This is the third book containing editors' picks from the Annual Tartt First Fiction Award. With twenty-three authors, this anthology has the largest number of contributors yet. The editors have tried for a balance of tone moving from humor to tragedy, with styles running from gritty realism to the fantastical. Including: Xujun Eberlein (winner), Steven Allaback, Gilbert Allen, CB Anderson, Jacob M. Appel, William Borden, Bonnie Roop Bowles, Michael Burke, Michael W. Cox, James Gish, Alta Ifland, Tyrone Jaeger, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Daniel Libman, Carol Manley (runner-up), Robert Maxwell, Ginny Mackenzie, Katherine Toy Miller, Pat Miller, CD Mitchell, Letitia Lehua Moffitt, James Nolan, and John Vanderslice