Book Club Picks for January 2021 By Gilcy Aquino | Jan 21, 2021
It’s finally a new year, and what a year 2020 was. From brushing up on amateur baking skills to spending even more time at the tube, Americans have had more time for their favorite hobbies especially getting through our to-read piles. At the top of many of those piles? Book club picks! It s nice to read with a community you can join while being a responsible socially distant individual or even without leaving the comfort of your own bed. And starting now,
PW will round up each major book club s monthly pick for you in our new column,
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Finalists announced for $20,000 short story prize
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 12, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT
NEW YORK Two former National Book Award nominees, Deesha Philyaw and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, are among this year’s finalists for the 17th annual Story Prize for short fiction.
Philyaw’s “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” and Bynum’s “Likes” were finalists, along with Danielle Evans’ “The Office of Historical Corrections.”
“In a difficult year, these three books provided solace not by offering escapist fantasies but by directly engaging with past and current realities through truly inventive and deeply engaging storytelling,” Story Prize Director Larry Dark said in a statement Tuesday.
The Austin-based literary magazine
American Short Fiction has been around for thirty years, and periodically puts out an ‘Emerging Writers’ issue, comprising new short works from promising but not yet well-known authors. Their latest issue (number 72) is one such edition, and for the first time it focuses on celebrating emerging Black writers.
American Short Fiction asked author Danielle Evans, whose novella and story collection
The Office of Historical Corrections was released to acclaim last year, to guest edit the new issue. “I’m usually a ‘contributing editor’ for the magazine, which is a very fancy title for meaning I just send them stories that I come across and for people who I think are promising writers, I encourage them to submit to the magazine,” Evans says. “But this time I got to actually pick the work for the issue, so it’s exciting.