Nominees announced for $20,000 Story Prize

(AP) — A trio of debut collections are finalists for the Story Prize, a $20,000 award for outstanding short fiction.

Prize organizers announced Tuesday that the nominees are "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders," by Daniyal Mueenuddin, a finalist last fall for the National Book Award; Victoria Patterson's "Drift"; and Wells Tower's "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned."

The winner will be announced March 3. Previous recipients of the prize, founded in 2004, include Tobias Wolff and Edwidge Danticat.