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COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025 HERE: Amazon Barnes & Noble Google Play COOLEST 2022, 2023, and 2024 NOW IN AUDIOBOOK! 2022 2023 2024 Praise for COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES: “This baker's-dozen assortment contains a wide range of pleasures and surprises. The stories are tender, moving, electrifying, comical, and quirky. They are altogether cool.” —PEN/Hemingway Award winner BOBBIE ANN MASON, author of Shiloh and Other Stories “Like dipping into people's lives for moments of joy and pain.” —JENNY LAWSON, NYT bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened “The stories in this volume are exemplars of the finest short story craft in contemporary literature.” --California Review of Books “Above and beyond cool. Once I cracked this open, I was hooked.” —ALEX SEGURA, LA Times Book Award winner, bestselling author of Secret Identity “Nothing short of a miracle, really, that despite the despair of Covid, such a wonderful anthology could emerge.” —ANNE SERLING, author of As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling “The best current fiction anthology on the market.” —MARTIN OTT, author of The Interrogator's Notebook “Unforgettable characters, memorable plots, and crackling prose. The tension hums on every page.” —PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist REBECCA JOHNS, author of The Countess “Edgy and exceptional stories for inspiration, entertainment, and to take in the drumbeat of the zeitgeist.” —ELIZABETH McKENZIE, author of The Portable Veblen, longlisted for the National Book Award |
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GOOD NEWS FOR COOLEST
COOLEST 2025 wins the 2025 National Indie Excellence Award for Anthologies The University of Alberta Press signs MEHDI M. KASHANI's first short story collection JEREMY STELZNER wins a Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing fellowship Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine signs a *2nd* story by TWIST PHELAN since she signed with COOLEST COOLEST 2025 wins the 2025 International Book Award for Fiction: Anthologies A story by FRANCINE WITTE wins a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart 2026) Don Winslow chooses TWIST PHELAN's "Good Shoes" for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025 Kelp Books signs a collection of BARBARA DEMARCO-BARRETT'S short stories Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine signs a story by TWIST PHELAN Ithaca's radio station WVBR interviews Mark Wish about COOLEST 2025 2 COOLEST 2025 authors sign with agents after signing with COOLEST A story by MATHIEU CAILLER wins a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart 2025) Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine signs a story by DENNIS McFADDEN DW GREGORY wins the West Virginia Fiction Competition COOLEST 2024 wins the National Indie Excellence Award for Anthologies MARK WISH'S NECESSARY DEEDS wins the International Book Award for Mystery/Suspense Melville House signs the sequel to Pulitzer Prize finalist LEE MARTIN'S The Bright Forever MARK WISH'S novel NECESSARY DEEDS is nominated for a National Book Award Graywolf Press hires T.E. WILDERSON as editorial assistant Cornerstone Press signs a collection of DENNIS McFADDEN'S short stories Level Best books signs GERALD ELIAS to a 2-book contract DENNIS McFADDEN wins The Missouri Review's Perkoff Prize for best story Amy Einhorn at Crown Publishing signs CYNTHIA WEINER's novel A Gorgeous Excitement in a significant deal Regal House signs DAVID EBENBACH'S novel Possible Happiness COOLEST 2023 wins the National Indie Excellence Award for BEST ANTHOLOGY S.A. COSBY'S novel All the Sinners Bleed is published to high acclaim by Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, & the NYT Tin House Books signs MORGAN TALTY'S first novel MICHAEL HOPKINS'S short story collection Never Stop Exiting is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2025 MORGAN TALTY wins *all* these awards (!): • National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize •New England Book Award • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection • Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction NIKKI DOLSON wins Barbara Neely Grant DAVID BOROFKA reports two new book contracts: • Johns Hopkins University Press signed his collection of stories, The Bliss of Your Attention • His novel The End of Good Intentions was signed by Fomite Press COOLEST 2025 contributors Linda Bernal Demond J Blake Philip Cesario Mathieu Cailler Kathleen Furin Brian Patrick Heston Mehdi M. Kashani Timothy Laurence Marsh Lee Martin Ed McManis Twist Phelan Beatrice Turner Francine Witte |