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Bookmark or Share- The Story PrizeThe Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. As runners-up, Li and Sims each received $5,000. The evening began with the showing of a short video featuring highlights from the first 19 years of the award.
- Eligibility - The Story PrizeEligibility for The Story Prize is limited to collections of short fiction (at least two stories and/or novellas) by a living author, written in English. Eligible books must be first publication of the work in the United States during the calendar year, in either hardcover or paperback, and available for purchase by the general public.
- 2022/23 — The Story PrizeThe 11th winner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award is God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (A Public Space Books), a collection of nine evocative and immersive stories that explore queer lives and loves amid an atmosphere of cultural intolerance.
- Home — The Story PrizeYou can find a list of short story collections submitted for The Story Prize in 2022 at Bookshop.org. The Story Prize is a $20,000 book prize awarded to the author of the short story collection named best of the year by three independent judges.
- 2023/24 — The Story PrizeThe Story Prize Spotlight Award: The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu The 12th winner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award is The Goth House Experiment (Soho Press), a collection of six beautifully executed, inventive stories that stands out because its verve and originality.
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