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Announcing the 2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Announcing the winner of the 2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, Gina Balibrera.

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Álvaro

2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Min Jin Lee.

Gina Balibrera

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Ghostface Aunty

Folks see him like a light in the dark. He a white egg in a carton of brown!

Michael D. Copperman

Fiction

Vicious Breeds

I just don’t happen to think men are as good as dogs, because I’m not fucking crazy.

Liv Stratman

Fiction

Berlin I

“Only with difficulty did I adjust to my life here,” writes a lonely man in this surreal tale of a dystopian city and an ill-fated search for a friend. 

Michael Braunschweig

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Underneath the Darkness

Yuri Herrera's first two novels explore Mexican border identity. 

Aaron Bady

Fiction

Trumpeteers

2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner selected by Jennifer Egan.

Mikayla Ávila Vilá

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Paul Park’s Hidden Worlds

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.

John Crowley

Fiction

The Siege

I asked my husband to let the woman go.

Shruti Swamy

Fiction

Announcing the 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Announcing 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner, Mikayla Ávila Vilá.

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Fiction, Literature & Culture

Still Tilting at Windmills

Spain struggles to honor the legacy of Cervantes.

Stephen Phelan

Fiction

A Modern Marriage

A debut short story by an emerging Nigerian writer. Winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Grace Oluseyi

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