Year-End Lists

The Story Prize: 2021

Winner

• Filthy Animals
  Brandon Taylor

Finalists

• Five Tuesdays in Winter
  Lily King
• Let Me Think

  Stories
  J. Robert Lennon

Longlist

• You Never Get It Back

  Stories
  Cara Blue Adams
• The Ghost Variations

  One Hundred Stories
  Kevin Brockmeier
• Land of Big Numbers
  Te-Ping Chen
• Skinship
  Yoon Choi
• Gordo

  Stories
  Jaime Cortez
• Life Among the Terranauts

  Stories
  Caitlin Horrocks
• Love Like Water, Love Like Fire

  Stories
  Mikhail Iossel
• My Monticello
  Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
• The Souvenir Museum
  Elizabeth McCracken
• Milk Blood Heat
  Dantiel W. Moniz
• The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You

  Stories
  Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• King of the Animals

  Stories
  Josh Russell
• American Estrangement
  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
• Are You Enjoying?

  Stories
  Mira Sethi
• Attrib. and Other Stories
  Eley Williams
• Monster in the Middle
  Tiphanie Yanique

Also Notable

• The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
  Brian Evenson
• Big Dark Hole

  And Other Stories
  Jeffrey Ford
• The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
  Allan Gurganus
• The (Other) You

  Stories
  Joyce Carol Oates
• Prayer for the Living

  Stories
  Ben Okri
• Excuse Me While I Disappear

  Stories
  Joanna Scott
• Look for Me and I'll Be Gone
  John Edgar Wideman
• Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

  Stories
  Hilma Wolitzer

Spotlight Award

• Born Into This

  Stories
  Adam Thompson