Iowa Short Fiction Award
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What Mennonite Girls Are Good for
$19.00 Add to cartA Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025
In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister’s daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family’s faith toward religious doub
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Sears, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970494
- Language: English
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Love, Dirt
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a tri… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Johnson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970397
- Language: English
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Safe as Houses
$16.00 Add to cartSafe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his w… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Bertino, Marie-Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1609381149
- Language: English
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The Man in the Banana Trees
$18.00 Add to cartThe stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future–from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An i… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Sheffer, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389956
- Language: English
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You Never Get It Back
$16.00 Read moreThe linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Adams, Cara Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388135
- Language: English
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How to Leave Hialeah
$16.00 Read moreUnited in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Cap? Crucet’s striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for W… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Crucet, Jennine Cap?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1587298163
- Language: English
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No Use Pretending
$19.00 Read moreThe characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts to relieve their suffering via conne… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Dodson, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389174
- Language: English
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Stories No One Hopes Are about Them
$17.50 Read more2023 Lammy Award for Bisexual Fiction, shortlist
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Bermudez, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388631
- Language: English
