Nafissa Thompson-Spires: I was also impressed by the geographical range of the authors’ backgrounds and stories’ settings. I’m happy to know that the journal is alive and well, thriving, changing, and that new ones are cropping up all the time. There were several I hadn’t heard of, and it was fun to get to know them. We checked in with this year’s judges-Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth-about the selection process, trends in contemporary fiction, their first publications, and rethinking what counts as writing in pandemic times.Ĭatapult: What (if anything) surprised you when reading the stories submitted for the prize?ĭeb Olin Unferth: I was surprised by the selection of journals the entries came from. Winners are selected by a trio of judges known for their work in short fiction, and are published in an annual anthology by Catapult, with an intro by series editor Yuka Igarashi. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for the best debut stories published recently in literary journals. Best Debut Short Stories returns with another lineup of new fiction writers to watch! Each year, PEN America and the Dau Foundation award twelve writers the PEN/Robert J.
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