User:IceCreamForEveryone/PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers. The 12 winning stories are selected by a committee of three judges who are well-respected experts in the art of the short story. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize.

The prize is generously supported by the family of the late Robert J. Dau, whose commitment to the literary arts has made him a fitting namesake for this career-launching prize. Inspired by Dau’s hometown in northern Michigan and its proximity to Walloon Lake where Ernest Hemingway spent much time and derived inspiration from, the prize promotes emerging voices and spotlights the next generation of fiction writers.

Winners

Year	Writer	Short story	Literary magazine, journal, or cultural website
2022	Yasmin Adele Majeed	A Wedding in Multan, 1978	The Asian American Literary Review
2022	Oyedotun Damilola Muees	All We Have Left is Ourselves	Reckoning
2022	Emma Shannon	Beat by Beat	Barrelhouse Magazine
2022	Patch Kirschenbaum	For Future Reference: Notes on the 7-10 Split	The Cincinnati Review
2022	Cal Shook	Man, Man, Et Cetera	The Virginia Quarterly Review
2022	Edward Salem	Sacrilege	BOMB Magazine
2022	Erin Connal	The Black Kite and the Wind	Virginia Quarterly Review
2022	Seth Wang	The Cacophobe	Ploughshares
2022	RZ Baschir	The Chicken	The White Review
2022	CK Kane	Them Bones	Hobart
2022	Preeti Vangani	Work Wives	Typehouse Literary Magazine
2022	Catherine Bai	Writing with Blood	Flock
2021	Heather Aruffo	Force, Mass, Acceleration	The Southern Review
2021	Lindsay Ferguson	Good Girls	Barrelhouse
2021	Isaac Hughes Green	The First Time I Said It	The Georgia Review
2021	Amy Haejung	Maria	Waxwing Magazine
2021	Nishanth Injam	The Math of Living	Virginia Quarterly Review
2021	Khaddafina Mbabazi	Transit	Virginia Quarterly Review
2021	Mackenzie McGee	Re:Frankie	Porter House Review
2021	Mathapelo Mofokeng	The Strong-Strong Winds	adda
2021	Alberto Reyes Morgan	Salt	Michigan Quarterly Review
2021	Stanley Patrick Stocker	The List	Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art
2021	Pardeep Toor	Taxi	Midwest Review
2021	Qianze Zhang	Mandy’s Mary Sue	Sine Theta Magazine
2020	Damitri Martinez	Bat Outta Hell	Foglifter Journal
2020	Valerie Hegarty	Cats vs. Cancer	New England Review
2020	Sena Moon	Dog Dreams	Quarterly West
2020	Matthew Jeffrey Vegari	Don’t Go to Strangers	Zyzzyva
2020	Ani Sison Cooney	Evangelina Concepcion	Epiphany
2020	Willa Richards	Failure to Thrive	The Paris Review
2020	Kristen Sahaana Surya	Gauri Kalyanam	The Rumpus
2020	Mbozi Haimbe	Madam’s Sister	Granta
2020	Mohit Manohar	Summertime	Michigan Quarterly Review
2020	Shannon Sanders	The Good, Good Men	Puerto del Sol, Black Voices Series
2020	David Kelly Lawrence	The Other Child	The Threepenny Review
2020	Kikuko Tsumura (translated by Polly Barton)	The Water Tower and the Turtle	Granta
2019	Sarah Curry	The Rickies	Nimrod Journal
2019	Laura Freudig	Mother and Child	The Sun
2019	Doug Henderson	The Manga Artist	The Iowa Review
2019	Enyeribe Ibegwan	Good Hope	Auburn Avenue
2019	Pingmei Lan	Cicadas and the Dead Chairman	Epiphany
2019	John Paul Infante	Without a Big One	Kweli Journal
2019	Tamiko Beyer	Last Days, Part 1	Black Warrior Review
2019	Marilyn Manolakas	Tornado Season	Alaska Quarterly Review
2019	Erin Singer	Bad Northern Women	Conjunctions
2019	Kelsey Peterson	The Unsent Letters of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal	Conjunctions
2019	Jade Jones	Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary	The Rumpus
2019	A. B. Young	Vain Beasts	Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
2018	Elinam Agbo	1983	The Baltimore Review
2018	Lin King	Appetite	SLICE
2018	Lauren Friedlander	Bellevonia Beautee	The Rumpus
2018	Alex Terrell	Black Dog	Black Warrior Review
2018	Grayson Morley	Brent, Bandit King	The Brooklyn Review
2018	Megan Tucker	Candidates	Washington Square Review
2018	Cristina Fries	New Years in La Calera	EPOCH
2018	Celeste Mohammed	Six Months New	New England Review
2018	Ernie Wang	Stay Brave, My Hercules	McSweeney’s
2018	Maud Streep	The Crazies	One Story
2018	Ava Tomasula y Garcia	Videoteca Fin del Mundo	Black Warrior Review
2018	Drew McCutchen	Zombie Horror	The Baltimore Review
2017	Angela Ajayi	Galina	Fifth Wednesday Journal
2017	Amber Caron	The Handler	Southwest Review
2017	Emily Chammah	Tell Me, Please	The Common
2017	Jim Cole	The Asphodel Meadow	The Summerset Review
2017	Crystal Hana Kim	Solee	The Southern Review
2017	Samuel Clare Knights	The Manual Alphabet	Fence
2017	Katherine Magyarody	Goldhawk	The Malahat Review
2017	Grace Oluseyi	A Modern Marriage	Boston Review
2017	Laura Chow Reeve	1,000-Year-Old Ghosts	Hyphen Magazine
2017	Amy Sauber	State Facts for the New Age	The Rumpus
2017	Ruth Serven	A Message	Epiphany: A Literary Journal
2017	Ben Shattuck	Edwin Chase of Nantucket	Harvard Review

External links

• PEN America
• PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

Category:PEN America awards Category:Short story awards Category:American fiction awards Category:Awards established in 2016 Category:2016 establishments in the United States