Philadelphia Stories anthology features the "best of" from the magazine and website based on a reader survey. Anthology authors include Greg Downs, winner of the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; Pushcart prize-nominees Curtis Smith and Randall Brown; Kathy Anderson, recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts award; Aimee LaBrie, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for short fiction; and Drue Heinz Prize-winner David Harris Ebenbach.