The Story Prize is an annual book award for short story collections, established in 2004. Latest winner: OTHER WORLDS by André Alexis. 2026 deadlines: 7/1 for Jan.-June pubs, 11/15 for July-Dec. thestoryprize.org
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REMINDER:
The deadline for Spring Submissions to The Story Prize is July 1st!
Details here:
thestoryprize.org/eligibility
Announcing the 2026 Story Prize Longlist:
In 2025, The Story Prize received as entries 114 books published by 72 different publishers or imprints. These sixteen books, plus the three finalists and the Spotlight Award winner (Trying to Be by John Haskell), combine to highlight 20 short story collections. Here are the books on our longlist:
Congratulations to the 2014/15 Story Prize Winner, Elizabeth McCracken, for the 2026 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story!
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Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail (A Public Space)
Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski @simonandschuster.bsky.social
The Pelican Child by Joy Williams @aaknopf.bsky.social
The Words of Dr. L. by Karen E. Bender (Counterpoint)
Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Whites By Mark Doten @graywolfpress.bsky.social
A Love Story From the End of the World by Juhea Kim @eccobooks.bsky.social
The 22nd winner of The Story Prize, announced on March 31, is Other Worlds by André Alexis! The runners up were twoother great short story collections: Atavists by Lydia Millet and Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş. (Photos by Nathalie Schueller)
Open Up by Thomas Morris @unnamedpress.bsky.social
Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund (Astra House)
Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters @catapultbooks.bsky.social
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters (Random House)
Save Me Stranger by Erika Krouse @flatironbooks.bsky.social
Guatemalan Rhapsody by Jared Lemus @eccobooks.bsky.social
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin (Soft Skull)
Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore @tinhouse.bsky.social
