Promotional Information
Marketing
$15,000 marketing budget
Partnership with PEN America will provide ample
event/promotional opportunities, particularly in New York,
Washington DC, and Los Angeles
Advertising campaign across literary magazines who nominated
winners and other entrants
Extensive national academic marketing outreach: First Year
programs, creative writing undergraduate programs, MFA programs,
21st century canonical studies
Partnerships with literary journals who nominated selected
stories
Ads in Poets & Writers and the AWP 2018 program, MLA 2018
program, Writer's Chronicle Publicity
National print and online publicity campaign with a special
focus on writer-centric publications like Poets & Writers and the
Writer's Chronicle, the publications in which the stories
originally appeared
Promotion and support sought from Ben Marcus, John Freeman,
Jennifer Egan, Hanya Yanagihara, and more
9 of 12 stories are written by women; outreach to Bustle,
Refinery29, Feministing, and other women-centric publications
Local/Regional Connections Include - Duncan Mills, CA (Jim
Cole, winning writer) - Indianapolis IN (Ruth Serven, winning
writer) - Minneapolis, MN (Angela Ajayi, winning writer) - Chicago,
IL (Crystal Hana Kim, winning writer) - Lisle, IL (Fifth Wednesday
Journal, literary magazine whose writer was selected) -
Jacksonville, FL (Laura Chow Reeve, winning writer) - Baton Rouge,
LA (The Southern Review, literary magazine whose writer was
selected) - Westport, MA (Ben Shattuck, winning writer) - Amherst
MA (The Common, Amherst College, literary magazine whose writer was
selected) - New Hampshire (Amy Sauber, winning writer) - Boston, MA
(Boston Review, literary magazine whose writer was selected) -
Brooklyn, NY (Emily Chammah, winning writer) - Albany, NY (Fence,
University at Albany, literary magazine whose writer was selected)
- Smithtown, NY (Summerset Review, literary magazine whose writer
was selected) - Denver, CO (Samuel Clare Knights, winning writer) -
Dallas, TX (Southwest Review, literary magazine whose writer was
selected)
About the Author
KELLY LINK is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen,
Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble, which was
a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She and her
husband, Gavin J. Grant, have coedited a number of anthologies,
including multiple volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
and, for young adults, Monstrous Affections. She is the cofounder
of Small Beer Press. Her short stories have been published in The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short
Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories. She has received a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Reviews
Praise for PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017
"A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals,
promising good work to come." —Kirkus Reviews
"Urgent fiction, from breakout talents." —Booklist
"A welcome, diverse, and compelling collection." —PopMatters
“A great overview of some of the year’s most interesting fiction.”
—Vol. 1 Brooklyn
