTBwLpBZom98L2NKD6VkHRhyphenhyphenKjsmE8ozJOy01j8alaxoYT8X6g31j4WxXPVcMRJR1q31sN7jgbFfXOE1VkDKxzVukk/w426-h640/2148AF8C-1F81-4030-908C-80E1628DF2C8.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table><p>When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were critic and writer Merve Emre, librarian Allison Escoto, and writer Tania James. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about <i>The Hive and the Honey</i> by Yiyun Li:&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>“The seven stories in <i>The Hive and the Honey</i> are uncanny tales of loss and longing. A mother loses a child. A child loses a father. One man loses his home. Another loses his sense of time. Each loss is experienced by the character as a private or secluded grief, but Paul Yoon excavates grief's historic dimensions, revealing the long-lived aftershocks of the Korean War. The genius of the collection lies in its steadiness of style—Yoon's prose is quiet and fine and, at times, painfully precise—and its variety of genre. Domestic realism sits alongside folk tales, ghost stories, and imperial histories. The present is haunted by the past, and the past is violently and beautifully summoned in the present.”&nbsp;</p><p>“<i>The Hive and The Honey</i> is a collection of astonishing breadth, offering a panoramic portrait of Korean diaspora, of lives rescued from the margins of history. Here we encounter a samurai tasked with protecting an orphan boy; a haunted Korean settlement in Far East Russia; men and women fleeing brutal pasts, seeking connection or safety. And yet these characters are more elusive than can be summarized. They reveal themselves most acutely through intimate gestures: a girl inviting a bee to her teacup, a kid licking at the blood from his own broken nose, a man coming home from war with vegetable seeds tucked into his chest pocket. Such moments infuse the ordinary with lasting wonder and could only be achieved by a writer as patient, curious, and masterful as Paul Yoon.”</p></blockquote><p></p><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say_39.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNFObxK6carHZpc8jx-yDA20xEWhF4hJHI-jRWLCa-P5KhjipqxhyphenhyphenXRNIjkZkiV1Vo6gLLSS7A8AJuf9kx8Lpjdq0BnHdxzH4CzJTBwLpBZom98L2NKD6VkHRhyphenhyphenKjsmE8ozJOy01j8alaxoYT8X6g31j4WxXPVcMRJR1q31sN7jgbFfXOE1VkDKxzVukk/s72-w426-h640-c/2148AF8C-1F81-4030-908C-80E1628DF2C8.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-7624980028660680192</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-03-27T12:28:49.153-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023/24 Story Prize finalist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/26/24</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yiyun Li</category><title>What The Story Prize Judges Had to Say About Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li</title><description><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkThnvMehMdoFteXnWqHot3p_WBMd6qu1iihWEnJYZw0_wCnpHK37iEL3SM7fTYwf2Q8K6GS6ThnlKevAe6JKVt3sN1TAFoaOH0rv6fbbeGhFLjKSSiOD1zeUbJRqtOwRdVF5S5NZR_UX_FVKG6xhw1uc5D7ddf9-N1Wka6H711LZgcygsY5M4VwXIxmDK/s4050/5594479F-D6DD-4156-B6FC-84F9FA747B7C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkThnvMehMdoFteXnWqHot3p_WBMd6qu1iihWEnJYZw0_wCnpHK37iEL3SM7fTYwf2Q8K6GS6ThnlKevAe6JKVt3sN1TAFoaOH0rv6fbbeGhFLjKSSiOD1zeUbJRqtOwRdVF5S5NZR_UX_FVKG6xhw1uc5D7ddf9-N1Wka6H711LZgcygsY5M4VwXIxmDK/w266-h400/5594479F-D6DD-4156-B6FC-84F9FA747B7C.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table>When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were critic and writer Merve Emre, librarian Allison Escoto, and writer Tania James. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about <i>Wednesday's Child</i> by Yiyun Li:&nbsp;</div></span></div><p></p><blockquote>“Profound loss and its aftermath permeate this elegant collection of stories by a truly gifted writer. The people in these captivating stories are all moving through grief: a woman on a solo trip to Europe after the death of her child. A temporary nanny guides a new, dubious mother through the turbulence of the early days of motherhood, knowing she will have to leave the baby to an uncertain fate. An elderly dying professor reminisces about the small but meaningful moments of her life as her caretaker looks back on the events that guided her to this moment in her life. These characters are indelible, the quiet moments of their lives described through beautiful language. They lead lives that are both compelling and relatable; they stay with you long after you leave their story.”</blockquote><p></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say_27.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkThnvMehMdoFteXnWqHot3p_WBMd6qu1iihWEnJYZw0_wCnpHK37iEL3SM7fTYwf2Q8K6GS6ThnlKevAe6JKVt3sN1TAFoaOH0rv6fbbeGhFLjKSSiOD1zeUbJRqtOwRdVF5S5NZR_UX_FVKG6xhw1uc5D7ddf9-N1Wka6H711LZgcygsY5M4VwXIxmDK/s72-w266-h400-c/5594479F-D6DD-4156-B6FC-84F9FA747B7C.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-3059462018471729144</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-03-27T12:29:07.939-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023/24 finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/26/24</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bennett Sims</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">story prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><title>What The Story Prize Judges Had to Say About Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims</title><description><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTo2J0T2WJsVL9FjtB4zElnuwKhYSme0NRC0TSq-zTPKxjEQ6fsCfHN831LjaQkA9QYC7chxR09R7ZxNozk5Eztr6_vz1xhrCqhSp16ECTc9G9AJgtmd5hj-_SEPayHxQjFOQO_cIE6UkV_-vz4ZPiuUcdmtxe5JRU9hSbMASfw94LZXyhGjHBfO4gRyhQ/s4050/8BFF9380-00AE-4888-A36E-84E91EE2F1DA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photo @ Beowulf Sheehan" border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTo2J0T2WJsVL9FjtB4zElnuwKhYSme0NRC0TSq-zTPKxjEQ6fsCfHN831LjaQkA9QYC7chxR09R7ZxNozk5Eztr6_vz1xhrCqhSp16ECTc9G9AJgtmd5hj-_SEPayHxQjFOQO_cIE6UkV_-vz4ZPiuUcdmtxe5JRU9hSbMASfw94LZXyhGjHBfO4gRyhQ/w266-h400/8BFF9380-00AE-4888-A36E-84E91EE2F1DA.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table>When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they write citations for their top choices. This year's judges were critic and writer Merve Emre, librarian Allison Escoto, and writer Tania James. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about <i>Other Minds and Other Stories</i>&nbsp;by Bennett Sims:&nbsp;</div><p></p><p></p><blockquote>“Bennett Sims is an original. There <i>are</i> no other stories like the stories in <i>Other Minds and Other Stories</i> (except perhaps those in his previous collection). The book amounts to an intense and artful exploration of the difficulty of truly understanding other minds, and as such also serves as a deep dive into the question of individual identity, of the mind that is seeking to understand. Some of the stories seem to be as much essays or philosophical explorations as they are fiction and unfurl via a single, long unbroken paragraph, a form that echoes the work of the great W.G. Sebald. Sims is extremely erudite with an expansive vocabulary, but his choice of words never seems strained. <i>Other Minds</i> is a collection that challenges the reader but also offers satisfactions comparable to cracking a code or solving a puzzle. When you get it, you get it. These stories invite you to engage, to join the enquiry—and they never condescend. It is an impressive high-wire act, a reading experience unlike any other.”</blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTo2J0T2WJsVL9FjtB4zElnuwKhYSme0NRC0TSq-zTPKxjEQ6fsCfHN831LjaQkA9QYC7chxR09R7ZxNozk5Eztr6_vz1xhrCqhSp16ECTc9G9AJgtmd5hj-_SEPayHxQjFOQO_cIE6UkV_-vz4ZPiuUcdmtxe5JRU9hSbMASfw94LZXyhGjHBfO4gRyhQ/s72-w266-h400-c/8BFF9380-00AE-4888-A36E-84E91EE2F1DA.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-257000592932018060</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-03-27T08:23:35.899-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">3/26/24</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paul Yoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize at 20</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize winner</category><title>The 20th Winner of The Story Prize Is The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon!</title><description><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSo-UnWjjrObAJy1-ik0P4g2PoT9InQkTGslhGzNU5x9VjlUp3PwgXT4A4EqTv0e3GNidkZxvxQIh14zl09n6fJZ4RpPaIMAhKACQUiL5uFCzh6RHbTlXfT_jMBILI99bmi15d3Q0fu5j2nZIVDqMhLg_XiOvwhmKom52dlijyXUKL2oWnUQ66rjrWluoh/s4050/EED3A4EB-5F96-4F01-AC06-C5B69DF5E2F7.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSo-UnWjjrObAJy1-ik0P4g2PoT9InQkTGslhGzNU5x9VjlUp3PwgXT4A4EqTv0e3GNidkZxvxQIh14zl09n6fJZ4RpPaIMAhKACQUiL5uFCzh6RHbTlXfT_jMBILI99bmi15d3Q0fu5j2nZIVDqMhLg_XiOvwhmKom52dlijyXUKL2oWnUQ66rjrWluoh/w426-h640/EED3A4EB-5F96-4F01-AC06-C5B69DF5E2F7.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As announced at a private event that was broadcast live, the winner of The Story Prize for books published in 2023 is Paul Yoon for <i>The Hive and the Honey</i> (Marysue Rucci Books). The other finalists were Yiyun Li for <i>Wednesday’s Child</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Bennett Sims for <i>Other Minds and Other Stories</i> (Two Dollar Radio). The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. As runners-up, Li and Sims each received $5,000. The evening began with the showing of a short video featuring highlights from the first 19 years of the award.</div><br /><i>The Hive and the Honey,</i> is Yoon’s fifth book of fiction and his third short story collection. The judges cited the book for its widely varied settings, skillful prose, profundity, and restrained but poignantly evocative tone<br /><br />Director Larry Dark and Founder Julie Lindsey selected the three finalists for The Story Prize, now in its 20th year, from among 113 short story collections published in 2023, representing 84 different publishers or imprints. Three judges—critic and writer Merve Emre; librarian Allison Escoto, and writer Tania James—determined the winner from among the three books chosen as finalists.</description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-20th-winner-of-story-prize-is-hive.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSo-UnWjjrObAJy1-ik0P4g2PoT9InQkTGslhGzNU5x9VjlUp3PwgXT4A4EqTv0e3GNidkZxvxQIh14zl09n6fJZ4RpPaIMAhKACQUiL5uFCzh6RHbTlXfT_jMBILI99bmi15d3Q0fu5j2nZIVDqMhLg_XiOvwhmKom52dlijyXUKL2oWnUQ66rjrWluoh/s72-w426-h640-c/EED3A4EB-5F96-4F01-AC06-C5B69DF5E2F7.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-2085658253040936812</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-02-07T09:47:10.175-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collections by accomplished writers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">long list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other notable collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize at 20</category><title>The Story Prize Longlist for Story Collections Published in 2023</title><description><p>At The Story Prize, we announce our shortlist of&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/01/presenting-20th-trio-of-finalists-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">three finalists</a>&nbsp;first—as we did a few weeks ago—then release our longlist later. The three finalists,&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-goth-house-experiment-by-sj-sindu.html" target="_blank">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>&nbsp;winner (which we recently announced), and the longlist combine to highlight 20 books. Here are the books published in 2023 that we've chosen:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfWh9lUN0oqM9DcTRXVQtsYiLGFGfy9RP0TC4p7FDxIbdFz59_L1rw21kpOSOvaQ1Ok9pu09MhCPxVPV5TeAdpV3ICFw3Bi3FFePy-KRUARQCGOa_P3Am_LhIMyp03EDNa6C89JWF8uM6Rq-PeRB3uiXHQRjxYqJRT8-gBNnLJ-pKlqlCU2P5_xkNbdK3/s3874/IMG_2898.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2682" data-original-width="3874" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfWh9lUN0oqM9DcTRXVQtsYiLGFGfy9RP0TC4p7FDxIbdFz59_L1rw21kpOSOvaQ1Ok9pu09MhCPxVPV5TeAdpV3ICFw3Bi3FFePy-KRUARQCGOa_P3Am_LhIMyp03EDNa6C89JWF8uM6Rq-PeRB3uiXHQRjxYqJRT8-gBNnLJ-pKlqlCU2P5_xkNbdK3/w400-h278/IMG_2898.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp; <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/temple-folk/18860230?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781982191818&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Temple Folk</a> </i>by Aaliyah Bilal (Simon &amp; Schuster)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/witness-stories-jamel-brinkley/18789170?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780374607036&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witness</a></i> by Jamel Brinkley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-meant-it-once-kate-doyle/19071358?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781643752815&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>I Meant It Once</i> </a>by Kate Doyle (Algonquin Books)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-faraway-world-stories-patricia-engel/19684559?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781982159528&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Faraway World</a></i> by Patricia Engle (Avid Reader Press)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/elsewhere-stories-yan-ge/19603748?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781982198480&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elsewhere</a></i> by Yan Ge (Scribner)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/after-the-funeral-and-other-stories/18868628?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780593536193&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>After the Funeral</i> </a>by Tessa Hadley (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/games-and-rituals-stories-katherine-heiny/18668611?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780525659518&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Games and Rituals </a></i>by Katherine Heiny (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-best-possible-experience-stories/18860732?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780593317693&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Best Possible Experience</i> </a>by Nishanth Injam (Pantheon)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/so-late-in-the-day-stories-of-women-and-men/19824713?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780802160850&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">So Late in the Day</a></i> by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/disruptions-stories-steven-millhauser/19026717?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780593535417&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disruptions</a></i> by Steven Millhauser (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-am-my-country-and-other-stories-kenan-orhan/18695292?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780593449462&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>I Am My Country</i></a> by Kenan Orhan (Random House)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-disappeared-stories-andrew-porter/18564186?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780593534304&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Disappeared</a> </i>by Andrew Porter (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/this-is-salvaged-stories-vauhini-vara/19659665?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780393541731&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Is Salvaged</a> </i>by Vauhini Vara (W.W. Norton)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-people-who-report-more-stress-stories-alejandro-varela/18723894?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781662601071&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The People Who Report More Stress</a></i> by Alejandro Varela (Astra House)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-people-who-report-more-stress-stories-alejandro-varela/18723894?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781662601071&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dearborn</a></i> by Ghassan Zeineddine (Tin House)<br /><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>•&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sorrows-of-others-ada-zhang/18628598?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781736370964&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sorrows of Others </a></i>by Ada Zhang (A Public Space)<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last year, The Story Prize received 113 books published by 84 different publishers or imprints. We read more worthwhile short story collections than is practical to include on our longlist, and it was very difficult to narrow down the choices. (That's why we take extra time to do some rereading before releasing our list.) As always, we believe that every writer who writes and publishes a short story collection has accomplished something significant and deserves a ton of credit.&nbsp;</div><p>We've put together a&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bookshop list</a>&nbsp;of all the story collections that we received in 2023, many more worth reading than can fit on our longlist. We'll announce the 20th winner of The Story Prize on March 26 at a private event featuring readings by and interviews with the three finalists—Yiyun Li, Bennett Sims, and Paul Yoon. Before then, we'll provide links to watch the program live or online in the days that follow the announcement of the winner.</p></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-story-prize-longlist-for-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfWh9lUN0oqM9DcTRXVQtsYiLGFGfy9RP0TC4p7FDxIbdFz59_L1rw21kpOSOvaQ1Ok9pu09MhCPxVPV5TeAdpV3ICFw3Bi3FFePy-KRUARQCGOa_P3Am_LhIMyp03EDNa6C89JWF8uM6Rq-PeRB3uiXHQRjxYqJRT8-gBNnLJ-pKlqlCU2P5_xkNbdK3/s72-w400-h278-c/IMG_2898.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-4846766753027706588</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-02-01T10:28:42.883-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SJ Sindu</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Soho Press</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</category><title>The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu Wins The Story Prize Spotlight Award</title><description><p>In addition to naming three finalists each year, we also present The <a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20Spotlight%20Award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Story Prize Spotlight Award</a> to a collection of exceptional merit. Selected books can be promising works by first-time authors, collections in alternative formats, or works that demonstrate an unusual perspective on the writer's craft. The award includes a prize of $1,000.&nbsp;</p><p>We're pleased to announce that the winner for books published in 2023 is <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-goth-house-experiment-sj-sindu/19656643?ean=9781641295192" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Goth House Experiment</a></i> by SJ Sindu, published by Soho Press. These six inventive stories, perfectly executed,&nbsp;stood out from the pack.&nbsp;</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuntaXjmSFpJxHcPtI0C6ZdE4Sga9QWi-iiumqIQhxxqiPPxzyWSt-fbwFUpBDT-PfdqPApI0rUDcXdDH_vko-GpZiEBXgATh4jie8kDQQtpQjBeQYP2LilpvuUWPpom6Dn4Fdxwge2bSEPgqgJsX1dFvOhNthz9iWJD5J0XDMjosoxS8S_1lB_4boDdVT/s4000/SJ%20Sindu%202021_credit%20Sarah%20Bodri.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2670" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuntaXjmSFpJxHcPtI0C6ZdE4Sga9QWi-iiumqIQhxxqiPPxzyWSt-fbwFUpBDT-PfdqPApI0rUDcXdDH_vko-GpZiEBXgATh4jie8kDQQtpQjBeQYP2LilpvuUWPpom6Dn4Fdxwge2bSEPgqgJsX1dFvOhNthz9iWJD5J0XDMjosoxS8S_1lB_4boDdVT/w214-h320/SJ%20Sindu%202021_credit%20Sarah%20Bodri.jpeg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Sarah Bodri</td></tr></tbody></table>SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora writer whose other works include the novels <i>Marriage of a Thousand Lies</i> (winner of the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book) and <i>Blue-Skinned Gods</i> (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award), as well as the graphic novel <i>Shakti</i> and the chapbooks <i>I Once Met You But You Were Dead </i>and <i>Dominant Genes</i>. Sindu holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.<p></p><p>This is the 12th time we've given out The Story Prize Spotlight Award. The nine previous winners were: <i>Drifting House</i> by Krys Lee, <i>Byzantium</i> by Ben Stroud, <i>Praying Drunk</i> by Kyle Minor, <i>Killing and Dying</i> by Adrian Tomine, <i>Him, Me, Muhammad Ali</i> by Randa Jarrar, <i>Subcortical</i> by Lee Conell, <i>Half Gods</i> by Akil Kumarasamy, T<i>he Trojan War Museum</i> by Ayşe Papatya Bucak, <i>Inheritors</i> by Asako Serizawaand, <i>Born Into This</i> by Adam Thompson, and, most recently, <i>God's Children Are Little Broken Things</i> by Arinze Ifeakandu.&nbsp;</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_iv46luceInn0e4Rwcsizg8fbxi5aCYIegBkPO30jEhySzhFL4RUiV6C_zkrLNv0kIMpKY8rPV6smdf8DxQY_S1T_PBpTS-h1lbHvdBWtDV_C7yqhU545S1fwTThFSTQyJkIzMWatXcIUDO5YksuHvPRS380XrptSIRtuqS0XIJbEF6jktSr6799u_J7/s2800/The%20Goth%20House%20Experiment.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2800" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_iv46luceInn0e4Rwcsizg8fbxi5aCYIegBkPO30jEhySzhFL4RUiV6C_zkrLNv0kIMpKY8rPV6smdf8DxQY_S1T_PBpTS-h1lbHvdBWtDV_C7yqhU545S1fwTThFSTQyJkIzMWatXcIUDO5YksuHvPRS380XrptSIRtuqS0XIJbEF6jktSr6799u_J7/w229-h320/The%20Goth%20House%20Experiment.jpeg" width="229" /></a></div><p></p><p>You can find links to all eleven books, including Sindu's, on Bookshop, in the list <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/winners-of-the-story-prize-spotlight-award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Winners of The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>.</p><p>We'll announce the winner of The Story Prize on March 26 at a private event, which we'll live stream, featuring readings by and interviews with the three <a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/01/presenting-20th-trio-of-finalists-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">finalists</a>: <i>Wednesday’s Child</i> by Yiyun Li, <i>Other Minds and Other Stories</i> by Bennett Sims, and <i>The Hive and the Honey </i>by Paul Yoon. And soon we'll post a long list of short story collections published in 2023.</p><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-goth-house-experiment-by-sj-sindu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuntaXjmSFpJxHcPtI0C6ZdE4Sga9QWi-iiumqIQhxxqiPPxzyWSt-fbwFUpBDT-PfdqPApI0rUDcXdDH_vko-GpZiEBXgATh4jie8kDQQtpQjBeQYP2LilpvuUWPpom6Dn4Fdxwge2bSEPgqgJsX1dFvOhNthz9iWJD5J0XDMjosoxS8S_1lB_4boDdVT/s72-w214-h320-c/SJ%20Sindu%202021_credit%20Sarah%20Bodri.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-7675176614674000833</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-01-09T08:00:00.271-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2023/24 finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bennett Sims</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paul Yoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">story prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yiyun Li</category><title>Presenting the 20th Trio of Finalists for The Story Prize: Yiyun Li, Bennett Sims, and Paul Yoon</title><description><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Now in its 20th year, The Story Prize is pleased to honor as its finalists three outstanding short story collections chosen from 113 submissions representing 84 different publishers or imprints. The range of story collections published in 2022 was broad and the quality was high, and it was difficult to narrow the list down to three books, as it usually is.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">This year's finalists are:&nbsp;</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><p><span style="color: #444444;">•</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #444444;">&nbsp;</span></span><i style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/wednesday-s-child-stories-yiyun-li/19509972?aid=12843&amp;ean=9780374606374&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received&amp;page=3" target="_blank">Wednesday's Child</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></i><span style="color: #444444;">by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)</span></p><p style="color: #444444;">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/other-minds-and-other-stories-bennett-sims/19479545?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781953387356&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received&amp;page=4" target="_blank">Other Minds and Other Strories</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></i>by Bennett Sims (Two Dollar Radio)</p><p style="color: #444444;">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hive-and-the-honey-stories-paul-yoon/19855271?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781668020791&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2023-collections-received&amp;page=5" target="_blank">The Hive and the Honey</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>by Paul Yoon (Marysue Rucci Books)</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FbDe7A2zwlUR64i8yEX6T_mmIljDl0Zu-JpnCGFjWVpX_FXLQXt-vanBtu586KS5qKfPspdOexYWxQS-yQ_w2noIfy81NMnATstLsB3AnbYMDbYT5ekRfLbuILlmwcEK0qo6NC53Lk6vGtBBUkioclmo_a1-JK1WceNbvcfzU_ZbsHEylyOtSZntJJou/s2122/Finalist%20covers%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="2122" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FbDe7A2zwlUR64i8yEX6T_mmIljDl0Zu-JpnCGFjWVpX_FXLQXt-vanBtu586KS5qKfPspdOexYWxQS-yQ_w2noIfy81NMnATstLsB3AnbYMDbYT5ekRfLbuILlmwcEK0qo6NC53Lk6vGtBBUkioclmo_a1-JK1WceNbvcfzU_ZbsHEylyOtSZntJJou/w400-h208/Finalist%20covers%20cropped.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Yiyun Li was also a finalist in&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/01/presenting-story-prize-finalists.html" target="_blank">2011</a>. We will announce the winner of</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2022-collections-received?page=4" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #3778cd; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Story Prize</a><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">on the evening of Tuesday, March 26, at a private event featuring readings by and interviews with finalists Li, Sims, and Yoon, as well as the announcement of the winner and acceptance of the $20,000 top prize and the engraved silver bowl that goes with it. The runners-up will each receive $5,000. We plan to live-stream the event starting at 7:30 p.m. and will post a link before then and a video the next day.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Story Prize Founder Julie Lindsey and Director Larry Dark selected the finalists. Three independent&nbsp;</span><a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/10/announcing-2023-story-prize-judges.html" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #3778cd; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">judges</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;will determine the winner:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><ul style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em; text-size-adjust: auto;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Critic and author Merve Emre;</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Librarian Allison Escoto; and</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Writer Tania James</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><p style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;">In the weeks ahead, we'll announce this year's winner of&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20Spotlight%20Award" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>. We'll also publish a&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/long%20list" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">long list</a>&nbsp;of other exceptional collections we read last year and information on how to watch the event. And you can find a list of the story collections we received in 2023 on <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2023-collections-received" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2024/01/presenting-20th-trio-of-finalists-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FbDe7A2zwlUR64i8yEX6T_mmIljDl0Zu-JpnCGFjWVpX_FXLQXt-vanBtu586KS5qKfPspdOexYWxQS-yQ_w2noIfy81NMnATstLsB3AnbYMDbYT5ekRfLbuILlmwcEK0qo6NC53Lk6vGtBBUkioclmo_a1-JK1WceNbvcfzU_ZbsHEylyOtSZntJJou/s72-w400-h208-c/Finalist%20covers%20cropped.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-167969493297007216</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-10-10T10:04:50.176-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Allison Escoto</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Merve Emre</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tania James</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize at 20</category><title>Announcing the 2023 Story Prize Judges: Merve Emre, Alllison Escoto, and Tania James!</title><description><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTM8eJslr-l4XyAOsBOPuTdkURAZvRjxtvJ4Ckdv6PPFYy8nK3GSLa-da5ZhPGqzzOvAe5WY6aZOHKMkLIyzHyCW6i0ECUW_YlvxJ6ja73-Qd5cFxHpxkfdqzFBNIzjt3HI-9wfiI9W5JLqLPewlaxn1S16jD1EI3vYAZv2YzkxOgIFjRc9_DPpEbNE7tK/s4500/TSP-judges-04.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="4500" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTM8eJslr-l4XyAOsBOPuTdkURAZvRjxtvJ4Ckdv6PPFYy8nK3GSLa-da5ZhPGqzzOvAe5WY6aZOHKMkLIyzHyCW6i0ECUW_YlvxJ6ja73-Qd5cFxHpxkfdqzFBNIzjt3HI-9wfiI9W5JLqLPewlaxn1S16jD1EI3vYAZv2YzkxOgIFjRc9_DPpEbNE7tK/w400-h226/TSP-judges-04.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(L to R) Merve Emre, Allison Escoto, and Tania James</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: left;">Each year The Story Prize enlists three judges to choose the winner from among the three short story collections we select as finalists and annunce in January. In alternating years one of the judges is bookseller and one is a librarian. One judge is always a short story writer, and the third can be a critic, editor, or academic.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The judges who will choose the 20th winner of The Story Prize in March 2024 are critic and writer Merve Emre, head librarian at The Center for Fiction Allison Escoto, and novelist and short story writer Tania James. We didn't aim to have all three judges be women. It just turned out that this was the best group of judges we felt we could assemble this year—a pretty impressive bunch.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Merve Emre</b> is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include <i>Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers</i> (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by <i>The New York Times, The Economist,</i> NPR, and <i>The Spectator</i>), <i>The Ferrante Letters </i>(winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature), and <i>The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. </i>She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at <i>The New Yorker.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Allison Escoto </b>is the head librarian and director of education at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. She has worked as a librarian for more than twenty years in various libraries in and around New York City. She also reviews books for <i>Booklist</i> and serves on the ALA RUSA Notables committee. From 2017-2020, she was the Associate Editor for <i>Newtown Literary Journal,</i> a publication dedicated to featuring writers from her beloved Queens.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Tania James </b>is the author of four works of fiction, most recently <i>Loot</i> (Knopf), which was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award in fiction. Her short stories have appeared in <i>Freeman’s; Granta; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; </i>and <i>One Story,</i> among other places, and featured on Symphony Space Selected Shorts. An associate professor of English in the MFA program at George Mason University, she lives in Washington, D.C.</div><p></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/10/announcing-2023-story-prize-judges.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTM8eJslr-l4XyAOsBOPuTdkURAZvRjxtvJ4Ckdv6PPFYy8nK3GSLa-da5ZhPGqzzOvAe5WY6aZOHKMkLIyzHyCW6i0ECUW_YlvxJ6ja73-Qd5cFxHpxkfdqzFBNIzjt3HI-9wfiI9W5JLqLPewlaxn1S16jD1EI3vYAZv2YzkxOgIFjRc9_DPpEbNE7tK/s72-w400-h226-c/TSP-judges-04.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-5917919092463782081</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-03-18T16:08:35.871-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/15/23</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Andrea Barrett</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ling Ma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Morgan Talty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Video of The Story Prize event: Andrea Barrett, Ling Ma (winner), and Morgan Talty</title><description><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Here's the edited video of The Story Prize event held on March 15.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="336" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QU6-pihohQ0" width="480" youtube-src-id="QU6-pihohQ0"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/video-of-story-prize-event-andrea.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/QU6-pihohQ0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-4558007163624049552</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-09-28T12:54:42.962-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/15/23</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ling Ma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pictures from The Story Prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize winner</category><title>What the Judges Had to Say About The Story Prize Winner, Bliss Montage by Ling Ma</title><description><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprRNphfLDd_9GnYC1dYbm8PAWN44J3rBfPqpGy2_TdfVLWEYMxTuSTjuUwF4SslabE0QK5EbfPuma2hQkKXmZvM3Cbv7o-rWNZ1dsOOCKh1gJJEaoG1uDbO1oLObxQPGgmzdwthSyjG9gWcVd9gxEfHNlr-ADFNOMWuv-FLjO9lmUyHIXwj3E7G-Hfg/s4050/StoryPrize031523_125.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprRNphfLDd_9GnYC1dYbm8PAWN44J3rBfPqpGy2_TdfVLWEYMxTuSTjuUwF4SslabE0QK5EbfPuma2hQkKXmZvM3Cbv7o-rWNZ1dsOOCKh1gJJEaoG1uDbO1oLObxQPGgmzdwthSyjG9gWcVd9gxEfHNlr-ADFNOMWuv-FLjO9lmUyHIXwj3E7G-Hfg/w426-h640/StoryPrize031523_125.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they provide citations for the books. This year's judges were critic, writer, and editor Adam Dalva, writer Danielle Evans, and bookseller and podcaster Miwa Messer. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about&nbsp;<i>Night of the Living Rez&nbsp;</i>by Morgan Talty:</p><div><div></div></div><blockquote><div><div>“There is much to love about this stylish, inventive collection—Ma melds humor and the surreal beautifully, resulting in a project that is at once absurd and insightful. Two of the stories feel like all-time greats: ‘Peking Duck’ is a many-layered masterpiece of telling and retelling that serves as counterpoint to the argument that nothing can be gained by writing about a writing class; ‘Returning’ is a meandering, brilliant look at separation, art, and unique traditions. The rest of the collection lives up to these high points, especially ‘Office Hours,’ with its uncanny ending. Who but Ling Ma could give us flirty yetis and an unforgettable baby arm, dangling? This is an expansive, bold, and delightful book.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“The stories in Ling Ma’s collection, <i>Bliss Montage, </i>sneak up on you. Relationships old and new, a marriage on the rocks, a friendship that’s run its course, a wildly challenging pregnancy—we think we’ve heard these setups before. But then Ma takes a remarkable tack: 100 ex-boyfriends in your home, an unexpected baby arm, a Yeti, a harrowing homecoming (of sorts). At first the absurdities reveal a familiar sense of disbelief and loss. Sit longer, and the comically outlandish stories in <i>Bliss Montage</i> reveal a thrumming rage and grief, the shocking truths we try to ignore.”&nbsp;</div></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-judges-had-to-say-about-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprRNphfLDd_9GnYC1dYbm8PAWN44J3rBfPqpGy2_TdfVLWEYMxTuSTjuUwF4SslabE0QK5EbfPuma2hQkKXmZvM3Cbv7o-rWNZ1dsOOCKh1gJJEaoG1uDbO1oLObxQPGgmzdwthSyjG9gWcVd9gxEfHNlr-ADFNOMWuv-FLjO9lmUyHIXwj3E7G-Hfg/s72-w426-h640-c/StoryPrize031523_125.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-5749503623372810735</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-09-28T12:55:52.671-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/15/23</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022/23 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Morgan Talty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tin house books</category><title>What The Story Prize Judges Had to Say About Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkOU4be89ooEF5OUR9mWJ91F_sqvnAvWthk0qhy7JVctut22HVoUXA45ycw3vDWMSYqjdC4VQSpC7bXwihL0iWUtE38t6oUgaKf5ehO00C3uLR231jHrboTHtpcOTj9vcM8RYww1MSnysMM2qFTDcPtsifQLTpouO91qWUya23P62ghWmWSkbGsQNIg/s4050/StoryPrize031523_228.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkOU4be89ooEF5OUR9mWJ91F_sqvnAvWthk0qhy7JVctut22HVoUXA45ycw3vDWMSYqjdC4VQSpC7bXwihL0iWUtE38t6oUgaKf5ehO00C3uLR231jHrboTHtpcOTj9vcM8RYww1MSnysMM2qFTDcPtsifQLTpouO91qWUya23P62ghWmWSkbGsQNIg/w266-h400/StoryPrize031523_228.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they provide citations for the books. This year's judges were critic, writer, and editor Adam Dalva, writer Danielle Evans, and bookseller and podcaster Miwa Messer. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about <i>Night of the Living Rez </i>by Morgan Talty:</div></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">“There’s a glorious soul—a convergence of humor and grief, anger and love—pulsing through Morgan Talty’s indelible debut, <i>Night of the Living Rez.</i> The language sings and stings in these painful, powerful tragicomic stories of David, his family and his friends, and a community challenged by poverty, addiction and trauma.”&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“Talty’s ambient, hazy stories are small wonders, teeming with pain that is consistently countered by the quiet, resilient warmth coursing through this fascinatingly structured collection. Though many of the collection's characters, inhabitants of the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation, suffer from difficulties ranging from mental illness to addiction, Talty’s sense-work and insightful touch offer light in the face of despair.”</div></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say_16.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkOU4be89ooEF5OUR9mWJ91F_sqvnAvWthk0qhy7JVctut22HVoUXA45ycw3vDWMSYqjdC4VQSpC7bXwihL0iWUtE38t6oUgaKf5ehO00C3uLR231jHrboTHtpcOTj9vcM8RYww1MSnysMM2qFTDcPtsifQLTpouO91qWUya23P62ghWmWSkbGsQNIg/s72-w266-h400-c/StoryPrize031523_228.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-4233400847617249711</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-09-28T12:56:13.213-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/15/23</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022/23 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Andrea Barrett</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Story Prize judges</category><title>What The Story Prize Judges Had to Say About Natural History by Andrea Barrett</title><description><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU3JLZnxYjeqsfXdcg0PHD1JY04195Lqo4L8xLdq8y7OA1sGkFNoO022OOP2NViHYOIgan-p8TMgsh0u9f-MKY_jgwUtBEIuHmEobdkPabCchztTg_q2ysVtvEqeAmEGON8MZsisNe36MJGSqamrOQPqtNDnQCt3x2G4Z1yVYkFbta0O-m78IEDSVyA/s4050/StoryPrize031523_230.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="4050" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU3JLZnxYjeqsfXdcg0PHD1JY04195Lqo4L8xLdq8y7OA1sGkFNoO022OOP2NViHYOIgan-p8TMgsh0u9f-MKY_jgwUtBEIuHmEobdkPabCchztTg_q2ysVtvEqeAmEGON8MZsisNe36MJGSqamrOQPqtNDnQCt3x2G4Z1yVYkFbta0O-m78IEDSVyA/w400-h266/StoryPrize031523_230.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>When the three judges for The Story Prize make their choices, they provide citations for the books. This year's judges were critic, writer, and editor Adam Dalva, writer Danielle Evans, and bookseller and podcaster Miwa Messer. We include the citations in congratulatory letters we present to each finalist, along with their checks ($20,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the other two finalists). To protect the confidentiality of the judges' votes and the integrity of the process, we don't attribute citations to any particular judge. Here's what the judges had to say about <i>Natural History</i> by Andrea Barrett:<br /><blockquote>“Andrea Barrett’s <i>Natural History</i> moves brilliantly through time and memory, building a complicated and compelling family tree. The stories in this collection are mesmerizing in their ability to balance illumination of the unknown or forgotten—lingering in lost histories, small moments of scientific wonder, and the private secrets of relationships—with a reverence for the unknowable, and a willingness to let stories or characters hold on to their mystery when it serves them.”</blockquote></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-story-prize-judges-had-to-say.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU3JLZnxYjeqsfXdcg0PHD1JY04195Lqo4L8xLdq8y7OA1sGkFNoO022OOP2NViHYOIgan-p8TMgsh0u9f-MKY_jgwUtBEIuHmEobdkPabCchztTg_q2ysVtvEqeAmEGON8MZsisNe36MJGSqamrOQPqtNDnQCt3x2G4Z1yVYkFbta0O-m78IEDSVyA/s72-w400-h266-c/StoryPrize031523_230.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-3332103300222731873</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-03-16T08:01:22.553-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">03/15/23</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022/23 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bookshop list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FSG</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ling Ma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize winner</category><title>Ling Ma's Bliss Montage is the 19th Winner of The Story Prize!</title><description><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH2s-GNGJaaFc8DoXQyJ9FQbEAHfYO1N2LqbD-YPwD3jM-H4EZRajE-2c04Gcfgij5rWjy5b2xiLxDBmGGbBEB2vVBYaLTFvYpXL2apnzgYY1kfb03smmMtBc2CcZ5rGin1HJgWRGGVv7zJtc5z00ln6GQFen088pKyil9OJWTJMxq8mTeEa1Ks0W1g/s4050/StoryPrize031523_184.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4050" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH2s-GNGJaaFc8DoXQyJ9FQbEAHfYO1N2LqbD-YPwD3jM-H4EZRajE-2c04Gcfgij5rWjy5b2xiLxDBmGGbBEB2vVBYaLTFvYpXL2apnzgYY1kfb03smmMtBc2CcZ5rGin1HJgWRGGVv7zJtc5z00ln6GQFen088pKyil9OJWTJMxq8mTeEa1Ks0W1g/w266-h400/StoryPrize031523_184.jpeg" title="Ling Ma, winner of The Story Prize (photo © Beowulf Sheehan)" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo © Beowulf Sheehan</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The winner of The Story Prize for books published in 2022 is&nbsp;</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Bliss Montage</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Ling Ma.&nbsp;</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We announced Ma as the 19th winner of the prize after an evening of readings by and interviews with the three finalists for The Story Prize, Andrea Barrett for <i>Natural History</i> (W.W. Norton &amp; Co.) and Morgan Talty for <i>Night of the Living Rez, </i>in addition to Ma.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><i>&nbsp;</i></div><div>The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. Ma also received an engraved silver bowl, which The Story Prize presents to all winners. As runners-up, Barrett and Talty each received $5,000.</div><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Director Larry Dark and Founder Julie Lindsey selected the three finalists for The Story Prize, now in its 19th year, from among 119 books entered in 2022, representing 79 different publishers or imprints. Three judges—critic, author, and editor Adam Dalva; author Danielle Evans, and bookseller and podcaster Miwa Messer—determined the winner from among the three books chosen as finalists.&nbsp;</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Buy&nbsp;<i>Bliss Montage, Natural History,&nbsp;</i><i>Night of the LIving Rez</i>&nbsp;other story collections published in 2022 from your local bookseller or on&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2022-collections-received" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Bookshop</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Congratulations to Ling Ma and to Farrar, Straus and Giroux!&nbsp;</p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/ling-mas-bliss-montage-is-19th-winner.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH2s-GNGJaaFc8DoXQyJ9FQbEAHfYO1N2LqbD-YPwD3jM-H4EZRajE-2c04Gcfgij5rWjy5b2xiLxDBmGGbBEB2vVBYaLTFvYpXL2apnzgYY1kfb03smmMtBc2CcZ5rGin1HJgWRGGVv7zJtc5z00ln6GQFen088pKyil9OJWTJMxq8mTeEa1Ks0W1g/s72-w266-h400-c/StoryPrize031523_184.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-9084446055606742980</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-03-08T06:35:03.845-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022/23 Story Prize finalists</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Andrea Barrett</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ling Ma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Morgan Talty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the story prize event</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Live-Stream The Story Prize Award Event on March 15 at 7:30 p.m.</title><description><p>The Story Prize event is just a week away. Although we're having a private award night this year, we're going to live-stream it on YouTube. Here's the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG4nk31ucEg" target="_blank">link</a>.</p><p>What you'll see and hear is the three finalists for The Story Prize for books published in 2022—Andrea Barrett for <i>Natural History</i> (W.W. Norton), Ling Ma for <i>Bliss Montage </i>(FSG), and Morgan Talty for <i>Night of the Living Rez </i>(Tin House)—read from and discuss their short story collections before we announce the 19th winner of The Story Prize and present that writer with an engraved silver bowl and the top prize of $20,000. The other two finalists will each take home $5,000.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPV8t6Krvl_icF1W4EE3_doWLn9r-QF8s-4Y-V0hh8geFGmXZcfmfYek0cpt_HnvD3h4dyw-zNgspUxMJTNrZm0uY3oGjYV6GnjgtDCJ-ARQNrRqGC_yV_-IbbzKW049TH5rsB2M5Fd1bgmXImu4Jos5nJvlgSNVFXfeAP9jT7Ie-jiy480kGC2Pi6Q/s2110/Untitled%203.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="2110" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPV8t6Krvl_icF1W4EE3_doWLn9r-QF8s-4Y-V0hh8geFGmXZcfmfYek0cpt_HnvD3h4dyw-zNgspUxMJTNrZm0uY3oGjYV6GnjgtDCJ-ARQNrRqGC_yV_-IbbzKW049TH5rsB2M5Fd1bgmXImu4Jos5nJvlgSNVFXfeAP9jT7Ie-jiy480kGC2Pi6Q/w400-h191/Untitled%203.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finalists Andrea Barrett, Ling Ma, and MorganTalty</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">If you miss the live-stream, you'll still be able to watch the video on our website and on YouTube in the days that follow. You can find videos of past events under the WINNERS menu on our <a href="http://thestoryprize.org" target="_blank">home page</a> or on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+story+prize" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/03/live-stream-story-prize-award-event-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPV8t6Krvl_icF1W4EE3_doWLn9r-QF8s-4Y-V0hh8geFGmXZcfmfYek0cpt_HnvD3h4dyw-zNgspUxMJTNrZm0uY3oGjYV6GnjgtDCJ-ARQNrRqGC_yV_-IbbzKW049TH5rsB2M5Fd1bgmXImu4Jos5nJvlgSNVFXfeAP9jT7Ie-jiy480kGC2Pi6Q/s72-w400-h191-c/Untitled%203.png" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-8439172047082802023</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-02-15T09:49:37.935-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collections by accomplished writers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">long list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other notable collections</category><title>The Story Prize Longlist for Story Collections Published in 2022</title><description><p>In 2022, The Story Prize received 119 books published by 79 publishers or imprints. Every writer who published a short story collection last year accomplished something significant and deserves a lot of credit.&nbsp;</p><p>The Story Prize announces its shortlist of&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-20223-finalists-for-story-prize-are_02097173358.html">three finalists</a>&nbsp;first—as we did a few weeks ago—then releases its longlist later. The three finalists,&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/02/gods-children-are-little-broken-things.html" target="_blank">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>&nbsp;winner, and the longlist combine to highlight twenty books. Here's the list:</p><p><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781476713106">How Strange a Season</a></i><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781476713106"> </a>by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Scribner)<br /></span><i>•&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781646220878" target="_blank">Seeking Fortune Elsewhere</a> </i>by Sindya Bhanoo (Catapult)<br /><i>•&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781952177033" target="_blank">Pretend It's My Body</a></i> by Luke Dani Blue (The Feminist Press)<br /><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781949467864" target="_blank">Tomorrow in Shanghai</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by May-Lee Chai (Blair)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781646221011" target="_blank">Rainbow Rainbow</a> </i><span>by Lydia Conklin (Catapult)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780374605988" target="_blank">If I Survive You</a></i></span><span><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780374605988" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"> </a>by Jonathan Escoffery (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781982145811" target="_blank">Stories From the Tenants Downstairs</a> </i>by Sidik Fofana (Scribner)<br /><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780593242971" target="_blank">The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Omer Friedlander (Random House)<br /></span><i><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781632061188" target="_blank">A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Meron Hadero (Restless Books)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780593296042" target="_blank">Fiona and Jane</a></i> by Jean Chen Ho (Viking)<br /><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781609388294" target="_blank">Antipodes</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Holly Goddard Jones (University of Iowa Press)<br /></span><i><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780593297193" target="_blank">The Haunting of Hajji Hotak</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Jamil Jan Kochai (Viking)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781636140315" target="_blank">The Partition</a></i> by Don Lee (Akashic Press)<br /><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9780374606077" target="_blank">Two Nurses Smoking</a> </i><span>by David Means (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781644452066" target="_blank">The Consequences</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Manuel Muñoz (Graywolf Press)<br /></span><i style="text-align: center;">•&nbsp;</i><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12843/9781982180300" target="_blank">Nobody Gets Out Alive</a></i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>by Leigh Newman (Scribner)</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="text-align: center;"><i><div style="text-align: left;"></div></i></span></blockquote><span style="text-align: center;"></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovYWwTsxRmjTYD_3WQzuOAO4sk3Hf7TFYmyfs4JKUUOUpFSsYWpzULsglv6t3EQU39aqy-aOpJoU-2yaiHIVlhDhn2pCeZ-xa2FCBdGm2rNz0S-QVSaL01hDcQogabZwdB-0-IdUlywoKwuFx1XM9WHCQCcBvl2smf5sqf8zmA59qpzVHjxWSQcfx_A/s3853/IMG_1539.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2459" data-original-width="3853" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovYWwTsxRmjTYD_3WQzuOAO4sk3Hf7TFYmyfs4JKUUOUpFSsYWpzULsglv6t3EQU39aqy-aOpJoU-2yaiHIVlhDhn2pCeZ-xa2FCBdGm2rNz0S-QVSaL01hDcQogabZwdB-0-IdUlywoKwuFx1XM9WHCQCcBvl2smf5sqf8zmA59qpzVHjxWSQcfx_A/w400-h255/IMG_1539.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>We've put together a&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/the-story-prize-2022-collections-received" target="_blank">Bookshop list</a>&nbsp;of story collections that we received in 2022, many of them worth reading, even beyond this list. We'll announce the 19th winner of The Story Prize on March 15 at a private event featuring readings by and interviews with the&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-20223-finalists-for-story-prize-are_02097173358.html" target="_blank">three finalists</a>—Andrea Barrett, Ling Ma, and Morgan Talty. Before then, we'll provide links to watch the program live or online in the days that follow.</p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-story-prize-longlist-for-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovYWwTsxRmjTYD_3WQzuOAO4sk3Hf7TFYmyfs4JKUUOUpFSsYWpzULsglv6t3EQU39aqy-aOpJoU-2yaiHIVlhDhn2pCeZ-xa2FCBdGm2rNz0S-QVSaL01hDcQogabZwdB-0-IdUlywoKwuFx1XM9WHCQCcBvl2smf5sqf8zmA59qpzVHjxWSQcfx_A/s72-w400-h255-c/IMG_1539.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515825398724239970.post-6003808401283163619</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-02-08T15:32:12.491-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2022 short story collections</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">A Public Space Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arinze Ifeakandu</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</category><title>God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu Wins The Story Prize Spotlight Award</title><description><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoDZbOf1WLFnUuBJ-1twCQKRFRmCqe_7VwIhvoaukTIgVruYyJClZv_520HgMTXecr98cmwBjnyNkoBXsixOQpql4OsDopXiR-E7m6h7AGKsg145SofHk4sikv_3T9I0DCVeNIz6qQ3D5UMNpxqqxMSvMyWEFZf0_k4C19qeD3mgQ4CZoKbiWk7u68w/s1648/02_God's%20Children%20Are%20Little%20Broken%20Things_FC.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="1133" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoDZbOf1WLFnUuBJ-1twCQKRFRmCqe_7VwIhvoaukTIgVruYyJClZv_520HgMTXecr98cmwBjnyNkoBXsixOQpql4OsDopXiR-E7m6h7AGKsg145SofHk4sikv_3T9I0DCVeNIz6qQ3D5UMNpxqqxMSvMyWEFZf0_k4C19qeD3mgQ4CZoKbiWk7u68w/s320/02_God's%20Children%20Are%20Little%20Broken%20Things_FC.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Beyond naming three finalists each year, we also present&nbsp;</span><a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20Spotlight%20Award" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;to a collection of exceptional merit. Selected books can be promising works by first-time authors, collections in alternative formats, or works that demonstrate an unusual perspective on the writer's craft. The award includes a prize of $1,000.&nbsp;</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We're pleased to announce that the winner for books published in 2022 is </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-s-children-are-little-broken-things-arinze-ifeakandu/17780909?aid=12843&amp;ean=9781734590715&amp;listref=the-story-prize-2022-collections-received&amp;page=2" target="_blank">God's Little Children Are Little Broken Things</a></i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;by Arinze Ifeakandu, published by </span><a href="https://apublicspace.org/books" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">A Public Space Books</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">. These nine&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #444444;">evocative and immersive </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">stories</span><span style="color: #444444;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #444444;">explore queer lives and loves amid an atmosphere of cultural intolerance.&nbsp;</span></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;">A Kirkus Prize finalist, Arinze Ifeakandu is the author of the debut short story collection,&nbsp;</span><i style="border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;">God's Children Are Little Broken Things<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></i><span style="border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;">(A Public Space Books)</span><span style="border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;">, now</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is a </span><span style="border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;">graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently lives in Nigeria.</span></span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndweBk_WUlW1Wf9d54JcIp1xDtbYSr2I-Y21CA3A5lIvfL9tdRa2W7Xq4pDbu5CoewKM8UnmhtHtSRPHiz9L7whLewU79Xahme6LpkheO98sj8TAxXeFtxbrtLtOcnU5Q5_tPVHpPn-HA6MO6Tv8wq8tfj-0d5OeK6tTfn59bfuMDUqu9LH3qWqVVPQ/s6720/03_Arinze%20Ifeakandu_credit%20Bec%20Stupak%20Diop.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6720" data-original-width="4480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndweBk_WUlW1Wf9d54JcIp1xDtbYSr2I-Y21CA3A5lIvfL9tdRa2W7Xq4pDbu5CoewKM8UnmhtHtSRPHiz9L7whLewU79Xahme6LpkheO98sj8TAxXeFtxbrtLtOcnU5Q5_tPVHpPn-HA6MO6Tv8wq8tfj-0d5OeK6tTfn59bfuMDUqu9LH3qWqVVPQ/s320/03_Arinze%20Ifeakandu_credit%20Bec%20Stupak%20Diop.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>This is the 11th time we've given out The Story Prize Spotlight Award. The nine previous winners were:&nbsp;<i>Drifting House</i>&nbsp;by Krys Lee,&nbsp;<i>Byzantium&nbsp;</i>by Ben Stroud,&nbsp;<i>Praying Drunk&nbsp;</i>by Kyle Minor,&nbsp;<i>Killing and Dying</i>&nbsp;by Adrian Tomine,&nbsp;<i>Him, Me, Muhammad Ali&nbsp;</i>by Randa Jarrar,&nbsp;<i>Subcortical</i>&nbsp;by Lee Conell,&nbsp;<i>Half Gods&nbsp;</i>by Akil Kumarasamy,&nbsp;<i>The Trojan War Museum</i>&nbsp;by Ayşe Papatya Bucak, <i>Inheritors</i>&nbsp;by Asako Serizawaand, most recently, <i>Born Into This</i> by Adam Thompson.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can find links to all eleven books, including Ifeakandu's, on Bookshop, in the list&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/winners-of-the-story-prize-spotlight-award" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Winners of The Story Prize Spotlight Award</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We'll announce the winner of The Story Prize on March 15 at a private event, which we'll live stream, featuring readings by and interviews with&nbsp;<a href="https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-20223-finalists-for-story-prize-are_02097173358.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the three finalists</a>:&nbsp;<i>Natural History</i>&nbsp;by Andrea Barrett,&nbsp;<i>Bliss Montage&nbsp;</i>by Ling Ma, and&nbsp;<i>Night of the Living Rez&nbsp;</i>by Morgan Talty. And soon we'll post a long list of short story collections published in 2022.</span></p></description><link>http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/02/gods-children-are-little-broken-things.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (The Story Prize)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoDZbOf1WLFnUuBJ-1twCQKRFRmCqe_7VwIhvoaukTIgVruYyJClZv_520HgMTXecr98cmwBjnyNkoBXsixOQpql4OsDopXiR-E7m6h7AGKsg145SofHk4sikv_3T9I0DCVeNIz6qQ3D5UMNpxqqxMSvMyWEFZf0_k4C19qeD3mgQ4CZoKbiWk7u68w/s72-c/02_God's%20Children%20Are%20Little%20Broken%20Things_FC.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item></channel></rss>

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