ASME AWARD FOR FICTION
Established to celebrate the historic link between literary fiction and magazine journalism, this award honors magazines and websites for excellence in the publication of fiction as demonstrated by three examples of work

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WINNER
Zoetrope: All-Story
Michael Ray, Editor
"Seven Stories About Tammy," by Elizabeth McCracken, Spring, "Countdown," by Anthony Marra, Spring, and "Town," by Alan Murrin, Summer

These stories demonstrate, in three memorable ways, the best of the short-story form, where a whole universe can be present in a single paragraph, said the Fiction Award judges. The characters in Elizabeth McCracken’s “Seven Stories About Tammy” get drunk, throw shade, crack jokes—as living, breathing people do. There is only a small family at the center of Anthony Marra’s “Countdown,” but the emotional stakes couldn’t be higher. In “Town,” one of the first stories published by the young writer Alan Murrin, a marriage is captured in a few lines of dialogue. 

FINALISTS

The Georgia Review
Gerald Ma, Editor
Amy Bonnaffons, Fiction Editor
"Sanrevelle," by Dave Eggers, Summer, "The Escape," by Alessandra Carati, translated by Laura Masini and Linda Worrell, Fall, and "The Black Hole of Calcutta," by Urvi Kumbhat, Winter

Harper's Magazine
Christopher Carroll, Editor
"Liquid Papers," by Nicolette Polek, July, "Lovefool," by Andrew Martin, August, and "Discourse to Self," by Rosalind Brown, November

The Paris Review
Emily Stokes, Editor
"The Beautiful Salmon," by Joanna Kavenna, "An Eye in the Throat," by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell, and "Social Promotion," by Elijah Bailey, Spring

The Yale Review
Meghan O’Rourke, Editor
"Rosaura at Dawn," by Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Christina MacSweeney, Spring, "A Mild Irreversible Form of Enlightenment," by Anna DeForest, Spring, and "Twirl," by Ayşegül Savaş, Winter