The Story Prize

Lauren Groff of Jacksonville, Florida, won the 2018 Story Prize for Florida (Riverhead Books). She received $20,000. The finalists were Deborah Eisenberg of New York City for Your Duck Is My Duck (Ecco) and Jamel Brinkley of Oakland for A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press). They each received $5,000. Jo Ann Beard,

Ron Charles, and Veronica Santiago Liu judged. Akil Kumarasamy of Ann Arbor, Michigan, won the 2018 Story Prize Spotlight Award for Half Gods (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). She received $1,000. Larry Dark and Julie Lindsey judged. The annual awards are given for short story collections published during the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.) The Story Prize, 41 Watchung Plaza, #384, Montclair, NJ 07042. Larry Dark, Director. info@thestoryprize.org

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