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Time for the new short story schedule for the last half of 2025 and a little bit into 2026. It's here! The stories in our anthology The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction will alternate biweekly with stories online, available at the link provided. Big thank yous to Tonya and Dinesh for contributing online stories and to Dinesh for helping me make the NYer title accessible to everyone. Please look it over and let me know if you see any errors on dates, titles, anything. I always love these new lists and looking forward to sharing the stories with all of you. Happy reading!

2025 Short Story Schedule, Part 2

August 3: “The Ceiling” by Kevin Brockmeier in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition.

August 17: “Love of My Days” by Louise Erdrich at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OM8c...

August 31: “Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition

September 14: “Why Don’t You Dance?” by Raymond Carver at https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories...

September 28: “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition.

October 12: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe at https://americanliterature.com/author...

October 26: “Relief” by Peter Ho Davies in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition.

November 9: “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wing” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez at chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/AVe...

November 23: “After Rosa Parks” by Janet Desaulniers in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition.

December 7: “Christmas” by Vladimir Nabokov at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...

December 21: “Nilda” by Junot Diaz in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, 2nd edition.

January 4: “Suraiya” by Shibabrata Barman at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/...

One note, if you don't subscribe to the New Yorker please click on the December 7 title, "Christmas" by Vladimir Nabokov and let me know if you can get it. It was sent to me in a NYer email at one point under their Classics. Normally, everyone can access those but I just want to make sure.

The link worked for me

Thank you, Mary!!

Looks fun. Thanks, Barb!