{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2025-the-pen-america-dau-prize-paperback","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The Pen America Dau Prize - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKendall Storey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Pankova\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these eight stories are the 2025 winners of the PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about what's exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLYDI CONKLIN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eRainbow Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, which was long-listed for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Their fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. They've drawn comics for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLenny Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003ci\u003e Songs of No Provenance \u003c\/i\u003eis their first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDIONNE IRVING \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eQuint\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Islands\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eStory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Delta Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals and magazines. Irving teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRENDA PEYNADO\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eThe Rock Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories have won an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Nelson Algren Literary Award, selection for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, a Dana Award, and a Fulbright grant to the Dominican Republic. Her fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Prairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, and more than forty other journals.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.21 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379475673190,"sku":"9781646223152","price":24.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/6s3kAHEtTr9781646223152.webp?v=1768921339","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/best-debut-short-stories-2025-the-pen-america-dau-prize-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}