The Ultimate Updated Guide to YA Short Stories

Dahlia Adler

• “Daughter of the Book” (The Radical Element)
• “I Bleed” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “Lygia”(His Hideous Heart)
• “Molly’s Lips” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Say My Name” (At Midnight)
• “Two Truths and an Oy” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Volley Girl” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Jaime Adoff

• “The Truest Story There Is” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Nafiza Afad

• “Mirch, Masala, and Magic” (Magic Has No Borders)

Ann Aguirre

• “Wild Magic”(Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Renée Ahdieh

• “The Blood of Imuriv” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “La Revancha Del Tango” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Nothing into All” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Samira Ahmed

• “The Agony of a Heart’s Wish” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “The Coldest Spot in the Universe” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “A Guidebook for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire” (Vampires Never Get Old)

Karen Akins

• “Strong Enough” (Welcome Home)

Courtney Alameda

• “The Hour of the Wolf” (Our Shadows Have Claws)

Melissa Albert

• “The Sister Switch” (At Midnight)

William Alexander

• “Found Objects” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “On The Tip of My Tongue” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)
• “Welcome” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Carrie S. Allen

• “Kylie with an L” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Adi Alsaid

• “Ajshara” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Between Visibilities” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Carlos and the Fifteen-Year-Old Heart” (Welcome Home)
• “Fleeing, Leaving, Moving” (Come On In)

Ameriie

• “Abyss” (Cool. Awkward. Black.) 
• “Jack” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “When Life Hands You A Lemon Fruitbomb” (A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope)

K. Ancrum

• “Taming of the Soulmate” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “Walk 153” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)

Jodi Lynn Anderson

• Chicken (21 Proms)

Lily Anderson

• “Anchor Point” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “We Have Seen Better Days” (That Way Madness Lies)

MT Anderson

• “The King of Pellinese” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Oracle Engine” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “Sweet Everlasting” (The Collectors)

Maria E. Andreu

• “The Curandera and The Alchemist” (Come On In)

Jack Maia Arlow

• “Shofar, So Good” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Jennifer L. Armentrout

• “The Dictionary of You and Me” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Kelley Armstrong

• “Branded” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Hunting Kat”  (Kisses From Hell)
• “Kat”  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “New Chicago”  (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

David Arnold

• “Suburbian” (Behind The Song)

Aashna Avachat

• “Fall Once More” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Arushi Avachat

• “Rani’s Resolutions” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Nafiza Azad

• “All The Colors of Goodbye” (Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home)
• “Dupatta Diaries” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Stefan Bachmann

• “M” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Paolo Bacigalupi

• “A Pocket Full of Dharma” (Diverse Energies)

Morgan Baden

• “Fly, Lions, Fly” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)

Lisa McMann

• “The Angriest Man” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Karen M. McManus

• “Never Have I Ever” (Up All Night)

Casey McQuiston

• “Bloody, Lovely” (Eternally Yours)

Richelle Mead

• “Blue Moon” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Homecoming” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Sunshine”  (Kisses From Hell)

Meg Medina

• “The Birth of Susi Go-Go” (The Radical Element)
• “The Mark of a Good Man” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)

Tehlor Kay Mejia

• “Doublespeak” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “Healing Rosa” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Starsong” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Sandhya Menon

• “My Demon Prince Charming” (Eternally Yours)
• “The Surprise Match” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Anne Meriano

• “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “Shame and Social Media” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)
• “Warning Bells” (Living Beyond Borders)
• “When You Bring a Dog to Prom” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

Billy Merrell

• “My Boyfriend Refuses To Speak In Iambic Pentameter” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)
• “Off Like a Prom Dress” (21 Proms)

Marissa Meyer

• ”Gold in the Roots of the Grass” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Sea Witch” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Shooting Stars” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Stephenie Meyer

• “Hell on Earth” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Elizabeth Miles

• “Defense Mechanisms” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Kirsten Miller

• “Nemesis” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Linsey Miller

• “Give Up the Ghost” (Being Ace)

Saundra Mitchell

• ”Bonnie and Clyde” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Chosen One” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Far From Home” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “Now Bid Time Return” (Defy The Dark)
• “Origin Story” (Transmogrify!)
• “Thinner than Water” (Grim)

Sarah Mlynowski

• “Cruisin’” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Your Big Night” (21 Proms)

Goldy Moldavsky

• “Good Shabbos” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Hispanic Jewish Bingo” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)

Hillary Monahan

• “Breathe You In” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)
• “Red” (His Hideous Heart)
• “The Soft Place” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Vanessa Montalban

• “Welcome to Hotel Paranoia” (Night of the Living Queers)

Candice Montgomery

• “Bend The Truth, Break It Too” (Transmogrify!)
• “Formation” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “Kick. Push. Coast” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “Save The Lead” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Ashia Monet

• “Be Not Afraid” (All These Sunken Souls)

Nina Moreno

• “Magical Offerings” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “She Could Be A Farmer” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Kass Morgan

• “259 Million Miles” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Lauren Morrill

• “Invited” (Welcome Home)

Brittany Morris

• “The Green Thumb Ward” (Together, Apart)
• “Queeniums for Greenium!” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)

Circe Moskowitz

• “Creatures of Kings” (Creatures of Kings)
• “No Harm Done” (All These Sunken Souls)

Hannah Moskowitz

• “Neilah” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Maya Motayne

• “Color-Coded” (Reclaim the Stars)

Maika and Maritza Moulte

• “Beware the Empty Subway Car” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Black Girl Nature Group” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)

Sarah Mughal Rana

• “A Wedding Recipe for Disaster” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

Julie Murphy

• “Bye Bye, Piper Berry” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)
• “Fifty Swimsuits” (Body Talk)
• “The First and Last Kiss” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Lessons for Beginners” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Senior Year Sucks” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “Something Real” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

E.C. Myers

• “The Cage” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)
• “City Girl” (Behind The Song)
• “Kiss and Kiss and Kiss and Tell” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Land of the Morning Calm” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Lily Myers

• “I Have Always Eaten The Bread” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Shrinking Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Walter Dean Myers

• “Tags”  (Fresh Ink)

Lauren Myracle

• “The Corsage” (Prom Nights From Hell)

G. Neri

• “Pool Bandits” (The Collectors)
• “Under Berlin” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Marieke Nijkamp

• “Anchor Points” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)
• “Better For All The World” (The Radical Element)
• “Changeling” (His Hideous Heart)
• “Con Nights, Parallel Hearts” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “The Day The Dragon Came” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Garth Nix

• “A Handful of Ashes” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Happy Go Lucky”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Highest Justice” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Losing Her Divinity” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Peace in Our Time” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Quiet Knight” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Triangle Solo” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Vampire Weather” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “You Won’t Feel a Thing” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Alyson Noel

• “Bring Me to Life” (Kisses From Hell)

Naomi Novik

• “Purity Test” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Naomi Shihab Nye

• “Lexicon” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Sarah Ockler

• “The Moth and the Spider” (Defy The Dark)

Daniel José Older

• “Flecha” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “Many Stories, Many Roads” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “A Stranger at the Bochinche” (Fresh Ink)

Axie Oh

• “Mecha Girl” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “A Unique Point of View” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Ellen Oh

• “The Last Day”  (Diverse Energies)
• “Second Chances” (Behind The Song)

Tochi Onyebuchi

• “Habibi” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “The Hero’s Journey” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Samson and the Delilahs” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Tragedy of Cory Lanez” (That Way Madness Lies)

Amparo Ortiz

• “The Boy From Hell” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “La Cotorra y El Flamboyan” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)
• “#Goals” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Mark Oshiro

• “Eres Un Poncho” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)
• “Fake Scorpio” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “How Slow the Snow Is Falling” (When We Become Ours)
• “Mirrors, Windows & Selfies” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “Refresh” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “Shipwrecked” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “This Is Our Manifesto” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “Unmoor” (A Universe of Wishes)

Shelly Page

• “Anna” (Night of the Living Queers)

Danielle Paige

• “The Actress” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
• “The Dark, Scary Parts and All” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Prom” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Something Borrowed, or The Costume” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)

Natalie C. Parker

• “Cass, An, and Dra” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Silk Blade” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “The Sweet Trade” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Vampires Never Say Die” (Vampires Never Get Old)

Shannon Parker

• “Tunneling Through” (Welcome Home)

Sajini Patel

• “One Day” (Together, Apart)

Sonia Patel

• “Nothing Feels No Pain” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Jackson Pearce

• “Sell Out” (Grim)
• “Where The Light Is” (Defy The Dark)

Mary E. Pearson

• “Gargouille” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Susan Beth Pfeffer

• “Reunion” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Ashley Hope Pérez

• “The ‘Nice Girl’ Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “What Home Is” (Rural Voices)

Mitali Perkins

• “Three Pointer” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Stephanie Perkins

• “In Ninety Minutes, Turn North” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “It’s a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Diana Peterfreund

• “Burned Bright” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Errant”(Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “Foundlings” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Stray Magic” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Junauda Petrus-Nasah

• “Loving On Me Is Prayer: Queer Journeys Into Black Girl Self-Love” (Body Talk)
• “Melanitis” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)

Prerna Pickett

• “The Disaster Wedding” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

Aprilynne Pike

• “Nature” (Defy The Dark)

Marcella Pixley

• “Almost Beautiful” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)
• “Hush” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Rebecca Podos

• “A Story About a Girl” (At Midnight)

Laura Pohl

• “Esmeralda” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)
• “writing in your mother tongue” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Aiden Polydoros

• “It Stays With You” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

Cindy Pon

• “Beautiful Venom” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Blue Skies” (Diverse Energies)
• “Breaking All The Rules” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “The Crimson Cloak” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Rory Power

• “Sharp as Any Thorn” (At Midnight)

Maya Prasad

• “Princess” (Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA)

James Preller

• “The Mistake” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Natasha Preston

• “The New Next Door Boy” (Together, Apart)

Tirzah Price

• “Best In Show” (Rural Voices)

Liz Prince

• “So I Guess This Is Growing Up” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Sandra Proudman

• “Tesoro” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Isabel Quintero

• “Back of the Truck” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)
• “From Golden State” (Come On In)

Aamna Qureshi

• “A Cynic at Shaadi” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

NoNieqa Ramos

• “Evermore” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

CJ Redwine

• “These Broken Stars” (Welcome Home)

Amy Reed

• “Bless This Mess” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Dia Reeves

• “Chickie Hill’s Badass Ride” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “The Dark Side of the Moon” (Defy The Dark)

Beth Revis

• “Love is a Choice” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Night Swimming” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Other Elder” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• ”Pearls”  (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Sonora Reyes

• “Halloween Love” (Transmogrify!)

Jason Reynolds

• “Eraser Tattoo”  (Fresh Ink)
• “The Ingredients” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “A Recording for Carole Before It All Goes” (The Collectors)

Karuna Riazi

• “The Care and Keeping of Jealousy” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “Faithfull” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “L(Train)iminal” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “Plus One” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Randy Ribay

• “Effing Nico” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “The Snow-Covered Sidewalk” (Welcome Home)
• “The White Savior Does Not Save The Day” (The Collectors)

Debbie Rigaud

• “Voilà!” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Caroline Tung Richmond

• “The Coward’s Guide to Falling in Love” (Color Outside the Lines)
• ”The Red Raven Ball” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

William Ritter

• “Deeply” (Welcome Home)

Lilliam Rivera

• “My Perrero de Shame Playlist” (Body Talk)
• “More Than Nervios” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)
• “Salvation and the Sea” (Come On In)
• “Sugary Deaths” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “The Tin Man” (Reclaim the Stars)

Rebecca Roanhorse

• “The Boys From Blood River” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “The Takeback Tango” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “When Abigail Fields Recalls Her First Death, and Subsequently, Her Best Life” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Caleb Roehrig

• “Auld Acquaintance” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)
• “The Glittering Death” (His Hideous Heart)
• “What Happens in the Closet” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Matthue Roth

• “The Ambush” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)
• “Find the River” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “The Waitress” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Veronica Roth

• “Hearken” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Inertia” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Vim and Vigor”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Rainbow Rowell

• “Midnight” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Lance Rubin

• “Jewbacca” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Laura Ruby

• “Beastiary” (Vampires Never Get Old)

Meredith Russo

• “Coda” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Coronation” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “The Littlest Mermaid” (At Midnight)
• “Somewhere That’s Green” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Marie Rutkowski

• “Bride-Heart” (Eternally Yours)

Carrie Ryan

• “After the Cure” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Almost Normal” (Defy The Dark)
• “Bougainvillea” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Dream Eater” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Hare Moon” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “In the Forest Dark and Deep” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The Killing Garden” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Miasma” (Shards and Ashes)
• “That the Machine May Progress Eternally”(Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Laila Sabreen

• “The Final Countdown” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Sara Saedi

• “Sixty-Four Teeth” (Body Talk)

Aisha Saeed

• “The Smile” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Aminah Mae Safi

• “Be Cool For Once” (Fresh Ink)
• “Three Minutes” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Allison Saft

• “The Ghost on the Shore” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

Yamile Saied Mendez

• “All For One” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)
• “Family Everything” (Come On In)
• “Island Rodeo Queen” (Rural Voices)
• “La Madrina” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Real Talk” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “River People” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “Weeping Angels” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Sofia Samatar

• “Walkdog” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Liselle Sambury

• “All My Best Friends Are Dead” (All These Sunken Souls)

Alex Sanchez

• “The Secret Life of a Teenage Boy” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Lisa Ann Sandell

• “See Me” (21 Proms)

Kate Scelsa

• “The Coven” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Tiffany Schmidt

• “Anyone Other Than Me” (Behind The Song)

Eliot Schrefer

• “Player One Fight” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Gretchen Schreiber

• “The Story of a Knife” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Samantha Schutz

• “Picking” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Victoria Schwab/V.E. Schwab

• “Black Hole” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Death Knell” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “First Kill” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “A Royal Affair” (A Universe of Wishes)

Dana Schwartz

• “El Al 328” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Michael Scott

• “Deadwood” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Sarah Winifred Searle

• “Keagan’s Heaven on Earth” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Nora Shalaway Carpenter

• “Close Enough” (Rural Voices)
• “Spidey Sense” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Tarun Shanker

• “Giving Up the Ghost” with Kelly Zekas (Color Outside the Lines)

Tess Sharpe

• “The Girl With the Blue Lantern” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Heart in Her Hands” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Nisi Shawl

• “Otherwise” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Sara Shepard

• “The Intern” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Megan Shepherd

• “Hide and Seek” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Lady Firebrand” (The Radical Element)

Delia Sherman

• “Flying”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Witch in the Wood” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley

• “Severe Weather Warning” (That Way Madness Lies)

Adam Silvera

• “Happiness Goes On” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Something Gay and Magical” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “You, You, It’s All About You” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Laura Silverman

• “Be Brave and All” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Creature Capture” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “Do You See It Now?” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Tara Sim

• “Between Layers” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Death and the Maiden” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Hey There, Demons” (Night of the Living Queers)
• “One Spell Too Many” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “A Universe of Wishes” (A Universe of Wishes)

Francina Simone

• “Letters to Charlie Brown” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Jon Skovron

• “Love is the Last Resort” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “The Raven Princess”(Grim)
• “There’s Nowhere Else” (Defy The Dark)

Jordan Sonnenblick

• “The Sweeter the Sin” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Cynthia Leitich Smith

• “Cupid’s Beaux” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Haunted Love” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “The Wrath of Dawn” with Greg Leitich Smith (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Eric Smith 

• “The Ghosts of Christmas Past, or When The Angel Learned To Shave” (Body Talk)
• “In Pieces” (Welcome Home)
• “Irish Soda Bread” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Sandwiched in Between” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “The South Street Challenge” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “Truffles (or Don’t Worry, The Dog Will Be Fine)” (When We Become Ours)
• “Twenty Thousand Leagues Away From Me” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Jennifer E. Smith

• “A Thousand Ways This Could All Go Wrong” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)

Lindsay Smith

• ”City of Angels” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Death in the Sawtooths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Dreaming of the Dark” (That Way Madness Lies)

Jeri Smith-Ready

• “Bridge” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Figment” (Grim)
• “Thief” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Maria V Snyder

• “Berserker Eyes” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Sword Point” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Under Amber Skies” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Rachel Lynn Solomon

• “Aftershocks” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Jessica Spotswood

• “Beware of Girls with Crooked Mouths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”Madeleine’s Choice” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Step Right Up” (The Radical Element)

Lili St. Crow

• “Ambition” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Say Yes” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Courtney C. Stevens

• “Peace of Paper” (Welcome Home)

Maggie Stiefvater

• “The Hounds of Ulster” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Margaret Stohl

• “Death for the Deathless” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “IV League” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Necklace of Raindrops”(Shards and Ashes)
• “Sirocco” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

• “Sleeping with the Spirit” (Love Is Hell)

Nic Stone

• “Dream and Dare” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “Grounded” (Snow In Love)
• “Happy Beginning” (Welcome Home)
• “Into the Starlight” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Francisco X. Stork

• “The Call” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)
• “Brotherly Love” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Captain, My Captain” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Filberto’s Final Visit” (Living Beyond Borders)

Karen Strong

• “The Witch’s Skin” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Misa Sugiura

• “Where I’m From” (Come On In)

Nova Ren Suma

• “The Birds of Azalea Street” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The One Who Stayed” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Reading Worthy Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Twelve Frames”(It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Courtney Summers

• “The Likability Rule” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Sleepstalk” (Defy The Dark)

Sabaa Tahir

• “Waiting” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “What The Winds Stole” (Magic Has No Borders)

Robin Talley

• “The Dresser and The Chambermaid” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Legend of Stone Mary” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”The Whole World is Watching” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Liara Tamani

• “Stop Playing” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Sarvenaz Tash

• “The Belle of the Ball” (The Radical Element)

Laini Taylor

• “Gentlemen Send Phantoms” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Swati Teerdhala

• “Poetry of Earth” (Magic Has No Borders)

McCormick Templeman

• “A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Shveta Thakrar

• “Daughter of the Sun” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Krishna Blue”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Moonapple Menagerie” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “A Thousand Paper Cuts” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Trang Thanh Tran

• “Nine Stops” (Night of the Living Queers)

Kara Thomas

• “Fart From The Madding Crowd” (Body Talk)

Rosiee Thor

• “Well Suited” (Being Ace)

Vincent Tirado

• “The Black Strings” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)

Ari Tison

• “Blood Kin” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Isla Bella” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

• “Shark Week” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Sidelined” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Jenny Torres Sanchez

• “Donde Esta el Duende?” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Ring of Fire” (The Collectors)

Scott Tracey

• “Willows” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Gina Trelease

• “In the Forests of the Night” (At Midnight)

April Genevieve Tucholke

• “The Flicker, the Fingers, the Beat, the Sigh” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Indigo and Shade” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Catherynne M. Valente

• “In the Future When All’s Well” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Stefany Valentine

• “Almost Close Enough” (When We Become Ours)

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

• “Juana and the Fox Boy” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Carrie Vaughn

• “Now Purple With Love’s Wound” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Jessica Verday

• “At The Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Jessica Verdi

• “Starcrossed in DC” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Emily Victoria

• “Sealights” (Being Ace)

Debbie Viguie

• “Passing” with Nancy Holder  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Alexandra Villasante

• “Mucho, Mucho Amor” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “El Viejo de la Bolsa” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Prefiero No” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Rachel Vincent

• “Fearless” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Siobhan Vivian

• “Corny Won’t Kill Your Cred: Rearview Mirror Reflections on Feminism and Romance” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Ned Vizzini

• “Apology #1” (21 Proms)

Cecily Von Ziegesar

• “All She Wants” (21 Proms)

Adrienne Maria Vrettos

• “Mom Called, She Says You Have to Go to Prom” (21 Proms)

K.M. Walton

• “Doomed?” (Behind The Song)

Lesley Walton

• ”El Destinos” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Jasmine Warga

• “Searching” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)

Daniel Waters

• “Many Happy Returns” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Erica Waters

• “Stay” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

Kate Watson

• “The Take-Back” (Welcome Home)

Renee Watson

• “Letting Go” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Sarah Weeks

• “Superman is Dead” (Up All Night)

Elizabeth Wein

• ”The Color of the Sky” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Joelle Wellington

• “The Consumption of Vienna Montrose” (All These Sunken Souls)
• “Heavy Rotation” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Rebecca Kim Wells

• “Guested” (Night of the Living Queers)

Kasie West

• “Snow and Mistletoe” (Snow In Love)

Scott Westerfield

• “Definitional Chaos” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Inoculata” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Stupid Perfect World” (Love Is Hell)

Kayla Whaley

• “Broken Body, Worthless Girl, and Other Lies I Called The Truth” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “The Girl With The Teeth” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “In Kind” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “The Leap and the Fall” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “No Love Lost” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)
• “Old Rifts and Snowdrifts” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

Kiersten White

• “Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “Tick, Tick, Boom” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Welcome to Christmas, CA” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Fran Wilde

• “The Fall of the Bank of Usher” (His Hideous Heart)

Ismee Williams

• “Thicker Than Water” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)

Rita Williams

• “Whoa!” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Sean Williams

• “The Legend Trap” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Cat Winters

• “Emmeline” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Julian Winters

• “Coping With Impostor Syndrome” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “Our Joy, Our Power” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Under Our Masks” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “Victory Lap” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “We’ll Always Have June” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Who Will Save Me?” (Eternally Yours)

Ellen Wittlinger

• “The we-are-like-everybody-else-game” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Alyssa Wong

• “Olivia’s Table” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Ashley Woodfolk

• “The Curse of Love” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Chris Wooding

• “People Watching” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Jacqueline Woodson

• “Geechee Girls Dancing” (21 Proms)

Erika T. Wurth

• “Dear Teen Me: It Would Have Changed Everything; It Would Have Changed Nothing” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Kristine Wyllys

• “Ballad Of Weary Daughters” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Wendy Xu

• “The Memory of Soil” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)
• “The Princess and the Witch” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Gene Luen Yang

• “The Motherless One” (Up All Night)
• “Paladin/Samurai” (Fresh Ink)
• “Why I Won’t Be Watching the Last Airbender Movie” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Lisa Yee

• “Everyone But You”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Jennifer Yen

• “Love With A Side of Fortune” (Together, Apart)
• “A Perfect Fit” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Jane Yolen

• “Andersen’s Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Gray” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

David Yoo

• “Becoming Henry Lee” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Everyone’s Nice” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Nicola Yoon

• “The Department of Dead Love” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “Sera” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Super Human” (Fresh Ink)

Suzanne Young

• “The Ride” (Behind The Song)

Brenna Yovanoff

• “Daughters of Baba Yaga” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Vega” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Francesca Zappia

• “Game of the Gods” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “The Ghost of Goon Creek” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

Sara Zarr

• “This is My Audition Monologue” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Kelly Zekas

• “Giving Up the Ghost” with Tarun Shanker (Color Outside the Lines)

Gabrielle Zevin

• “Fan Fictions” (Love Is Hell)

Kat Zhang

• “And Then?” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Michelle Zink

• “The Assassin’s Apprentice” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Ibi Zoboi

• “Earth is Ghetto” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Haitian Sensation” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)
• “Hourglass” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “Kiss The Sun” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
• “The (R)evolution of Nigeria Jones” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Markus Zusak

• “The First Six Killers” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)