Publication history of select short stories by black writers

By Kenton Rambsy

1898 (July) - Charles Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

1925 (February) - Rudolph Fisher’s “The City of Refuge” first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

1925- Zora Neale Hurston’s “Spunk” first appeared in the The New Negro.

1926- Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” first appeared in Fire!!.

1936- Richard Wright’s “Big Boy Leaves Home” first appeared in The New Caravan.

1944- Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Lived Underground” in Cross Section.

1947 (October) - Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” first appeared in Horizon.

1957- James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” first appeared in Partisan Review.

1963 (August) - Ernest J. Gaines’s “The Sky is Gray” first appeared in Negro Digest.

1966- Henry Dumas’s “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” first appeared in Negro Digest.

1967 – Amiri Baraka’s “The Screamers” first appeared in The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America.

1971 Toni Cade Bambara’s “Raymond’s Run” first appeared in Tales and Short Stories of Black Folks.

1972- Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson” first appeared in Gorilla My Love.

1973- Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” first appeared in In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women.

1977 (August)- Charles Johnson’s “The Education of Mingo” first appeared in Mother Jones.

1983- Paule Marshall’s “Reena” first appeared in Reena and Other Stories.

1983- Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” first appeared in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women.

1984- Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” first appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.

2001 (October 1) - Edwidge Danticat’s “Seven” first appeared in The New Yorker.

2004 (May 3) - Edward P. Jones’s “Old Boys, Old Girls” first appeared in The New Yorker.

Related:
• A notebook on short stories by black writers