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    The winner of The Story Prize in 2023 is Ling Ma for Bliss Montage.

    Janet Manley
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    March 16, 2023, 11:10am

    Fans of Ling Ma’s Severence, rejoice: Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage: Stories, her second book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, last night won The Story Prize, which comes with a $20,000 purse.

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    The judges praised Ma’s achievements in the short story collection:

    Despite this blend and the often comical situations Ma’s characters find themselves in, these precise and skillful stories also reveal hard truths in a plain style that powerfully amplifies the shocks revealed.

    Runner-up prizes go to Andrea Barrett’s Natural History and Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez.

    You can watch the announcement here. Congratulations, Ling!

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