We are excited to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers! These fifteen selections are now with Kristen Arnett who will select the finalists, and we anxiously await her decision. Thank you to all of our submitters, and congratulations to our fifteen shortlisted writers!
Easter Morning by Caleb Berer
Night Stencils by Sherine Elbanhawy
Degenerate Matter by Jen Galvao
The Summer House by Merel Gerretsen
Ships in the Night by Neta Harris
The Treasure Room by Cristina Hartmann
Certainty by Pauline Holdsworth
Wish You Were Here by Carlee Jensen
The Professor by Amelia Kreminski
Don’t Move by C.M. Linley
When I Speak by Saras Manickam
Idolize by Daniel Perlstein
Bendiciones by A.J. Rodriguez
All This is Yours to Lose by Marcus Tan
Foxhunt by Kate Velguth