Thinking a lot about short story collections this last week and took some time to scour lists and publisher websites and that behemoth with a truly lousy sort mechanism and have put together the following list of 114 collections published, or to be published still, during the calendar year of 2016. I am fairly certain that there should be other titles on this list that I've yet to track down. I'll do my best to update as I do hear about others.
9/20/16 UPDATE -- We're up to 133 short story collections for 2016.
9/21/16 UPDATE -- We're up to 137 short story collections for 2016.
| Author | Publisher | Title |
| Akers, Mary | Press 53 | Bones of an Inland Island |
| Albin, C.D. | Press 53 | Hard Toward Home |
| Allingham, Sam | A Strange Object | The Great American Songbook |
| Allio, Kirstin | Dzanc Books | Clothed, Female Figure |
| Anderson, Kathy | Autumn Press | Bull |
| Appel, Jacob | BLP | Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana |
| Appel, Jacob | Howling Bird | The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street |
| Barrodale, Amie | FSG | You Are Having a Good Time |
| Bass, Rick | Little Brown | For a Little While |
| Baumbach, Jonathan | Dzanc Books | The Pavilion of Former Wives |
| Beach, Jensen | Graywolf | Swallowed by the Cold |
| Beaudoin, Sean | Algonquin | Welcome Thieves |
| Beitelman, T.J. | BLP | Communion |
| Bell, Matt | Soho | A Tree or a Person or a Wall |
| Binchy, Maeve | Knopf | A Few of the Girls |
| Booker, Brian | Bellevue Literary Press | Are You Here for What I'm Here For? |
| Carroll, Tobias | CCM | Transitory |
| Caschetta, MB | Engine Books | Pretend I'm Here |
| Chase, Katie | A Strange Object | Man and Wife |
| Cheney, Matthew | BLP | Blood |
| Cheuk, Leland | Thought Catalog Books | Letters From Dinosaurs |
| Collins, Kathleen | Ecco | Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? |
| Coma-Thompson, Kyle | Dock Street Press | Night in the Sun |
| Cooper, Desiree | WSU Press | Know the Mother |
| Core, Leopoldine | Penguin | When Watched |
| Cotsonas, Thomas | BLP | Normal Cases |
| Coyne, Stephen | New Rivers Press | It Turns Out Like This |
| Dacey, Patrick | Henry Holt | We've Already Gone This Far |
| Deaver, Philip F. | Burrow Press | Forty Martyrs |
| DeWan, Christopher | Atticus Books | Hoopty Time Machines |
| Dixon, Stephen | Curbside Splendor | Late Stories |
| Domini, John | Dzanc Books | Movieola! |
| Doyle, Brian | Red Hen Press | The Mighty Currawongs |
| Drake, Monica | Future Tense Press | The Folly of Loving Life |
| Ellis, Helen | Doubleday | American Housewife |
| Ermelino, Louisa | Sarabande Books | Melifemmena |
| Evenson, Brian | Coffee House | A Collapse of Horses |
| Exell, Laura Hendrix | Moon City Press | A Record of Our Debts |
| Farmer, Daryl | Brighthouse | Where We Land |
| Fearnside, Jeff | Stephen F. Austin University Press | Making Love While Levitating Three Feet Up in the Air |
| Fogarty, Matthew | Stillhouse Press | Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely |
| Gabriel, Daniel | New Rivers Press | Wrestling with Angels |
| Gardam, Jane | Europa | The Stories of Jane Gardam |
| Garstang, Clifford | Press 53 | Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small World, Vol. II |
| George, Jen | Dorothy | The Babysitter at Rest |
| Goodrich, Melissa | Jellyfish Highway Press | Daughters of Monsters |
| Graber, Debbie | Unnamed Press | Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday |
| Graley, Lisa | UGA Press | The Current That Carries |
| Gustine, Amy | Sarabande Books | You Should Pity Us Instead |
| Haddon, Mark | Doubleday | The Pier Falls |
| Hagenston, Becky | University of Alaska | Scavengers |
| Hale, Benjamin | Simon & Schuster | The Fat Artist |
| Hall, Rachel | BkMk | Heirlooms |
| Harper, Jordan | Ecco | Love and Other Wounds |
| Hensley, Julie | Ohio State University Press | Landfall |
| Heyman, Arlene | Bloomsbury | Scary Old Sex |
| Hoffman, Dustin M. | University of Nebraska | One Hundred Knuckle Fist |
| Holman, John | Dzanc Books | Triangle Ray |
| Holmes, Charlotte | BkMk | The Grass Labyrinth |
| Hua, Vanessa | Ballantine | Deceit and Other Possibilities |
| Hyde, Allegra | University of Iowa | Of This New World |
| Jackson, Greg | FSG | Prodigals |
| Jarrar, Randa | Sarabande Books | Him, Me, Muhammad Ali |
| Jodzio, John | Soft Skull | Knockout |
| Johnson, Dana | Counterpoint | In the Not Quite Dark |
| Kaltman, Alice | Tortoise Books | Staggerwing |
| Keene, John | New Directions | Counternarratives |
| Kimball, L.E. | WSU Press | Seasonal Roads |
| Kleeman, Alexandra | Harper | Intimations |
| Krasznahorkai, Laszlo | New Directions | The Last Wolf & Herman |
| Laskowski, Tara | SFWP | Bystanders |
| Lawson, April Ayers | FSG | Virgin |
| Lewinter, Roger | New Directions | Story of Love in Solitude |
| Liddle, Jane | 421 Atlanta | Murder |
| Lindsay, Tony | Prosperity Publications | Acorns in a Skillet |
| Lindsey, Odie | WW Norton | We Come to Our Senses |
| Llewellyn, Livia | Word Horde | Furnace |
| Lopez, Robert | Bellevue Literary Press | Good People |
| Luongo, Margaret | LSU Press | History of Art |
| MacArthur, Robin | Ecco | Half Wild |
| MacDonald, Marylee | Summertime Publications | Bonds of Love & Blood |
| Majka, Sara | Graywolf | Cities I've Never Lived In |
| Major, Clarence | Green Writers Press | Chicago Heat |
| Malone, Margaret | Atelier26 | People Like You |
| McCormick, Chris | Picador | Desert Boys |
| McFadden, Dennis | Press 53 | Jimtown Road |
| McFarlane, Fiona | FSG | The High Places |
| McLaughlin, Danielle | Random House | Dinosaurs on Other Planets |
| Meijer, Maryse | FSG | Heartbreaker |
| Mogelson, Luke | Tim Duggan Books | These Heroic, Happy Dead |
| Monks, Sheryl | Vandalia Press | Monsters in Appalachia |
| Morgan, Dolan | CCM | Insignificana |
| Muslim, Kristine Omg | Unnamed Press | Age of Blight |
| Nagamatsu, Sequoia | BLP | Where We Go When All We Were is Gone |
| Niell, Matthew Null | Sarabande Books | Allegheny Front |
| Nors, Dorene | Graywolf | So Much for that Winter |
| Noyes, Anna | Grove | Goodnight, Beautiful Women |
| Oldshue, Robert | University of Iowa | November Storm |
| Oyeyemi, Helen | Riverhead Books | What is Not Yours is Not Yours |
| Paloni, Jodi | Press 53 | They Could Live with Themselves |
| Parker, Amy | Mariner Books | Beasts and Children |
| Pendarvis, Jack | Dzanc Books | Movie Stars |
| Peralbo, Susan | Simon & Schuster | Why They Run the Way They Do |
| Phillips, Helen | Holt | Some Possible Solutions |
| Raeff, Anne | UGA Press | The Jungle Around Us |
| Ryan, Patrick | Dial Press | The Dream Life of Astronauts |
| Schiff, Rebecca | Knopf | The Bed Moved |
| Schwartz, Steven | Engine Books | Madagascar: New and Selected |
| Scott, Rion Amilcar | University of Kentucky | Insurrections |
| Shivran, Sally | Press 53 | Piranhas & Quicksand & Love |
| Simmons, Matthew | CCM | The In-Betweens |
| Sirisena, Hasanthika | University of Massachusetts Press | The Other One |
| Smith, Ali | Anchor | Public Library |
| Smith, Maureen Millea | Livingston Press | The Enigma of Iris Murphy |
| Sneed, Christine | Bloomsbury | The Virginity of Famous Men |
| Sparks, Amber | Liveright | The Unfinished World |
| Stalcup, Erin | Break Away Books | And Yet it Moves |
| Steinhagen, Jon | BLP | The Big Book of Sound |
| Stone, Laurie | Tri-Quarterly | My Life As An Animal |
| Straub, Peter | Doubleday | Interior Darkness: Selected Stories |
| Tepper, Susan | Pure Slush | dear Petrov |
| Terry, James | University of New Mexico | Kingdom of the Sun |
| Thomas, Richard | Crystal Lake Publishing | Tribulations |
| Tompkins, Matt | Conium Press | Souvenirs |
| Townsend, Johnny | Booklocker.com | The Washing of Brains |
| Velazquez, Carlos | Restless Books | The Cowboy Bible |
| Vestal, Shawn | Penguin | Daredevils |
| Vickers, Zachary Taylor | Break Away Books | Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! |
| Volodine, Antonio | Open Letter Books | Bardo or Not Bardo |
| Weinstein, Alexander | Picador | Children of the World |
| Williams, Diane | McSweeney's | Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine |
| Williams, Joy | Tin House | Ninety-Nine Stories of God |
| Williford, Lex | Rose Metal Press | Superman on the Roof |
| Wineberg, Ronna | Serving House Books | Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life |
| Wink, Callan | Random House | Dog Run Moon |
| Woodard, Angela | Dzanc Books | Origins and Other Stories |
| Yancy, Melissa | University of Pittsburgh | Dog Years |
A wonderfully varied & altogether terrific lineup. Compliments on the work, EWN.
Posted by: John Domini | September 19, 2016 at 07:40 AM