Lineage Lists

Short Story Collections Published By Black Americans in Decade: 2020s

  1. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
  2. Love and Other Criminal Behavior by Nikki Dolson
  3. Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas
  4. Stateway’s Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
  5. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
  6. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
  7. Dance on Saturday: Stories by Elwin Cotman
  8. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
  9. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  10. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  11. Reconstruction by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  12. Broken Fevers by Tenea D. Johnson
  13. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  14. Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
  15. Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories by Toni Ann Johnson
  16. Witness by Jamel Brinkley
  17. The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
  18. House Gone Quiet: Stories by Kelsey Norris
  19. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
  20. Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman
  21. Kin: Practically True Stories (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by V Efua Prince
  22. Make Your Way Home: Stories by Carrie R. Moore
  23. There’s Nothing Left for You Here: Stories by Allegra Solomon
  24. But Where’s Home?: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson
  25. Mojorhythm by Sheree Renée Thomas
  26. Martha’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories by David Haynes
  27. Desperate Bodies: Stories by Lydia Mathis
  28. When It Gets Cold in the South: Stories by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
  29. Starlite/Astro/Galaxy by LaToya Watkins