The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers, it has since become a significant proving ground for newcomers. It is awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...

s. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract. The Press occasionally selects more than two winners. Starting in 2016, there was only one winner per competition cycle.

Winners

* 1983 David Walton for ''Evening Out'' * 1983

Leigh Allison Wilson Leigh Allison Wilson, (born October 23, 1957) is an American short story writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in ''Harper's'', ''Grand Street'', and the ''Southern Review''. Her story "Bullhead" was read on National Public Radio in 2008. B ...

for ''From the Bottom Up'' * 1984 Mary Hood for ''How Far She Went'' * 1984 Sandra Thompson for ''Close-Ups'' * 1984

Susan Neville Susan Neville (born January 4, 1951 Indianapolis, Indiana) is a short story writer, essayist and professor, known for her work exploring Indiana and the Midwest. Life She graduated from DePauw University in 1973. In 1976, she graduated from ...

for ''The Invention of Flight'' * 1985 Daniel Curley ''Living with Snakes'' * 1985 François Camoin for ''Why Men are Afraid of Women'' * 1985

Molly Giles Molly Giles (born in 1942) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at the University of Arkansas. She formerly taught at San Francisco State University. She is the author of ''Creek Walk and Other Stories'' () published in 1997 a ...

for ''Rough Translations'' * 1986

Peter Meinke Peter Meinke (born 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and author. He has published 18 books of poems and short stories. ''The Piano Tuner'', won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, ...

for ''The Piano Tuner'' * 1986

Tony Ardizzone Anthony V. Ardizzone (born 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor. Biography Ardizzone was raised on the North Side of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana– ...

for '' The Evening News'' * 1987

Melissa Pritchard Melissa Pritchard (née Brown) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist. Life Melissa Brown was born on December 12, 1948 in San Mateo, California. She grew up in San Mateo, Burlingame and Menlo Park and attended ...

for ''Spirit Seizures'' * 1987 Salvatore La Puma for ''The Boys of Bensonhurst'' * 1988

Gail Galloway Adams Gail Galloway Adams (born 1943) is an American short story writer, and editor. Life She grew up in Central Texas. She taught at West Virginia University, retiring in 2008. She edited ''Arts & Letters''. Her work appeared in ''Kenyon Review'', ...

for ''The Purchase of Order'' * 1988

Philip F. Deaver Philip F. Deaver (1946–2018) was an American writer and poet from Tuscola, Illinois. His work appeared in literary magazines, including The New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Frostproof Review, the Florida Review, Poetry Miscellany and ...

for ''Silent Retreats'' * 1989 Carol L. Glickfeld for ''Useful Gifts'' * 1990

Antonya Nelson Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories. Life and education Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas. She received a BA degree from the U ...

for ''The Expendables'' * 1990

Debra Monroe Debra Monroe is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. She has written seven books, including two story collections, a collection of essays, two novels, and two memoirs, and is also editor of an anthology of nonfiction. ...

for ''The Source of Trouble'' * 1990

Nancy Zafris Nancy Zafris is an American novelist and short story writer. She has won individual artist's grants, from the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. She was a senior Fulbright fellow, and taught ...

for ''The People I Know'' * 1991 Robert H. Abel for ''Ghost Traps'' * 1991 T. M. McNally for ''Low flying Aircraft'' * 1992

Alfred DePew Alfred DePew is an American-born Canadian short story writer, and journalist. Life He grew up in St. Louis. He taught at Maine College of Art. He lived in Portland, Maine. In 2006, he moved to Vancouver. He writes for the Vancouver Observer ...

for ''The Melancholy of Departure'' * 1992

Dennis Hathaway Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometim ...

for ''The Consequences of Desire'' * 1993

Alyce Miller Alyce Miller is an American writer who currently lives in the DC Metro area.''Poets & Writers'' Directory of Writers > Alyce Miller Biography She was born in Zürich, Switzerland and lived "most of her life"Author Website > Bio in the San Fran ...

for ''The Nature of Longing'' * 1993

Dianne Nelson Dianne Nelson Oberhansly (born 1954 Utah) is an American short story writer. She was raised in Nevada, Kansas, and Arizona, and graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. and M.F.A. She has taught widely in public schools and private ...

for ''A Brief History of Male Nudes in America'' * 1995

C. M. Mayo C.M. Mayo is an American literary journalist, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, poet, podcaster and noted literary translator of contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry. For various literary magazines and anthologies, she has translated ...

for ''Sky Over El Nido'' * 1996

Ha Jin Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life Ha Jin was born in L ...

for ''Under the Red Flag'' * 1996

Paul Rawlins Paul Rawlins (born c. 1965) is an American short story writer, and editor. Life He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA, 1989, and an MA, 1992. His fiction appeared in ''Glimmer Train'', ''Southeast Review'', ''Sycamore Review'', ''T ...

for ''No Lie Like Love'' * 1996

Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction and an Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her shor ...

for ''Large Animals in Everyday Life'' * 1998 Frank Soos for ''Unified Field Theory'' * 1999

Hester Kaplan Hester Margaret Kaplan is an American short story writer, and novelist. Life Kaplan was born to a Jewish family, the daughter of novelist Anne (née Bernays) and author Justin Kaplan. Her maternal grandparents were Doris Fleischman and Edward ...

for ''The Edge of Marriage'' * 1999

Mary Clyde Mary Clyde (born February 19, 1953 in Provo, Utah) is an American short story writer, author of ''Survival Rates'' (W.W. Norton, 2001), which won the 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. Clyde was pra ...

for ''Survival Rates'' * 2000 Robert Anderson for ''Ice Age'' * 2000 Darrell Spencer for ''Caution: Men in Trees'' * 2001

Bill Roorbach Bill Roorbach (born August 8, 1953 Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. Roorbach has authored fiction and nonfiction works including ''Big Bend,'' which won the Fl ...

for ''Big Bend'' * 2001 Dana Johnson for ''Break Any Woman Down'' * 2002 Kellie Wells for ''Compression Scars'' * 2002 Rita Ciresi for ''Mother Rocket'' * 2003 Catherine Brady for ''Curled in the Bed of Love'' * 2003 Ed Allen for ''Ate It Anyway'' * 2004 No award (award to

Brad Vice Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is an English language and composition professor at the University of West Bohemia. He grew up in Alabama. His short story collection, ''The Bear Bryant Funeral Train'', won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short ...

rescinded due to a plagiarism scandal) * 2005

David Crouse David Crouse (born 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery ...

for ''Copy Cats'' * 2006 Greg Downs for ''Spit Baths'' * 2007

Anne Panning Anne Panning is an American writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She teaches English at State University of New York at Brockport and co-directs the Brockport Writers Forum. Biography Anne Panning grew up in Arlington, Minnesota and attended ...

for ''

Super America ''Super America'' is the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award winning short story collection by Anne Panning Anne Panning is an American writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She teaches English at State University of New York at Brockport and co-di ...

'' * 2007

Margot Singer Margot Singer is an American short story writer and novelist. Her book ''The Pale of Settlement'' won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2006 and her novel ''Underground Fugue'' was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by wom ...

for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * 2007

Peter LaSalle Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist. Life He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1972. His books include the novels ''Maripos ...

for ''Tell Borges If You See Him'' * 2008

Andrew J. Porter Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer. Life Porter was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Porter lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is Professor of Engli ...

for ''The Theory of Light and Matter'' * 2008

Peter Selgin Peter Selgin (; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Biography The son of ...

for ''Drowning Lessons'' * 2009 Geoffrey Becker for ''Black Elvis'' * 2009 Lori Ostlund ''The Bigness of the World'' * 2010 Jessica Treadway for ''Please Come Back to Me'' * 2010 Linda L. Grover for ''The Dance Boots'' * 2011

Amina Gautier Amina Gautier is an American writer and academic. She is the author of three short story collections, many individual stories, as well as works of literary criticism. Early life and education Gautier was born and raised in New York. After partici ...

for ''At-Risk'' * 2011

Melinda Moustakis Melinda is a feminine given name. Etymology The modern name ''Melinda'' is a combination of "Mel" with the suffix "-inda". "Mel" can be derived from names such as Melanie meaning "dark, black" in Greek, or from Melissa (μέλισσα) meanin ...

for ''Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories'' * 2012 E.J. Levy for ''Love, In Theory'' * 2012 Hugh Sheehy for ''The Invisibles'' * 2013 Jacqueline Gorman for ''The Viewing Room'' * 2013 Tom Kealey for ''Thieves I've Known'' * 2014 Karin Lin-Greenberg for ''Faulty Predictions'' * 2014 Monica McFawn for ''Bright Shards of Someplace Else'' * 2014 Toni Graham for ''The Suicide Club'' * 2015 Anne Raeff for ''The Jungle Around Us'' * 2015 Lisa Graley for ''The Current that Carries'' * 2016 Becky Mandelbaum for ''Bad Kansas'' * 2017

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (born March 17, 1979 in Chicago) is an American writer and academic. She is presently a faculty member in Antioch University's Creative Writing Program. Her 2018 short story collection, ''What We Do With the Wreckage'' ...

for ''What We Do With the Wreckage'' * 2018 Colette Sartor for ''Once Removed'' * 2019 Patrick Earl Ryan for ''If We Were Electric'' * 2020 Kate McIntyre for ''Mad Prairie'' * 2021

Toni Ann Johnson Toni Ann Johnson is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. Early life and education Toni Ann Johnson grew up in Monroe, New York, and the Greenwich Village area of New York City. During high school she was a student at the Lee Stra ...

for ''Light Skin Gone to Waste''

Finalists

* 2009

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for ''Arrangements''

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* {{Works by Flannery O'Connor, state=collapsed University of Georgia Awards established in 1983 Short story awards Novella awards American fiction awards

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