Ling Ma's Bliss Montage is the 19th Winner of The Story Prize!

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The winner of The Story Prize for books published in 2022 is Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Ling Ma. 

We announced Ma as the 19th winner of the prize after an evening of readings by and interviews with the three finalists for The Story Prize, Andrea Barrett for Natural History (W.W. Norton & Co.) and Morgan Talty for Night of the Living Rez, in addition to Ma.

 

The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. Ma also received an engraved silver bowl, which The Story Prize presents to all winners. As runners-up, Barrett and Talty each received $5,000.

Director Larry Dark and Founder Julie Lindsey selected the three finalists for The Story Prize, now in its 19th year, from among 119 books entered in 2022, representing 79 different publishers or imprints. Three judges—critic, author, and editor Adam Dalva; author Danielle Evans, and bookseller and podcaster Miwa Messer—determined the winner from among the three books chosen as finalists. 

Buy Bliss Montage, Natural History, Night of the LIving Rez other story collections published in 2022 from your local bookseller or on Bookshop.

Congratulations to Ling Ma and to Farrar, Straus and Giroux!