Best debut short stories 2022 : the PEN America Dau Prize

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Title:

Best debut short stories 2022 : the PEN America Dau Prize

Author:

Igarashi, Yuka, editor, writer of introduction.

ISBN:

9781646221639

Edition:

First Catapult edition

Physical Description:

xxi, 216 pages ; 21 cm.

Abstract:

"The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Deesha Philyaw, Emily Nemens, and Sabrina Orah Mark This anthology celebrates the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding fiction debuts in literary magazines. This year's selections were made by Sabrina Orah Mark, Emily Nemens, and Deesha Philyaw. The stories in Best Debut Short Stories 2022 explore the dangers and possibilities of protest in Multan, Pakistan, in 1978; in the well-to-do neighborhoods of Melbourne, Australia, at the end of the millennium; and in the outskirts of Ramallah, Palestine, in the present day. They describe toxic homes and precarious lives and refuge sought in unlikely places: a bowling alley, a work affair, a noisy club, a neoclassical sanatorium, a school-turned-hostel near a flooded brownfield. They feature a pork bun made with a perfect spiral of dough, a bucket of eggs swarmed by crows, a drink made of chilled chicken blood and rose water, and a pale pink worm with five hearts who lives at the edge of the universe. Each story is accompanied by a letter from the editor who first published it, providing insight about what's new and exciting in fiction today and recognizing the vital work of literary journals in nurturing new voices in literature."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Introduction / Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers -- Sacrilege / Edward Salem -- The black kite and the wind / Erin Connal -- A wedding in multan / Yasmin Adele Majeed -- For future reference: notes on the 7-10 split / Patch Kirschenbaum -- All we have left is ourselves / Oyedotun Damilola Muees -- Writing with blood / Catherine Bai -- Them Bones / CK Kane -- Man, man, et cetera / Cal Shook -- Work Wives / Preeti Vangani -- The chicken / RZ Baschir -- The cacophobe / Seth Wang -- Beat by beat / Emma Shannon -- About the judges -- About the PEN / Robert J. Dau Short story prize for emerging writers -- List of participating publications -- Permissions.

Subject Term:

Short stories, American -- 21st century.

Added Author:

Igarashi, Yuka,

Rogers, Sarah Lyn,

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The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Deesha Philyaw, Emily Nemens, and Sabrina Orah Mark

This anthology celebrates the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding fiction debuts in literary magazines. This year's selections were made by Sabrina Orah Mark, Emily Nemens, and Deesha Philyaw.

The stories in Best Debut Short Stories 2022 explore the dangers and possibilities of protest in Multan, Pakistan, in 1978; in the well-to-do neighborhoods of Melbourne, Australia, at the end of the millennium; and in the outskirts of Ramallah, Palestine, in the present day. They describe toxic homes and precarious lives and refuge sought in unlikely places- a bowling alley, a work affair, a noisy club, a neoclassical sanatorium, a school-turned-hostel near a flooded brownfield. They feature a pork bun made with a perfect spiral of dough, a bucket of eggs swarmed by crows, a drink made of chilled chicken blood and rose water, and a pale pink worm with five hearts who lives at the edge of the universe.

Each story is accompanied by a letter from the editor who first published it, providing insight about what's new and exciting in fiction today and recognizing the vital work of literary journals in nurturing new voices in literature.