The Ultimate Updated Guide to YA Short Stories

In 2020, following several conversations with YA readers, authors, librarians, and educators, it became clear that one of the challenges of short stories in young adult literature was that finding those by your favorite author can be cumbersome. Many authors keep a list of their contributions to anthologies on their website, but no single catalog of short stories made it possible to find as much information as possible about this common story format in a single place. I put together the ultimate guide to YA short stories here to both facilitate finding the information and to highlight how many short stories are out there for teen and YA readers.

That guide to YA short stories ended with those published in 2019. Five years have elapsed since then—and for many of us, the longest five years of our lives—and dozens of new YA short story collections have been published. It seems only appropriate to expand upon that original guide.

I’ve scoured through YA anthologies past and present—up to those published prior to 2024—and pulled together an index to their contents by author. This is meant to help you seek out stories by your favorite authors,  with a guide to the books in which they appear.

The task of compiling this information is not quick, easy, or without limitation. This index to YA short stories does not include short stories which are interconnected in an anthology. That leaves out a few books, but not as many as one might anticipate. Shaun David Hutchinson’s anthologies and Hungry Hearts, edited by Elise Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond, are examples of this type of book. Those can and should get their own kind of recognition. This index also doesn’t include short story collections by a single author. Holly Black and Kelly Link are two, among many others, who’ve done solo short story collections. Likewise, the index does not include short stories only published online or in genre publications. Those are much more difficult to track down and are, again, worthy of their own compilation.

I’ve used my knowledge of YA to whittle down the index here to YA authors who are well-known, well-published, or new and emerging voices. Some haven’t yet published a YA title, while others haven’t done so in quite a while; YA authors who have only published in YA anthologies thus far are included if they’ve published several short stories. I’ve pulled from this list YA short stories by adult authors who haven’t written for YA otherwise unless they edited the collection. This is to keep the index limited to YA short stories by YA authors.

The short stories below are organized by the author’s last name. Each of the stories and their respective anthologies are listed below the author, and in cases where stories are co-authored, the story appears under both author names. I haven’t included descriptions of the story because that’s impossible without having read them all. But by including the book in which you can find the story, it should give a good idea of the themes the story might have. Perhaps it’ll encourage the ultimate goal of this project, which is to get more people excited to read short stories. After all, the 2024 Printz Award—the highest honor given to a work of young adult literature—was given for the first time to a collection of short stories, The Collectors edited by A. S. King.

Some of these books might be out of print since they’re beyond 10 years old. But chances are you can track them down at a library, and some of the authors may have republished these stories on their websites or elsewhere, depending on whether or not they own the republication rights.

Again, this isn’t comprehensive, but it is pretty robust and, I hope, useful for readers seeking YA short stories by their favorite YA writers.

Schuyler Bailar

• “Catch, Pull, Drive” (Fresh Ink)

Karen Bao

• “A Bridge Over Silence” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Tracey Baptiste

• “Gravity” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Kiss Me Goodbye” (Magic Has No Borders)

Leigh Bardugo

• “Head, Scales, Tongue, Tale” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Verse Chorus Verse” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

• “The Third Kind” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Christopher Barzak

• “Gap Year” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Melissa Bashardoust

• “Lost Girl” (That Way Madness Lies)

Kalynn Bayron

• “Lights” (All These Sunken Souls)
• “Nina Evans, In The Round” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Piano Sonata No. 13” (Eternally Yours)
• “Return to the Sea” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “The Visitor” (Night of the Living Queers)

Elizabeth Bear

• “The Salt Sea and The Sky” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Terry J. Benton-Walker

• “Requiem of Souls” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Fox Benwell

• “Once Upon a Seastorm” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “A Play In Many Parts” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Josh Berk

• “The Shift Sticks” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Tanaz Bhathena

• “A Goddess of Fire and Blood” (Magic Has No Borders)

Tashie Bhuiyan

• “Fate’s Favorites” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

James Bird

• “River Boy” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Holly Black

• “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Everything Amiable and Obliging” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “In Vodka Veritas” (21 Proms)
• “Krampuslauf” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Little Gods” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Millcara” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Once You’re a Jedi, You’re a Jedi all the Way” with Cecil Castellucci (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Perfect Dinner Party” with Cassandra Clare  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Kendare Blake

• “On the I-5” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “She Rode a Horse of Fire” (His Hideous Heart)
• “Undead Ghoul Meet-Cute” (Eternally Yours)

Francesca Lia Block

• “Lilith” (Kisses From Hell)
• “Sick Pleasure” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)

Coe Booth

• “Hackaton Summers” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Halfway” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Tonya Boteju

• “Floating” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Tori Bovalino

• “Loved By All, Save One” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

David Bowles

• “The Body By The Canal” (Living Beyond Borders)
• “A Border Kid Comes of Age” (Rural Voices)
• “The First Day of Us” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “This Mortal Coil” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Akemi Dawn Bowman

• “Across the Stars” (Being Ace)
• “The Chair Far Away From The Table” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)

Erin Bowman

• “The Magician” (The Radical Element)

Libba Bray

• “It’s Just a Jump to the Left” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Last Ride of the Glory Girls” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “Last Stand at the Cinegore” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Nowhere is Safe” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Not Just for Breakfast Anymore” (Up All Night)
• “Primate the Prom” (21 Proms)
• “Prom Night” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Rituals”((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health — edited by me)
• “The Scarlet Woman” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “The Thirteenth Step” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Sarah Rees Brennan

• “Beauty and the Chad”  (Grim)
• “Faint Heart” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “I Gave You My Love By The Light of the Moon” (Defy The Dark)
• “Let’s Get This Undead Show on the Road” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “The Spy Who Never Grew Up” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “Undead is Very Hot Right Now” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Zac Brewer

• “Misery”  (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Other Side” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Kevin Brooks

• “Jack And Dean” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Alex Brown

• “The Three Phases of Ghost Hunting” (Night of the Living Queers)
• “Truth or Dare” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

Jennifer Brown

• “But Not Forgotten” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Keah Brown

• “Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Roseanne A. Brown

• “Wolf Tracks” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Joseph Bruchac

• “Pull Up a Seat Around the Stove” (Rural Voices)
• “Ordinary Kid” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)

Elise Bryant

• “Betsy’s Best Craft” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Zora in the Spotlight” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Meg Cabot

• “The Exterminator’s Daughter” (Prom Nights From Hell)
• “Out of the Blue” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Princess Prettypants”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Rachel Caine

• “All Hallows”  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Automatic” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Dead Man Stalking” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Dogsbody” by Rachel Caine (Shards and Ashes)
• “Drama Queen’s Last Dance” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Patrice Caldwell

• “Elsinore” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “Letting The Right One In” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Rocky Callen

• “They Call Me The Hurricane” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

A. R. Capetta

• “Extremophiles” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)

A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy

• “Dragons Name Themselves” (Transmogrify!)
• “Some Other Metal” (That Way Madness Lies)

Rae Carson

• “Omega Ship” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Ally Carter

• “Star of Bethlehem”  (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Caela Carter

• “Up A Million” (Welcome Home)

Kiera Cass

• “In The Clearing” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Kristin Cast

• “Above” (Kisses From Hell)
• “Amber Smoke” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)

Cecil Castellucci

• “Best Friends Forever” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Marker”(After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Once You’re a Jedi, You’re a Jedi all the Way” with Holly Black  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Wet Teeth” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Brittany Cavallero

• “His Invitation” (That Way Madness Lies)

J.C. Cervantes

• “Eterno” (Reclaim the Stars)

Olivia Chadha

• “Infinite Drift” (Magic Has No Borders)
• “Petrified” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)

Soman Chainani

• “Gwen and Art and Lance” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Gloria Chao

• “Mystery Hunt” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Elsie Chapman

• “The Boy Is” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Bullet, Butterfly”  (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Erica M. Chapman

• “The Sign” (Welcome Home)

Sona Charaipotra

• “The Collector” (Magic Has No Borders)
• “Let It Spin” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “Still Star-Crossed” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “The Trip” (Come On In)

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

• “CoCo Chamoy y Chango” (Living Beyond Borders)
• “La Concha” (The Collectors)

Gina Chen

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

Cherry Cheva

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

Preeti Chhibber

• “The Dark Calls” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Unraveled” (Magic Has No Borders)

Kat Cho

• “Pierce My Soul” (Eternally Yours)

Roshani Chokshi

• “Forbidden Fruit” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Maybe It’s Maybelline, Or Maybe It’s Really Not Your Business” (Body Talk)

Nicole Chung

• “Catch” (When We Become Ours)

Rin Chupeco

• “The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” (His Hideous Heart)

Cassandra Clare

• “Brand New Attraction” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Cold Hands”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “I Never”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Mirror House” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Other Boys” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “The Perfect Dinner Party” with Holly Black (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “Some Fortunate Future Day” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

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

Dhonielle Clayton

• “Dear Nora James, You Know Nothing About Love” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Heads Turned to Ash” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
• “The House of Black Sapphires” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “The Trouble With Drowning” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Way We Love Here” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “The Weight” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “When the Moonlight Isn’t Enough” (The Radical Element)

J. Anderson Coats

• “Mother Careys Table” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Rebecca Coffindaffer

• “Storm Song” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Rachel Cohn

• “Prom for Fat Girls” (21 Proms)

Brandy Colbert

• “Good Luck and Farewell” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Hurdles” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Oreo” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “In Search of Sisterhood”(Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “The Truth About Queenie” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “What About Your Friends?” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

Jay Coles

• “Wild Horses, Wild Hearts” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Ally Condie

• “Leaving”  (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Dave Connis

• “A Kingdom Bright and Burning” (Welcome Home)

Zoraida Cordova

• “Conffessions of an Ecuadorkian” (Come On In)
• “Divine are the Stars” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Heart of the Sea” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)
• “Longer Than The Threads of Time” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “Tame The Wicked Night” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “Vampires Never Say Die” (Vampires Never Get Old)

Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker

• “The Merrow” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Eireann Corrigan

• “The Lost Chapter” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Rob Costello

• “The Hole of Dark Kill Hollow” (Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America)

Katie Cotugno

• “The Liberty Homes” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “Riddles in Mathematics” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Siege Etiquette” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Elizabeth Craft

• “You Are a Prom Queen, Dance Dance Dance” (21 Proms)

Erin A. Craig

• “Love Delivered” (Together, Apart)

Andrea Cremer

• “Afterbirth” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “High Stakes” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Mayra Cuevas

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

Julie C. Dao

• “Keeping The Joy of Writing” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “Six Thousand Miles” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Sayantani DasGupta

• “Daughter of the Sun” (Magic Has No Borders)

Somaiya Daud

• “A Hagiography of Starlight” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Jocelyn Davies

• “The Unlikely Likelihood of Falling in Love” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Ana Davila Cardinal

• “Dismembered” (Our Shadows Have Claws)

Charlotte Nicole Davis

• “All The Time in the World” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
• “Cadence” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)
• “Foxhunt” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)

g. heron davis

• “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power” (Transmogrify!)
• “Ruler and Killer” (All Signs Point to Yes)

Melissa de la Cruz

• “Code of Honor” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “The Magis Gifts” (Snow In Love)
• “Once Upon a Time in Charleston” (Eternally Yours)
• “One Voice”  (Fresh Ink)
• “Shelter Island” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “A Six-pack of Bud, a Fifth of Whiskey, and Me” (21 Proms)

Charles de Lint

• “Barrio Girls” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Mason Deaver

• “Genderella” (Transmogrify!)

Heather Demetrios

• “Three Imaginary Conversations with You” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Susan Dennard

• “Shirley and Jim” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Tracy Deonn

• “Catalyst Rising” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “The Emperor and the Eversong” (At Midnight)

Kimberly Derting

• “Light It Up” (Grim)
• “Skin Contact” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Auriane Desombre

• “The Rule of Comedy” (Together, Apart)

Ananya Devarajan

• “The Ultimate Guide to Orientation” (Study Break)

Kelly deVos

• “Outside Pitch” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Natasha Diaz

• “Caution Song” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)

Cory Doctorow

• “Clockwork Fagin” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Jaclyn Dolamore

• “The Airship Gemini” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Mayra Lazara Dole

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

Ryan Douglass

• “Knickknack” (Night of the Living Queers)
• “Papa Pearlie” (All These Sunken Souls)

Alechia Dow

• “We Are Stardust” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Kathleen Duey

• “The Third Virgin” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Jeanne DuPrau

• “Seekers in the City” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Helen Dunbar

• “The Inexplicable Weight of Mountains” (Welcome Home)

Corinne Duyvis

• “A Curse, a Kindness” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Madeline Dyer

• “Nylon Bed Socks” (Being Ace)

H.E. Edgmon

• “Mother’s Mirror” (At Midnight)

Daniel Ehrenhaft

• “Better Be Good to Me” (21 Proms)

Simon Elkeles

• “Fate” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Zetta Elliot

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

Sami Ellis

• “The Teeth Come Out at Night” (All These Sunken Souls)

Kate Ellison

• “Like Kicking a Fence” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Stephen Emond

• “The Night of the Living Creeper” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Sarah Enni

• “The Blessing of Little Wants” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Julie Eshbaugh

• “Webbed” (Welcome Home)

Elizabeth Eulberg

• “Aubrey vs. The Ninth Circle of Hell (aka Prom)” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “In The Blink of an Eye” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Desiree M. Evans

• “The Brides of Devil’s Bayou” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)
• “High Strangeness” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Hafsah Faizal

• “Bones and Blessings” (Eternally Yours)
• “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” (At Midnight)

Sara Faring

• “Moonglow” (Reclaim the Stars)

Sara Farizan

• “A Brief Intermission” (Night of the Living Queers)
• “Bunker Buddies” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)
• “The End of the World as We Know It” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Take Me with U”(The Radical Element)
• “The Wedding” (Come On In)
• “Why I Learned to Cook” (Fresh Ink)

Saracia J. Fennell

• “Cemetery Dance Party” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)
• “Goldi and the Three Bodies” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)
• “Half In, Half Out” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)

Becca Fitzpatrick

• “Dungeons Of Langeais” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Huntley Fitzpatrick

• “Say Everything” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Isaac Fitzsimons

• “Cole’s Cruise Bruise” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “One of the Good Ones” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Sharon G. Flake

• “A Boy’s Duty” (Fresh Ink)

Patrick Flores-Scott

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

Gayle Forman

• “What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Aimee Friedman

• “Three Fates” (21 Proms)
• “Working in a Winter Wonderland” (Snow In Love)

Neil Gaiman

• “Bloody Sunrise”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Sleeper and the Spindle” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Witch Work” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Eric Gansworth

• “Don’t Pass Me By”  (Fresh Ink)

Romina Garber

• “Leyenda” (Reclaim the Stars)

Kami Garcia

• “Burn 3” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Improbable Futures” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Red Run” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “The Soul Collector” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Guadalupe Garcia-Marquez

• “Ode to My Papi” (Living Beyond Borders)

Kati Gardner

• “And It’s Fine” (Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy)

Camryn Garrett

• “Ruby” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Sonia Gensler

• “Untethered” (Grim)

Lauren Gibaldi

• “Life: Starring Tallulah Grey” (Welcome Home)
• “What We Love” (Color Outside the Lines)

Shannon Gibney

• “The Mortification” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Oreo” (When We Become Ours)
• “Salvation” (Welcome Home)

Lamar Giles

• “Black. Nerd. Problems” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Drive Time” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “The Historian, the Garrison, and the Cantankerous Cat Woman” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Love to Hate” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “The Oval Filter” (His Hideous Heart)

Nikita Gill

• “Chudail” (Magic Has No Borders)

Kathleen Glasgow

• “Missing” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “Plum Girls” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Chloe Gong

• “Stet, Intentional” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “The Tallest Poppy” (The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror)
• “A Thousand More” (Eternally Yours)

Maurene Goo

• “A Bigger Tent” (Come On In)
• “Like Before” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

Juliana Goodman

• “One On One” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Courtney Gould

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

Steven Gould

• “Rust with Wings” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Michael Grant

• “This Is a Mortal Wound” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Tessa Gratton

• “Beast / Beast” (Grim)
• “Before She was Blood”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Beginning of Monsters” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “The King of Greenlight City”  (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Night-Tide” (His Hideous Heart)
• “Seven Nights for Dying” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “This Was Ophelia”(Defy The Dark)
• “Three Witches” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages)

Byron Graves

• “Something in September” (All Signs Point to Yes)

Claudia Gray

• “Bloodshed” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Free” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Giovanni’s Farewell” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “I Don’t Like Your Girlfriend” (Vacations From Hell)
• “A Real Boy” (Grim)

Monique Gray Smith

• “Filling The Net” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

John Green

• “Freak the Geek” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Great American Morp” (21 Proms)

I. W. Gregorio

• “Enough to Be a Real Thing” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Five Things People Want To Know About Their Junk (But Are Afraid To Ask)” (Body Talk)

Nikki Grimes

• “Avalanche” (Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes)

Bethany Hagen

• “Unus, Duo, Tres”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Erin Hahn

• “Masked” (Together, Apart)

Jenny Han

• “Polaris is Where You’ll Find Me” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Frances Hardinge

• “Payment Due” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Kim Harrison

• “Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Kate Hart

• “Cry Like A Girl” (Body Talk)
• “A Road of One’s Own” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “The Well Witch” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Brett Hartinger

• “The Question: A Play in One Act” (21 Proms)

Kika Hatzopoulou

• “Night Falls” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Rachel Hawkins

• “Eyes in the Dark” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Key” (Grim)

Joan He

• “Untold Rebellions: Character Agency Through the Lens of Collectivism” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Karen Healey

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

Heidi Heilig

• “The Boy and the Ball” (Vampires Never Get Old)
• “The Long Road” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “What We’re Born With and What We Pick Up Along the Way” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Leah Henderson

• “Power Ten in Two” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)
• “Warning: Color May Fade” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Sarah Henning

• “Better in the Long Run” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Christine Heppermann

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

Faith Erin Hicks

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

Tanuja Desai Hidier

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

Abigail Hing Wen

• “The Idiom Algorithm” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)

Amanda Hocking

• “The Pink” (Grim)

Nancy Holder

• “Changed” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Letters to Romeo” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Pale Rider” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Passing” with Debbie Viguie (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Ellen Hopkins

• “Before the Rose Bloomed” (Grim)
• “Tiffany Twisted” (Behind The Song)

Nalo Hopkinson

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

Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

• “The Perils of Beige” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)

A.G. Howard

• “Stitches” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

James Howe

• “How Miracles Begin” (Behind The Song)

June Hur

• “Jinju’s Pearls” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Shaun David Hutchinson

• “Better” (Grim)
• “Defying Definition” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Inferno and the Butterfly” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Spite and Malice” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Jennifer Iacopelli

• “Safe At Home” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Isabel Ibanez

• “Rogue Enchantments” (Reclaim the Stars)

Jordan Ifueko

• “Spirit-Filled” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Justina Ireland

• “Black Pride” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)
• “Dread South” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Kissing Sarah Smart” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Melie” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Meredith Ireland

• “The Star of Ruin” (When We Become Ours)

Kosoko Jackson

• “Picking an Idea to Focus On” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)
• “A Pound of Flesh” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “Rocky Road with Caramel Drizzle” (Night of the Living Queers)

Tiffany D. Jackson

• “It’s Carnival!”  (His Hideous Heart)
• “Shark Bait” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)

S. Jae-Jones

• “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Michelle Jaffe

• “Kiss and Tell” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Adiba Jaigidar

• “The Publishing Rollercoaster: Navigating the Highs and Lows” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Zakiya N. Jamal

• “Cuban Impostor Syndrome” (Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed)

Brian James

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

Emiko Jean

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

N. K. Jemisin

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

Kelly Jensen

• “The Light Bulb, the Broom, and the Work They Don’t Tell You about” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Not By The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin” (Body Talk)
• “Owning My Feminism”(Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Alaya Dawn Johnson

• “A Hundred Thousand Threads” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Rules of the Land” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)

Christine Johnson

• “Shadowed” (Defy The Dark)
• “Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tongue” (Grim)

Leah Johnson

• “Anyone Else But You” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)
• “Corner Booth” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Maureen Johnson

• “The Children of the Revolution” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Law of Suspects”  (Vacations From Hell)

Varian Johnson

• “Black Enough”  (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Knight’s Gambit” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “Like Me” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “A Thousand Words” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

E.K. Johnston

• “Work in Progress” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal

• “World of Wonder” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)

Amanda Joy

• “Hell Week” (Game On: 15 Tales of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between)
• “Kiss The Boy” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “The Panel Shows The Girl” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)

Susan Juby

“Flattened” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Julie Kagawa

• “The Brothers Piggett” (Grim)
• “Eyes like Candlelight” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Naomi Kanakia

• “Next Door” (Diverse Energies)
• “Spear Carrier” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Two Girls Walk Into a Wrestling Match” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Lydia Kang

• “Yuna and the Wall” (Color Outside the Lines)

Claire Kann

• “Guilt Trip” (Every Body Shines: 16 Stories About Living Fabulously Fat)

Sheba Karim

• “On Your Own Level” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Anahita Karthik

• “A Very Bloody Kalyanam” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

Michelle Ruiz Keil

• “Gilman Street” (Color Outside the Lines)

Miranda Kenneally

• “Woman Land” (Out Of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports)

Beth Kephart

• “The Opposite of Ordinary” (Behind The Song)

Kody Keplinger

• “Britt And The Bike God” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “The Choice Is Yours” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Walking After Midnight” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Adib Khorram

• “Kiss The boy” (Eternally Yours)

Caitlin R. Kiernan

• “Fake Plastic Trees” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Behind the Red Door” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “The Vast Machinery of Dreams” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

A. S. King

• “Smile River” (Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions)
• “We Are Looking for Home” (The Collectors)

Ellen Klages

• “The Education of a Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Elizabeth Knox

• “Gethsemane” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Ron Koertge

• “Call Me!” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Ron Koertge

“Baby” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

E.M. Kokie

• “Quick Change” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Bill Konigsburg

• “The Socially-Distant Dog Walking Brigade” (Together, Apart)

Will Kostakis

• “Follower” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Jay Kristoff

• “Sleepless” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Stephanie Kuehn

• “Being Heard and Hating Sound” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Happy Days, Sweetheart” (His Hideous Heart)

Ellen Kushner

• “The Threefold World” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Naz Kutub

• “The Hawk’s Reason” (Magic Has No Borders)

Nina LaCour

• “The End of Love” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “A Place to Start” (Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunrise and Sunset)
• “Print Shop” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Margo Lanagan

• “Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “A Thousand Flowers”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Justine Larbalestier

• “Thinner Than Water” (Love Is Hell)
• “When I Was White” (Come On In)

Estelle Laure

• “Home Waits” (Rural Voices)

James Lecesne

• “Still Not Dead” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

C. B. Lee

• “Lumber Me Mine” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)

Emery Lee

• “The Cure for Heartbreak” (All Signs Point to Yes)
• “The Door to the Other Side” (Transmogrify!)

Lori M. Lee

• “Starlight and Moondust” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Steel Skin” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Mackenzi Lee

• “Burnt Umber” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “You’re a Stranger Here” (The Radical Element)

Stacey Lee

• “Fire & Rhinest One” (At Midnight)
• “Land of the Sweet, Home of the Brave” (The Radical Element)

Tanith Lee

• “Felidis” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Table Manners” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Why Light?” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Y.S. Lee

• ‘The Legendary Garrett Girls” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

David Levithan

• “The Hold” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Lost Sometimes” (21 Proms)
• “Quiz Bowl Antichrist” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Take It From Me” (The Collectors)
• “The Vulnerable Hours” (Up All Night)
• “Your Temporary Santa” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Christina Li

• “Begin Again” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Elie Lichtenschein

• “He Who Revives the Dead” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Roselle Lim

• “Just a Little Bite” (At Midnight)
• “The Taste of a Kiss” (All Signs Point to Yes)

Kelly Link

• “The Lady and the Fox” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Secret Identity” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Summer People” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Rachael Lippincott

• “Scoliosis, Spinal Fusion, and Stomach Punches” (Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy)
• “Stuck With Her” (Together, Apart)

Darcie Little Badger

• “Coyote in High Top Sneakers” (At Midnight)
• “The Deepwater Van-Dal” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Perseverance” (Writing In Color: The Lessons We’ve Learned)

Lesley Livingston

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

Emily Lloyd-Jones

• “A Drop of Stolen Ink” (His Hideous Heart)

Malinda Lo

• “A Flame So Bright” (At Midnight)
• “Forever Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Ghost Town” (Defy The Dark)
• “Good Girl” (Diverse Energies)
• “Meet Cute” (Fresh Ink)
• “New Year” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “One True Love” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Twelfth Girl” (Grim)

Katherine Locke

• “Nor’easter” (Mermaids Never Drown)
• “Per Aspera Ad Astra” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Seditious Teapots” (Out Now: Queer We Go Again)
• “Some Days You’re the Sidekick; Some Days You’re the Superhero” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

E. Lockhart

• “How I Wrote to Today” (21 Proms)

Alex London

• “HEA” (At Midnight)
• “Indoor Kids” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Katherine Longshore

• “Hard Times” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Emery Lord

• “The Five People You Overhear When Depressed at the Van Gogh Exhibit” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Gherin Girls”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Oomph” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

amanda lovelace

• “The Raven (Remix)” (His Hideous Heart)

Marie Lu

• “The Girl Without a Face” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• ‘The Journey” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Elisa Ludwig

• “About You Now” (Behind The Song)

Barry Lyga

• “Power Baby Blue Grows Up” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “The Truth about Dino Girl” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Chris Lynch

• “Lucky Buoy” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Jonathan Maberry

• “Fat Girl With a Knife” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “You Know Something’s Happening Here” (Behind The Song)

Samantha Mabry

• “We Fail” (That Way Madness Lies)

David Macinnis Gill

• “Praise the Lord and Pass The Little Debbies” (Rural Voices)

Torrey Maldonado

• “Different” (Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities)
• “Trespassers Will Be…” (Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories)

Karen Mahoney

• “Falling to Ash” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “The Spirit Jar” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Sangu Mandanna

• “Dismantle the Sun” (Magic Has No Borders)
• “Five Times Shiva Met Harry” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Upon the Horizon’s Verge” (Welcome Home)

Kekla Magoon

• “For a Moment, Underground” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Makeshift” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)
• “Out of the Silence” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• ”Pulse of the Panthers” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Kerry Maniscalco

• “The Nightingale’s Lament” (Mermaids Never Drown)

Racquel Marie

• “La Patasola” (Our Shadows Have Claws)
• “Sophomore Slump” (Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation)

Melissa Marr

• “Awakened” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Corpse Eaters” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Love Struck” (Love Is Hell)
• “Transition” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Zoe Marriott

• “Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Syed M. Masood

• “Sehra” (My Big Fat Desi Wedding)

Wendy Mass

• “The Stars at the Finish Line” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Elizabeth May

• “Why they Watch Us Burn” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Kwame Mbalia

• “Honor Code” (Cool. Awkward. Black.)
• “Liberia” (A Universe of Wishes)

Lish McBride

• “We Should Get Jerseys ‘Cause We Make a Good Team” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Sarah McCarry

• “Girl Lessons” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Cory McCarthy

• “Museum of Misery” (The Collectors)

Patricia McCormick

• “Orange Alert” (Up All Night)
• “Smoking Lessons” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Joy McCullough

• “Out of the Storm” (That Way Madness Lies)

Myra McEntire

• “Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Naughty or Nice” (Defy The Dark)

Katharine McGee

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

Mindy McGinnis

• “Census Man” (Welcome Home)

L.L. McKinney

• “The Goddess Provides” (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
• “Harvesters” (The Black Girl Survives In This One)
• “Your Life Matters” (Color Outside the Lines)

Anna-Marie McLemore

• “The Blood On My Hands” (Body Talk)
• “La Bruja y La Sierna” (Eternally Yours)
• “Cristal y Ceniza” (A Universe of Wishes)
• “Glamour” (The Radical Element)
• “King of the Fairies” (That Way Madness Lies)
• “Liberty” (Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed)
• “Love Spell”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Play House” (The Collectors)
• “Queeros and Villains” (Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes)
• “Reign of Diamonds” (Reclaim the Stars)
• “Roja” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Sugar Plum” (At Midnight)
• “Turn the Sky to Petals” (Color Outside the Lines)