The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction
Every year, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories celebrates twelve outstanding stories by todays most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. Selections for the third volume of the anthology will be made by three judges, Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado. Each story comes with commentary by the editors who first published it, explaining what made them pick it out of the submission pile and why they were moved to share it with readers.
