| Author | Title | First published |
|---|
| Leslie Blanco | "A Ravishing Sun" | New Letters (Vol.87, No. 1-2) |
| Yohanca Delgado | "The Little Widow from the Capital" | The Paris Review (No. 236) |
| Kim Coleman Foote | "Man of the House" | Ecotone (Vol.16, no. 2) |
| Lauren Groff | "The Wind" | The New Yorker (January 25, 2021) |
| Greg Jackson | "The Hollow" | The New Yorker (November 22, 2021) |
| Gish Jen | "Detective Dog" | The New Yorker (November 15, 2021) |
| Claire Luchette | "Sugar Island" | Ploughshares (Spring 2021) |
| Elizabeth McCracken | "The Souvenir Museum" | Harper's Magazine (January 2021) |
| Alice McDermott | "Post" | One Story (Issue 280, August 26, 2021) |
| Kevin Moffett | "Bears Among the Living" | McSweeney's (Issue 63) |
| Gina Ochsner | "Soon the Light" | Ploughshares (Winter 2020–21) |
| Okwiri Oduor | "Mbiu Dash" | Granta (Issue 156, July 29, 2021) |
| Alix Ohlin | "The Meeting" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2021) |
| Kenan Orhan | "The Beyoğlu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra" | The Paris Review (Issue 237, Summer 2021) |
| Karen Russell | "The Ghost Birds" | The New Yorker (October 4, 2021) |
| Sanjena Sathian | "Mr. Ashok's Monument" | Conjunctions (Issue 76, Spring 2021) |
| Erin Somers | "Ten Year Affair" | Joyland (February 1, 2021) |
| Héctor Tobar | "The Sins of Others" | Zyzzyva (Issue 120) |
| Louise Wagner | "Elephant Seals" | AGNI (Issue 93, April 15, 2021) |
| Bryan Washington | "Foster" | The New Yorker (June 7, 2021) |