All This Want

Name: All This Want
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ISBN: 9798217154074

and I Can't Get None

T. Clark

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One World Books
28 July 2026

Short stories

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer

Set mostly in and around a small working class neighborhood, Clark explores the lives of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters, slicing through the filmy veil between adolescence and adulthood; between who they've been, and who they might become.

D'asia's friendship with a school security guard is teetering close to inappropriate. Chrissy is looking to play roulette on a trip with her boyfriend but ends up in a hotel room with two strangers. Juju's mother dresses her up for a meeting with a local music producer. A little sister cringes as a friend tries to hook up with her older brother. A fight breaks out at a party and the video goes viral. A woman can't stop walking by her ex's window, hoping to catch a glimpse of all she lost.

With sharp sentences and great affection, Clark excavates the push and pull of desire and power running beneath tender and bare moments.

By: T. Clark
Imprint: One World Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 344g
ISBN: 9798217154074
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 28 July 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

T Clark is from Westchester County, New York. They received BAs in sociology and English from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and an MFA in fiction from Indiana University in Bloomington. They were the recipient of a ""Writer in the World"" fellowship in Nepal, a Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Fiction, a Newport News Public Library short story award, and a Mitchell Adelmann award in Fiction. They have received support and fellowships from the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and The Vermont Studio Center. Their fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. They teach and write in New Orleans.

Reviews for All This Want (and I Can't Get None)

“The collection I’ve been praying for. One that keeps it real, lets people be hot, bothered, messy, unrelieved, funny, and profound. In All This Want (and I Can’t Get None), Clark trades in the rose-colored glasses for something more authentic: first rate stories of young men and women coming to epiphanies in their pursuit of a warm body to kiss.”—Sidik Fofana, Stories From the Tenants Downstairs