PEN America named its Literary Awards finalists, with the winner to be named on March 31. A selection of finalists:
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
The Devil Is a Southpaw, Brandon Hobson (HarperCollins)
Things in Nature Merely Grow, Yiyun Li (FSG)
SURVIVA, Cannupa Hanska Luger (Ayin Press)
Into the Hush, Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)
The Pelican Child, Joy Williams (Penguin Random House)
PEN Open Book Award
The Devil Three Times, Rickey Fayne (Hachette Book Group)
Ibis, Justin Haynes (Abrams)
Natural History, Brandon Kilbourne(Graywolf Press)
Medicine River, Mary Annette Pember(Penguin Random House)
No Rhododendron, Samyak Shertok(University of Pittsburgh Press)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Show Me Where the Hurt Is, Hayden Casey (Split/Lip Press)
Bear County, Michigan, John Counts (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly)
Guatemalan Rhapsody, Jared Lemus (Ecco)
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds, Christian Moody (Dzanc Books)
There’s Nothing Left For You Here, Allegra Solomon (Four Way Books)
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