{"title":"Pen America Ser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2021-book-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-9781646220793","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2021","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe annual--and essential--collection of the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen answers to these questions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. They are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature's newest voices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504069353745,"sku":"GOR013572442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737568026897,"sku":"NGR9781646220793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50397951394065,"sku":"CIN164622079XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52819772539153,"sku":"CIN164622079XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/164622079X.jpg?v=1750721507"},{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2022-book-yuka-igarashi-9781646221639","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2022","description":"Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen 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. They are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form: Deesha Philyaw, Emily Nemens, and Sabrina Orah Mark. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature's newest voices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742302052625,"sku":"NGR9781646221639","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50272847102225,"sku":"CIN164622163XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50304707985681,"sku":"CIN164622163XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50388139409681,"sku":"CIN164622163XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51504152051985,"sku":"NIN9781646221639","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/164622163X.jpg?v=1750992872"},{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2023-book-sarah-lyn-rogers-9781646222018","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2023","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Selected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest Debut Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 we can ever know other people: partners reconsidering each other on the brink of divorce, an imaginary roommate. They remind us that some questions have no perfect answer: Why pretend not to understand someone in need? What can anyone do with anxieties over becoming a parent?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This year's stories were selected by judges Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz, innovators of the short story form. Each story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about what's exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745182720273,"sku":"NGR9781646222018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007047864593,"sku":"CIN1646222016G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51043883090193,"sku":"NIN9781646222018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51072557416721,"sku":"GOR014169621","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52393123479825,"sku":"CIN1646222016VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1646222016.jpg?v=1750960199"},{"product_id":"pen-america-best-debut-short-stories-2019-book-yuka-igarashi-9781948226349","title":"PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Prominent issues of social justice and cultural strife are woven thematically throughout 12 stories. Stories of prison reform, the immigrant experience, and the aftermath of sexual assault make the book a vivid time capsule that will guide readers back into the ethos of 2019 for generations to come . . . Each story displays a mastery of the form, sure to inspire readers to seek out further writing from these adept authors and publications.\"-\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 who meet at a survivors group for female college students; between an English teacher and his student-turned-lover in Japan; between a mother and her young son.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In these pages, a woodcutter who loses his way home meets a man wearing a taxidermied wolf mask, and an Ivy League-educated \"good black girl\" climbs the flagpole in front of the capitol building in South Carolina. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature's newest voices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396463431953,"sku":"CIN1948226340G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058498994449,"sku":"NIN9781948226349","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51430468682001,"sku":"GOR013418126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52617810837777,"sku":"NLS9781948226349","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53124548002065,"sku":"GOR014756985","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53351547928849,"sku":"CIN1948226340A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53371015332113,"sku":"CIN1948226340VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1948226340.jpg?v=1750932327"},{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2025-book-lydi-conklin-9781646223152","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2025","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these eight stories are the 2025 winners of the PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about what's exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51869627351313,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51869627482385,"sku":"NGR9781646223152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52782805451025,"sku":"NIN9781646223152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52962198323473,"sku":"CIN1646223152G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53403377991953,"sku":"CIN1646223152VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53548097470737,"sku":"GOR014957643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781646223152.jpg?v=1754088225"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/pen-america-ser-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}