Foreword / Jenny Minton Quigley
Introduction / Lauren Groff
Office hours / Ling Ma (The Atlantic)
Man mountain / Catherine Lacey (Astra)
Me, Rory and Aurora / Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Granta)
The complete / Gabriel Smith (The Drift)
The haunting of Hajji Hotak / Jamil Jan Kochai (The New Yorker)
Wisconsin / Lisa Taddeo (The Sewanee Review)
Ira & the whale / Rachel B. Glaser (The Paris Review)
The commander's teeth / Naomi Shuyama-Gómez (Michigan Quarterly Review)
The mad people of Paris / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead (Southwest Review)
Snake & submarine / Shelby Kinney-Lang (ZYZZYVA)
The mother / Jacob M'hango (Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa and Catalyst Press)
The hollow / 'Pemi Aguda (Zoetrope)
Dream man / Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Francisca González-Arias (Freeman's)
The locksmith / Grey Wolfe LaJoie (The Threepenny Review)
After hours at the Acacia Park pool / Kirstin Valdez Quade (American Short Fiction)
Happy is a doing word / Arinze Ifeakandu (The Kenyon Review)
Elision / David Ryan (New England Review)
Xífù / K-Ming Chang (Electric Literature)
Temporary housing / Kathleen Alcott (Harper's Magazine)
The Blackhills / Eamon McGuinness (The Stinging Fly)
The O. Henry Prize winners 2023: the writers on their work.
