| PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 Contributor(s): Igarashi, Yuka (Editor), Bertino, Marie-Helene (Selected by), Link, Kelly (Selected by) |
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ISBN: 1936787687 ISBN-13: 9781936787685 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813.010 |
| Series: Pen America Best Debut Short Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: THE INAUGURAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE'S MOST PROMISING NEW VOICES A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals, promising good work to come. --Kirkus Reviews Many writers who are household names today got their start when an editor encountered their work for the first time and took a chance. This book celebrates twelve such moments of discovery. The first volume of an annual anthology, launched alongside PEN's new Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, it recognizes writers who have had outstanding fiction debuts in a print or online literary magazine. The winning stories collected here--selected this year by judges Marie-Helene Bertino, Kelly Link, and Nina McConigley--take place in South Carolina and in South Korea, on a farm in the eighteenth century and among the cubicles of a computer- engineering firm in the present day. They narrate age-old themes with current urgency: migration, memory, technology, language, love, ecology, identity, family. Each work comes with an introduction by the editor who originally published it, explaining why he or she chose it. The commentaries provide insight into a process that often remains opaque to readers and students of writing, and showcase the vital work literary magazines do to nurture contemporary literature's new voices. |
Contributor Bio(s): Link, Kelly: - Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble, which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She and her husband Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.Bertino, Marie-Helene: - Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas and the story collection Safe as Houses. Her awards include the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. She is an Editor-at-Large for Catapult magazine.McConigley, Nina: - Nina McConigley is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won a 2014 PEN Open Book Award. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow. She also holds an MA in English from the University of Wyoming and a BA in Literature from Saint Olaf College. She currently serves on the board of the Wyoming Arts Council. She is at work on a novel and teaches at the University of Wyoming. |