Elliott Holt is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer who is almost finished with her first novel. (See her Longreads page here.)
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I love short stories, so I decided my picks should be mostly short fiction. It’s no secret that the likes of The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, One Story and Tin House publish great fiction, but there are also a lot of excellent online literary magazines, so I wanted to include work from a couple of them here. I had to include one story from The New Yorker, though, because Alice Munro is one of my favorite writers.
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• Reese Okyong Kwon, “Stations of the Sun” in Kenyon Review
• Alice Munro, “Gravel” in The New Yorker
• Nahid Rachlin, “Bijan” in Guernica
• Laura van den Berg, “Mansion” in Guernica
• Colson Whitehead, “Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia” in Grantland
Photo credit: Rebecca Zeller
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