Year-End Lists

The Story Prize: 2020

Winner

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
  Deesha Philyaw

Finalists

• Likes
  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans

Longlist

• Alligator and Other Stories
  Dima Alzayat
• Why Visit America

  Stories
  Matthew Baker
• Daddy
  Emma Cline
• Heartland Calamitous
  Michael Credico
• If the Body Allows It

  Stories
  Megan Cummins
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• The Prince of Mournful Thoughts

  And Other Stories
  Caroline Kim
• Animal Spirit
  Francesca Marciano
• Cool for America

  Stories
  Andrew Martin
• Why I Don't Write
  Susan Minot
• The World Doesn't Work That Way, but It Could

  Stories
  Yxta Maya Murray
• Sleepovers
  Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
• Last One Out Shut Off the Lights

  Stories
  Stephanie Soileau
• You Will Never Be Forgotten
  Mary South
• And I Do Not Forgive You
  Amber Sparks
• A House Is a Body

  Stories
  Shruti Swamy
• How to Pronounce Knife
  Souvankham Thammavongsa
• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
  Laura van den Berg
• Sansei and Sensibility

  Stories
  Karen Tei Yamashita
• Verge
  Lidia Yuknavitch

Spotlight Award

• Inheritors

  Stories
  Asako Serizawa