{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-isbn-9781646223657","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2026","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature, selected by Juliet Escoria, Abby Geni, and Chris Stuck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest Debut Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2026 winners of the PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines. | Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection You Are the Snake (Soft Skull Press, 2024) and the novel \u003ci\u003eJuliet the Maniac\u003c\/i\u003e (Melville House, 2019). Her writing can be found in \u003ci\u003ePrelude, VICE, The Fader, BOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been translated into many languages. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia, where she teaches English at a community college.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands, The Lightkeepers, and Children of the Wolf—as well as the short story collections The Last Animal and The Body Farm. Her books have been translated into seven languages and have won the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Award and the Chicago Review of Books Awards, among other honors. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Best American Mystery and Suspense, The Missouri Review, Epoch, Ninth Letter, and New Stories from the Midwest.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Stuck is the author of \u003ci\u003eGive My Love to the Savages: Stories (\u003c\/i\u003eAmistad\/HarperCollins, 2021). He earned an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University, and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Callaloo Writers Workshop, and the Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. He is a Pushcart Prize winner, and his work has been published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review, Bennington Review, Cagibi, Callaloo, Meridian, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNatural Bridge.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759437787365,"sku":"NP9781646223657","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781646223657.jpg?v=1775598549","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/best-debut-short-stories-isbn-9781646223657","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}