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THE ESSENTIAL ANNUAL GUIDE TO THE NEWEST VOICES IN SHORT FICTION
Selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado
Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book offers a dozen compelling answers to these questions.
The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary magazines in the previous year. Chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form, they take us from the hutongs of Beijing to the highways of Saskatchewan, from the letters of a poet devoted to God in seventeenth-century France to a chorus of poets devoted to revolution in the "last days of empire." They describe consuming, joyful, tragic, complex, ever-changing relationships between four friends...
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