Lineage Lists

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

  1. Reconstruction by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  2. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
  3. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  4. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
  5. Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas
  6. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  7. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
  8. Broken Fevers by Tenea D. Johnson
  9. Love and Other Criminal Behavior by Nikki Dolson
  10. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
  11. Dance on Saturday: Stories by Elwin Cotman
  12. Stateway’s Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
  13. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  14. Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman
  15. The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
  16. But Where’s Home?: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson
  17. When It Gets Cold in the South: Stories by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
  18. Mojorhythm by Sheree Renée Thomas
  19. Witness by Jamel Brinkley
  20. Kin: Practically True Stories (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by V Efua Prince
  21. Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
  22. Martha’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories by David Haynes