The finalists for the Story Prize, an annual award for books of short fiction, chosen from among 85 submissions, are:
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)
Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (Norton)
At the Story Prize's annual event, held this year on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in New York City, the three finalists will read selections from their work, after which Story Prize director Larry Dark will interview each writer. At the end of the event, Story Prize founder Julie Lindsey will announce the winner and present that author with $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The two runners-up will each receive $5,000.
Lindsey and Dark selected the finalists. The three independent judges who will determine the winner are:
Marie du Vaure, frontlist buyer at Copperfield's in Northern California since last September, who was head buyer at Vroman's, Pasadena, Calif., for eight years and earlier worked at several other independent bookstores in the Los Angeles area.
John Freeman, editor of Granta, book critic, author of The Tyranny of E-mail and former president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Author Jayne Anne Phillips, whose works include the short story collections Black Tickets and Fast Lanes. She is currently director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark.
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)
Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (Norton)
At the Story Prize's annual event, held this year on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in New York City, the three finalists will read selections from their work, after which Story Prize director Larry Dark will interview each writer. At the end of the event, Story Prize founder Julie Lindsey will announce the winner and present that author with $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The two runners-up will each receive $5,000.
Lindsey and Dark selected the finalists. The three independent judges who will determine the winner are:
Marie du Vaure, frontlist buyer at Copperfield's in Northern California since last September, who was head buyer at Vroman's, Pasadena, Calif., for eight years and earlier worked at several other independent bookstores in the Los Angeles area.
John Freeman, editor of Granta, book critic, author of The Tyranny of E-mail and former president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Author Jayne Anne Phillips, whose works include the short story collections Black Tickets and Fast Lanes. She is currently director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark.