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coolest american stories
(an annual anthology)

Interesting writing.


​COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2023
available at your local bookstore or order online:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Itasca Books (our indie distributor)
Audiobook from Google Play


COOLEST 2022 NOW AVAILABLE IN AUDIOBOOK, TOO!
Audiobook from Google Play


RECENT PRAISE:
​“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

​“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
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“Above and beyond cool. Once I cracked this open, I was hooked.”
—ALEX SEGURA, LA Times Book Award winner, bestselling author of Secret Identity


“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


“The latest and greatest talent writing in the short form today.”
—TARA LASKOWSKI, winner of Agatha and Anthony Awards, author of The Mother Next Door and One Night Gone

“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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RECENT GOOD NEWS FOR COOLEST

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 CLASS OF 2023"
(our 2023 contributors
)
David Borofka
Nikki Dolson
Gerald Elias
Nancy J. Fagan
Elizabeth P. Glixman
R. C. Goodwin
Nathan Alling Long
Patricia García Luján
Alex Pickett
Georgia Smith
Morgan Talty
Francisco Uribe
T. E. Wilderson
​
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