For the Rest of Us: 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons

Fourteen acclaimed authors showcase the beautiful and diverse ways holidays are observed in this festive anthology. Keep the celebrations going all year long with this captivating and joyful read!

From Lunar New Year to Solstice, Día de Los Muertos to Juneteenth, and all the incredible days in between, it's clear that Americans don't just have one holiday. Edited by the esteemed Dahlia Adler and authored by creators who have lived these festive experiences firsthand, this joyful collection of stories shows that there isn't one way to experience a holiday.

With stories by:

Dahlia Adler, Sydney Taylor Honor winner of Going Bicoastal

Candace Buford, author of Good as Gold

A. R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy, authors of the Once & Future series

Preeti Chhibber, author of Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot

Natasha Díaz, award-winning author of Color Me In

Kelly Loy Gilbert, Stonewall Book Award winning author of Picture Us in the Light

Kosoko Jackson, USA Today bestselling author of The Forest Demands Its Due

Aditi Khorana, award-winning author of Mirror in the Sky

Katherine Locke, award-winning author of This Rebel Heart

Abdi Nazemian, Stonewall Book Award-winning author of Only This Beautiful Moment

Laura Pohl, New York Times bestselling author of The Grimrose Girls

Sonora Reyes, Pura Belpré Honor winner of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

Karuna Riazi, contributor to The Grimoire of Grim Fates

Sonora Reyes is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, The Luis Ortega Survival Club, and The Broposal. Born and raised in Arizona, they write fiction celebrating queer and Mexican stories in a variety of genres, across ages. Outside of writing, Sonora loves breaking their body and vocal cords by playing with their baby niblings and dancing/singing karaoke at the same time.

A. R. Capetta is an award-winning and bestselling author of wild magic. A. R.'s next release is Costumes for Time Travelers, a cozy romantic fantasy coming May 2025. Other magic-infused novels include The Lost Coast, The Brilliant Death, Lambda Literary Award winner The Heartbreak Bakery, and the national bestseller Once & Future, coauthored with spouse Cory McCarthy. A. R.'s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. For young readers, A. R. pens the Hocus and Pocus series.

Kelly Loy Gilbert is the author of Picture Us in the Light, a Stonewall Honor Book and LA Times Book Prize finalist; Conviction, a Morris Award finalist; and, most recently, Everyone Wants to Know. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.