Short Story Collection Prize Short- and Longlist Honorees

It’s been a terrifically fierce competition with such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees for this year's Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize.

short story collection prize Shortlist

Ed Falco -- American Dreamers

G.G. Silverman -- The Blood Year Daughter: Stories

Alyce Miller -- Death by Vending Machines

Brooke Turner -- The Gods of Women and Their Mothers: STories

Kim Magowan -- The Problem Is

Mary Hannah Terzino -- Secrets and Other Hobbies

Wynne Hungerford -- Sacred Window Exhale

Daniel Abiva Hunt -- The Great Half State

Ted McLoof -- Empty Calories and Male Curiosity

short story collection prize Longlist

Benjamin Parzybak -- They Had Made a Sort of Peace. Hadn't They?

Perry Glasser -- Ballsy

Dennis McFadden -- Goodness and Mercy and Other Mysteries

Richard Krespi -- Shigeru's Shadows and Other Hauntings

Katrina Denza -- Burner and Other Stories

Christine Losek -- The Dangerous Lives of Girls and Other Stories

George Rabasa -- In the Exile Zone

Sam Ruddick -- How We Deal with the Dead

Jessica Hollander -- Take Me Somewhere New

Tracy  Winn -- River in the House

Ashlee Crews -- Church Time

Barbara Croft -- Drowning in Lake Michigan

Gage Saylor -- When They Really Got to Know You, They Will Run

Jason Brown -- Outer Mark

Trudy Lewis -- Juniper 3

Matthew Pitt -- Unusual Poisons

David Crouse -- The Sleeping Mother and Other Stories

Tom Howard -- Invisibilia

Jody Lisberger -- Hand Me Up, Hand Me Down

Alyson Mosquera Dutople -- Marvelous Freaks of Nature!

Ellen Rhudy -- Escape Velocity

Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz -- Have Mercy