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Publishing exquisite fiction since 1991.

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With the new year comes our best-ever subscription bundle. From now until February 1st, you can get a one-year subscription to American Short Fiction, The Believer, and BOMB for only $80. That’s a 27% discount off the regular price! This bundle makes a great gift as well, so if you’ve got a literature and art-loving friend or two, get this deal while the getting’s good.

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Founded in 1991 and based in Austin, Texas, American Short Fiction is a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and in 2019 was selected as a winner of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. A subscription to ASF includes three issues, each of which feature stories by well-known authors alongside emerging voices that enrich our understanding of ourselves, our world, and the possibilities of the form.

 

The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In a yearlong subscription to The Believer, readers will receive six issues of journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items.

 

Since 1981, BOMB has been the iconoclastic vehicle of the artist’s voice, supporting vital discourse encouraging dialogue across the arts—from conversations between artists, writers, and performers to new literature and criticism. A subscription to BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, access to a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward.

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Issue 83
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  • Simon Han
  • Ammi Keller
  • Mathilde Merouani
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News

The 2025 Halifax Prize Winners We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year's Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, judged by Eric Puchner. We consider it our privilege to have spent time with so many terrific submissions—thank you for giving us the opportunity to read your work. Congratulations to the winners!
Read the Winners of the 2025 Insider Prize Whose voices are these, I wonder each fall as submissions for the Insider Prize begin accumulating in my office. Four years on as director of Texas’s annual literary award for incarcerated writers, some of the names written across the bloated white and manila envelopes have grown familiar—essayists, short story writers, and the places they are relegated to calling “home”.  
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize We are delighted to announce that Tony Tulathimutte has chosen the winners of our 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Contest. Thank you to our judge and to everyone who submitted—it is always inspiring to read your work. Congratulations to the winners!

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MFA for All Spring 2026: “Bodies in Space, Bodies in Place” with Katie Kitamura is still open. Register now!

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