Congratulations to Ben Stroud!

Ben Stroud’s brilliant debut collection Byzantium, is the winner of this year’s Story Prize Spotlight Award. The collection is “a remarkable debut collection that spans continents and eras, from 7th Century Constantinople to post-Katrina Texas,” says The Story Prize.

You can read the title story in Electric Literature no. 4, and read our review of Byzantium here.

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