Year-End Lists

The Story Prize: 2017

Winner

• Anything Is Possible
  Elizabeth Strout

Finalists

• The King Is Always Above the People
  Daniel Alarcón
• Homesick for Another World
  Ottessa Moshfegh

Longlist (alphabetical by author)

• What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
  Lesley Nneka Arimah
• Large Animals
  Jess Arndt
• The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead

  Stories
  Chanelle Benz
• Difficult Women
  Roxane Gay
• I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like

  New and Selected Stories
  Noy Holland
• The Dark Dark

  Stories
  Samantha Hunt
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Five-Carat Soul
  James McBride
• The Refugees
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Tower of the Antilles
  Achy Obejas
• The Girl of the Lake

  Stories
  Bill Roorbach
• A Life of Adventure and Delight

  Stories
  Akhil Sharma
• Kiss Me Someone

  Stories
  Karen Shepard
• Wait Till You See Me Dance
  Deb Olin Unferth
• The Mountain

  Stories
  Paul Yoon
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang

Also Notable

• Living in the Weather of the World

  Stories
  Richard Bausch
• The Relive Box and Other Stories
  T.C. Boyle
• Signals

  New and Selected Stories
  Tim Gautreaux
• Bad Dreams and Other Stories
  Tessa Hadley
• Dis Mem Ber

  And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
  Joyce Carol Oates
• The World to Come

  Stories
  Jim Shepard

Spotlight Award

• Subcortical

  Stories
  Lee Conell