New Stories from the South 2007

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill has Edward P. Jones guest editing the 2007 edition of New Stories from the South (August 2007) and some EWN members have made the cut:

Holly Goddard Jones, Jason Ockert, and R.T. Smith.  A note from Jones' introduction and the rest of the authors/stories/journals they're from after the jump:

(Whoops - it appears the original list I was sent was not quite correct, the Kevin Moffett story, Tattooizm, from his award winning collection, Permanent Visitors, had to be removed as it was published in 2005 - sorry for the confusion)

“When asked if I would choose the stories for 2007, the busy me initially said no, but the other me remembered that no other annual anthology but New Stories from the South reprinted my story from The Paris Review. The story was about a fairly uneducated old woman who, even after many decades of life in a city, still could not forget the Southern values of right and wrong she had inherited as a child. I am here now because
it meant something to have that story anthologized.”

—EDWARD P. JONES, from the Introduction

Edward P. Jones has selected the following stories for New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2007, to be published by Algonquin Books on August 14.

Rick Bass, GOATS
From The Idaho Review

James Lee Burke, A SEASON OF REGRET
From Shenandoah

Moira Crone, THE ICE GARDEN
From TriQuarterly

Joshua Ferris, GHOST TOWN CHOIR
From Prairie Schooner

Tim Gautreaux, THE SAFE
From The Atlantic Monthly

Allan Gurganus, FOURTEEN FEET OF WATER IN MY HOUSE
From Harper’s

Cary Holladay, HOLLYHOCKS
From Five Points

Toni Jensen, AT THE POWWOW HOTEL
From Nimrod

Holly Goddard Jones, LIFE EXPECTANCY
From The Kenyon Review

Agustin Maes, BEAUTY AND VIRTUE
From Ontario Review

Stephen Marion, DOGS WITH HUMAN FACES
From Epoch

Philipp Meyer, ONE DAY THIS WILL ALL BE YOURS
From McSweeney’s

Jason Ockert, JAKOB LOOMIS
From The Oxford American

George Singleton, WHICH ROCKS WE CHOOSE
From The Georgia Review

R.T. Smith, STORY
From Prairie Schooner

Angela Threatt, BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD
From Gargoyle

Daniel Wallace, A TERRIBLE THING
From The Georgia Review

Stephanie Powell Watts, UNASSIGNED TERRITORY
From The Oxford American