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Selected Shorts
The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize is a writing competition sponsored by the stage and radio series Selected Shorts.
This long-running series at Symphony Space in New York City celebrates the art of the short story by having stars of stage and screen read aloud the works of established and emerging writers. Selected Shorts is recorded for Public Radio and heard nationally on both the radio and its weekly podcast.
The 2022 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize will be judged by Min Jin Lee. The winning work will be performed and recorded by an actor in spring 2022, and published on Electric Literature. The winning writer will receive $1000 and a free 10-week course with Gotham Writers.
Min Jin Lee is the author of the bestselling novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award and a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, One Story,The New York Times Book Review, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Lee currently serves as Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College, a trustee of PEN America, a director of the Authors Guild, and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame in 2019. Her third novel, American Hagwon, and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition, are forthcoming.
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