The Story Prize · award year
The Story Prize 2008
The 2008 Story Prize went to Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard. 3 books were finalists.
Winner
- Like You'd Understand, Anywaysource (opens in a new tab)
Finalists
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Curessource (opens in a new tab)
- Sunstroke and Other Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
About the The Story Prize
Winner and two finalists for the year's best short story collection, plus The Story Prize Spotlight Award (first given in the 2012/13 season), filed under the same season year, from the prize's season pages on thestoryprize.org. Year is the year the winner is announced: the 2005/06 season (books published in 2005) is 2006, the 2024/25 season is 2025. The 2025/26 season falls outside 2006-2025. Two title typos on the pages (Goodnght, This is How Your Lose Her) are corrected.
Organization: The Story Prize. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- National Book Awards 10 shared books
- Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 8 shared books
- Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 8 shared books
- PEN America Literary Awards 8 shared books
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 6 shared books