Short stories by Leigh Newman

Leigh Newman's memoir about Alaska, Still Points North (Dial, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard prize. Her short stories have appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, One StoryTin House, and McSweeney’s. _She is the winner of the _Paris Reviews’s _2020 Terry Southern Prize for “humor, wit, and sprezzatura” and her story “Howl Palace” was selected for 2020 Best American Short Stories, as well as won the 2020 Pushcart prize and the _Paris Review’s ASME-winning award for fiction. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in _ The New York Times, Bookforum, Vogue, O The Oprah Magazine, and other magazines. She has taught creative writing at Pratt, Sarah Lawrence, and New York University and has received fellowships from Yaddo, Breadloaf, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the former books editor of Oprah.com, the co-founder of Black Balloon/Catapult Publishing, and is now the senior editor-at-large at Catapult. Soon to come: the story collection _Nobody Gets out Alive (Scribner, April 2022)

Listing 2 stories.

A woman frantically prepares for an open house, but things go awry as revelations about her past marriages and identity arise.

Two sisters try to put their family—and their memories—on the right track.