Assisted Living, Gary Lutz, Future Tense Books

Cages, Sylvia Torti, Schaffner Press

Communion, TJ Beitelman, Black Lawrence Press

Concepcion and the Baby Brokers, Deborah Clearman, Rain Mountain Press

The Creator of Orizaba and Other Stories, Bart Bonner, Underground Voices

Dirt Road, James Kelman, Catapult

The Emily Fables, Stephanie Emily Dickinson, ELJ Publications

Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, Christine Granados, University of New Mexico Press

Footprints in Wet Cement, Peter Wortsman, Pelekinesis

A Fugitive in Walden Woods, Norman Lock, Bellevue Literary Press

Hell’s Gate, Laurent Gaudé, Gallic Books

In the Land of Eternal Spring, Alan Howard, Harvard Square Editions

In the Wake of Our Vows, Neil Connelly, Fomite Press

Large Animals, Jess Arndt, Catapult

Massive Cleansing Fire, Dave Housley, Outpost 19

Miss Portland, David Ebenbach, Orison Books

The Path of the Wind, James A. Misko, Square One Publishers