Best Debut Short Stories 2024: The PEN America Dau Prize

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature, selected by Sindya Bhanoo, Sidik Fofana, and Ayşegül SavaşBest Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2024 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines. Read more