Shannon Sanders

Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her short story “The Good, Good Men” was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and is featured in BEST DEBUT SHORT STORIES 2020. She would love to hear from you at [email protected]

Here’s where she infrequently tweets: @ShandersWrites

Here’s where she posts lots of scintillating knitting content and occasional writing news: @i.exaggerate

Short Stories

• • “The Good, Good Men”–winner, 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
    Puerto del Sol, Black Voices Series (spring 2019)
  • “Bless Her Heart”–honorable mention, July/August 2016 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award Contest
    Requited Journal Issue 19 (spring 2019)
  • “Dragonflies”
    SLICE Issue 24: TIME (spring 2019)
  • “The Gatekeepers”
    Juked # 16 (summer 2019)
  • “Company”
    Strange Horizons Issue 10 February 2020 (winter 2020)
  • “Nobody Would Do That”
    Electric Literature, The Commuter Issue No. 107 (spring 2020)
  • “The Everest Society”
    One Story #263 (spring 2020)
  • “Mote”
    Joyland (summer 2020)
  • “Rule Number One”
    Hobart (summer 2020)
  • “Rioja”
    SLICE (coming fall 2020)