Best Debut Short Stories 2023
Sarah Lyn Rogers
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature
Selected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz
Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes each writer’s outstanding debut in a literary magazine.
The stories in this anthology encompass fraught family gatherings, death, inheritance, reproduction and birth, translation, secrets, and betrayals. They show us what we would rather not face: a grandmother’s repeated resurrection, the loss of a child, a family’s excuses for a predator. They direct our attention away from fluorescence and to the natural world: iguanas climbing into beds, a reflection in an orange, sweat like rain drops, gossamer petals, a child named Ant. They question how well...
Selected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz
Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes each writer’s outstanding debut in a literary magazine.
The stories in this anthology encompass fraught family gatherings, death, inheritance, reproduction and birth, translation, secrets, and betrayals. They show us what we would rather not face: a grandmother’s repeated resurrection, the loss of a child, a family’s excuses for a predator. They direct our attention away from fluorescence and to the natural world: iguanas climbing into beds, a reflection in an orange, sweat like rain drops, gossamer petals, a child named Ant. They question how well...
年:
2023
出版社:
Catapult
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
1646222016
ISBN 13:
9781646222018
ISBN:
8df41f36-8bdc-4a02-b3c4-9d5a0b7f6c01
文件:
AZW3 , 2.36 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2023