The 2019 year of Short Story Collections will start off well with at least ten collections being published and to be looked forward to:
Hugo dos Santos - Then, There from Spuyten Devil. His first collection of stories. Santos is a
Luso-American writer who has previously translated a collection of poems. The collection has blurbs from Katherine Vaz, and Paul Lisicky among others.
Rob Hart - Take-Out and Other Tales of Culinary Cuisine from Polis Books. Hart is the author of four Alex McKenna novels and a zombie novella. He's the associate publisher at Mysterious Press.
Kat Howard - A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories from Saga Press. Howard is the author of
the acclaimed Roses and Rot and has been acclaimed as a "remarkable writer" by non other than Neil Gaiman. Some of these short stories have been nominated for World Fantasy Awards.
Marina Mularz - Welcome to Freedom Point from New American Press. Mularz named a finalist for the Samantha Bee Full Frontal Mentorship Program, Marina also received the 2015 Nonesuch National Humor Writing Prize and was shortlisted by George Saunders for Matrix Magazine's LitPOP Award. More importantly, GINA FRANGELLO selected this as the winner of the New American Press Fiction Prize.
Chris Power - Mothers from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. Published in the UK, this book has
received great pre-publication reviews on this side of the ocean as well.
Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This: "Cat Power" and Other Stories from Gallery/Scout Press. To be honest, we didn't get the buzz that the "Cat Power" story published in The New Yorker received. This in mind, it's not the first of these ten that we'll be looking for.
Sam Savage - An Orphanage of Dreams from Coffee House Press. Savage's sixth and
final title. Those that remember fondly the seventy-some year old finding a debut home at CHP with Firmin will be excited to see this one come out.
Samantha Schweblin - Mouthful of Birds: Stories from Riverhead. Granta named Schweblin one of the 22 Best Spanish Writers Under 35. This is her second Riverhead title, but one of three collections of stories she's published in her native language. Translated by Megan McDowell.
Constance Squires - Hit Your Bright Spots: Stories from the University of Oklahoma Press. Squires has also published a well-received novel. This collection is blurbed by Rilla Askew,
Thomas Fox Averill, and Brandon Hobson, among others.
Darian Suarez - A Kind of Solitude: Stories by Willow Springs Press. Winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Both Laura van den Berg and Ha Jin have give excellent advanced praise to this one. Kenyon Review also lists it as recommended reading.
EDIT - missed one - The Classroom by Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich from Gold Wake Press. We loved the two collections from Diehl and the collection from Goodrich so can only assume we'll like this one as well! Looking forward to it.
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