The Best American Short Stories 2020
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Tragic Flaw. American Short Fiction, vol. 22, no. 69.
Greenwell, Garth
Harbor. The New Yorker, September 16.
Grimm, Mary
Sisters. Colorado Review, vol. 46, no. 3.
Hagenston, Becky
The Age of Discovery. The Southampton Review, vol. 13, no. 25.
Fillies. Washington Square Review, no. 43.
Hamilton, Elisabeth
People’s Party. Cimarron Review, nos. 206, 207, and 208.
Haven, Chris
The Marks. Kenyon Review Online, January/February.
Hemenway, Arna Bontemps
Wolves of Karelia. The Atlantic, August.
Heng, Rachel
The Rememberers. McSweeney’s, no. 58.
Horrocks, Caitlin
Teacher. The Arkansas International, no. 6.
Horton, Savannah
The Shower. The Cincinnati Review, vol. 16, no. 1.
Lacey, Catherine
Being Shot. Playboy, Fall.
Cut. The New Yorker, April 22.
Lee, Min Jin
The Best Girls. Amazon Original Stories: Disorder.
Lewis, Jessi
Daria’s Knives. The Hopkins Review, vol. 12, no. 2.
L’Heureux, John
The Escape. The New Yorker, May 6.
Li, Yiyun
All Will Be Well. The New Yorker, March 11.
The Department of No Solution. Zoetrope: All-Story, vol. 23, no. 3.
Machado, Carmen Maria
Haunt. Conjunctions, no. 72.
Makkai, Rebecca
Webster’s Last Stand. American Short Fiction, vol. 22, no. 68.
Mandelbaum, Becky
Goodbye, Sugar Land. The Sun, no. 526.
Maren, Mesha
Milk River. The Southern Review, vol. 55, no. 3.
McQuade, Helen
Helen in Texarkana. Memorious, no. 30.
Means, David
The Red Dot. Harper’s Magazine, December.
Vows. Granta, no. 148.
Merino, Faith
Signs and Wonders. Notre Dame Review, no. 47.
Moniz, Dantiel
Thicker Than Water. McSweeney’s, no. 56.
Moore, Linda McCullough
World Without End. Alaska Quarterly Review, vol. 36, nos. 1 and 2.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The New Yorker, October 14.
Ong, Han
Javi. The New Yorker, June 10 and 17.
Orange, Tommy
New Jesus. McSweeney’s, no. 58.
Otis, Abbey Mei
Save Yourself. McSweeney’s, no. 58.
Pearson, Joanna
Dear Shadows. Crazyhorse, no. 96.
Penkov, Miroslav
Black Water, Plum Rain. The Southern Review, vol. 55, no. 3.
Pierce, Thomas
Visitors Welcome. Granta, no. 148.
Pillow, Megan
Lily in the Light. X-R-A-Y.
Plunkett, Genevieve
Prepare Her. The Southern Review, vol. 55, no. 4.
Sting. Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 29.
Poliner, Elizabeth
Anomie. Story, no. 5.
Potter, Steven
The House at the End of the Night. Conjunctions, no. 72.
Price, Adam O’Fallon
Marrow. Kenyon Review Online, March/April.
Rabe, David
Uncle Jim Called. The New Yorker, July 8 and 15.
Rao, Shoba
The O Ring. Freeman’s, no. 6.
Ratcliffe, Signe
The Other Side of the Dog’s Head. Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 29.
Rea, Amanda
The Crab Theory. American Short Fiction, vol. 22, no. 68.
Richards, Willa C.
Failure to Thrive. The Paris Review, no. 231.
Ritzenhaler, Melanie
A Good Place Gone. Cimarron Review, nos. 206, 207, and 208.
The Ribboncutters. West Branch, no. 91.
Rosenthal, Abby
Birdman. Southern Humanities Review, vol. 52, no. 3.
Samarasan, Preeta
Sarala and Jeya. Copper Nickel, no. 28.
Sanchez, Santiago Jose
You Will Not Cry. Subtropics, no. 27.
Serpell, Namwali
Take it. Freeman’s, no. 6.
Severn, Eric
McGuffin. Chicago Quarterly Review, no. 28.
Silber, Joan
Freedom from Want. Tin House, no. 80.
Soileau, Benjamin
God’s Breath. Grist, no. 12.
Stevens, J. Jezewska
The Furnace Room. Tin House, no. 80.
Strout, Elizabeth
Motherless Child. The New Yorker, August 5 and 12.
Talty, Morgan
The Name Means Thunder. The Georgia Review, vol. 73, no. 3.
Taylor, Brandon
Anne of Cleves. Guernica, September 19.
Thielke, D. J.
The Bullet Game. Fiction, no. 64.
Torday, Daniel
Neighbor. Conjunctions, no. 72.
Travieso, Robert
Anvil. Tin House, vol. 20, no. 3.
Troy, Judy
Finding Bill Henry. Subtropics, no. 27.
Tulathimutte, Tony
The Feminist. n+1, no. 35.
Upton, Lee
A Girl from Urbino. Ascent.
Van den Berg, Laura
The Cult of Mary. BOMB, no. 146.
Vaz, Katherine
Revenge in the Name of All Owls. The Common, no. 18.
Walbert, Kate
To Do. The New Yorker, September 2.
Wang, Weike
The Trip. The New Yorker, November 18.
Wilson, Martha
Binoculars. Event, vol. 47, no. 3.
Wortman, Jennifer
Afterlife. TriQuarterly, no. 156.
American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
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Alaska Quarterly Review
American Short Fiction
Another Chicago Magazine
The Antioch Review
The Arkansas International
Ascent
The Atlantic
The Bare Life Review
Black Warrior Review
BOMB
Booth
Boulevard
The Briar Cliff Review
Callaloo
Carve
Catamaran
Cherry Tree
Chicago Quarterly Review
The Cincinnati Review
Colorado Review
Conjunctions
Copper Nickel
Crazyhorse
Denver Quarterly
Ecotone
Epiphany
Event
Fairy Tale Review
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Fiction
The Fiddlehead
Foglifter
Fourteen Hills
F®iction (Friction)
The Georgia Review
The Gettysburg Review
Glimmer Train
Guernica
Granta
Grist
Harper’s Magazine
Harpur Palate
Harvard Review
The Hopkins Review
The Hudson Review
Image
Indiana Review
Into the Void
The Iowa Review
Iron Horse
Jabberwock Review
Joyland
Kenyon Review
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
Lake Effect
Lalitamba
The Literary Review
Manoa
McSweeney’s
Meridian
Michigan Quarterly Review
Missouri Review
Montana Quarterly
Nelle
New England Review
New Letters
The New Yorker
Ninth Letter
Noon
The Normal School
North American Review
North Dakota Quarterly
Notre Dame Review
One Story
Orca
Orion
Oxford American
The Paris Review
Passages North
Pembroke Magazine
Playboy
Ploughshares
Potomac Review
Prairie Schooner
Pulp Literature
Raritan
Room
Ruminate
Salamander
Salmagundi
The Sewanee Review
The Southampton Review
Southern Humanities Review
Southern Indiana Review
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Story
Subtropics
The Sun
Tahoma Literary Review
Third Coast
Thoughtprints
The Threepenny Review
Tin House
Trajectory
Virginia Quarterly Review
Washington Square Review
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Wildness
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Curtis Sittenfeld, guest editor, is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, and Rodham, which have been translated into thirty languages. She is also the author of the short story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It and her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in Minneapolis.
Heidi Pitlor has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.
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