contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. "The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, "Solstice," Anne Enright, Prize Jury for 2018:  Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent