 First edition | |
| Editor | Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780547868868 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 2017 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 2019 |
The Best American Short Stories 2018, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Roxane Gay. [1]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Anderson | "Cougar" | The Iowa Review |
| Jamel Brinkley | "A Family" | Gulf Coast |
| Yoon Choi | "The Art of Losing" | New England Review |
| Emma Cline | "Los Angeles" | Granta |
| Alicia Elliott | "Unearth" | Grain |
| Danielle Evans | "Boys Go to Jupiter" | The Sewanee Review |
| Carolyn Ferrell | "A History of China" | Ploughshares: Solos Omnibus |
| Ann Glaviano | "Come on, Silver" | Tin House |
| Jacob Guajardo | "What Got Into Us" | Passages North |
| Cristina Henríquez | "Everything Is Far From Here" | The New Yorker |
| Kristen Iskandrian | "Good with Boys" | ZYZZYVA |
| Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | "Control Negro" | Guernica |
| Matthew Lyons | "The Brothers Brujo" | Tough |
| Dina Nayeri | "A Big True" | The Southern Review |
| Téa Obreht | "Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure" | Zoetrope |
| Ron Rash | "The Baptism" | The Southern Review |
| Amy Silverberg | "Suburbia!" | The Southern Review |
| Curtis Sittenfeld | "The Prairie Wife" | The New Yorker |
| Rivers Solomon | "Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver" | Emrys Journal |
| Esmé Weijun Wang | "What Terrible Thing It Was" | Granta |
The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature. Along with the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories is one of the two "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction."
The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.
The Best American Short Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Alice Sebold.
William Malatinsky is an American author and frequent contributor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. His fiction was short-listed for the Best American Short Stories in 2006 and 2010.
The Best American Short Stories 2010, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Richard Russo.
The Best American Short Stories 2011, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Geraldine Brooks.
The Best American Short Stories 2012, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Tom Perotta.
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).
Sharon Solwitz is a fiction writer and professor based in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of the short story collection Blood and Milk and the novels Bloody Mary and Once, in Lourdes. Tom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor selected her story "Alive" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012, and her story "Gifted" was chosen for the 2016 collection. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991, and teaches creative writing at Purdue University.
Esmé Weijun Wang is an American writer. She is the author of The Border of Paradise (2016) and The Collected Schizophrenias (2019). She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and in 2017, Granta Magazine named her to its decennial list of the Best of Young American Novelists.
The Best American Short Stories 2014, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Jennifer Egan.
The Best American Short Stories 2015, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor T. C. Boyle.
The Best American Short Stories 2016, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Junot Díaz.
The Best American Short Stories 2017, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Meg Wolitzer.
The Best American Short Stories 2019 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Doerr.
The Best American Short Stories 2020 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor Curtis Sittenfeld.
The Best American Short Stories 2021 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward.
The Best American Short Stories 2022 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Andrew Sean Greer.
The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and National Book Award finalist, Min Jin Lee.
The Best American Short Stories 2024 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor Lauren Groff.
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