Three Prize-Winning Short Story Collections of 2019

By Colette Sartor, Kate Wisel, Ashley Wurzbacher

Based on some similarities between the books and the characters’ concerns, it’s tempting to draw...

$Various

Shimmer

By Mark Irwin

The speaker mourns his mother while she lives and after she dies; he writes about...

$22.00

My Mountain Country

By Ye Lijun, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

The gorgeous cover strikes the first note of the theme: a traditional mountain landscape with...

$16.00

Late Along the Edgelands

By Eric Falci

Ever, the body risked is one dissolving, while the body through which the reader sees...

$17.95

& more black

By t'ai freedom ford

These poems take on the historical and current oppression of Black Americans, particularly Black women—including...

$18.00

The Gone Dead

By Chanelle Benz

Even with the harsh realities presented in the novel, there is a love of place...

$26.99

Bloomland

By John Engelhardt

Meanwhile, Englehardt expertly traces Eli’s path from the little boy who can’t cope with his...

$26.95

Republic Café

By David Biespiel

Biespiel grapples with global crisis through the lens of the individual—specifically the relationship between two...

$19.95

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By Margaret Renkl

The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...

$24.00

Earth Is Best

By Peter O'Leary

O’Leary so brilliantly makes language itself a rhizomatic experience, a syntactical force that allows the...

$20.00

At the Gate of All Wonder

By Kevin McIlvoy

The story itself belongs to narrator Samantha Peabody. Samantha Peabody, as she sometimes refers to...

$17.95

Lonesome Gnosis

By Elizabeth Scanlon

Scanlon’s poems operate at the moment of enjambment between the last two lines above, the...

$9.00

Fear Of Description

By Daniel Poppick

Daniel Poppick’s second collection, Fear of Description, features a collection of sonnets, elegies, and autobiographical...

$14.13

A Forgotten Evil

By Sheldon Russell

Russell convincingly conveys the gory conflicts, the injustice felt by Native Americans and their acts...

$17.00

Quantum Convention

By Eric Schlich

Not only does Schlich have fun with content, but he also beguiles the reader with...

$14.95

Silences

By Martha Ronk

It presents a tension as well for the reader: if silence is total absence, an...

$17.95

The Unnamable Present

By Robert Calasso

Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...

$26.00

A Little More Red Sun on the Human

By Gillian Conoley

The collection begins with dramatic monologues and portraits, cinematic and enigmatic, that are more traditionally...

$19.95

Erou

By Maya Phillips

The mythological narrative works as a framework here because of its inherent mystery—the kind of...

$15.95

Beautyberry

By Cassie Donish

The concept of a theory becomes a rich, generative shape with its own kind of...

$14.95

The Year of the Femme

By Cassie Donish

Interiors and the fullness thereof feel at the heart of this book, a gorgeous kind...

$19.95

Time for Bed: Stories

By Wendy Rawlings

In a world where buildings are attacked and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere, it...

$24.95

When I Can’t Sleep

By Robert Garner McBrearty

Acutely amusing, cleverly twisted, thoughtful, and tender, When I Can’t Sleep is a formidable collection...

$15.00

Fossils in the Making

By Kristin George Bagdanov

Strong images from the botanical, geological, mammalian, and environmental worlds sensuously create lines of emotional...

$14.95