The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the

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named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist

Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern literature, Southe ...

. 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 A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

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 for ''From the Bottom Up'' * 1984

Mary Hood Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is a fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections – ''How Far She Went,'' ''And Venus is Blue'' and ''A Clear View of the South ...

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 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 for '' The Evening News'' * 1987 Melissa Pritchard for ''Spirit Seizures'' * 1987 Salvatore La Puma for ''The Boys of Bensonhurst'' * 1988 Gail Galloway Adams 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 for ''The Expendables'' * 1990 Debra Monroe for ''The Source of Trouble'' * 1990 Nancy Zafris for ''The People I Know'' * 1991 Robert H. Abel for ''Ghost Traps'' * 1991 T. M. McNally for ''Low flying Aircraft'' * 1992 Alfred DePew for ''The Melancholy of Departure'' * 1992 Dennis Hathaway for ''The Consequences of Desire'' * 1993

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for ''The Nature of Longing'' * 1993 Dianne Nelson 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 ...

for ''Under the Red Flag'' * 1996 Paul Rawlins for ''No Lie Like Love'' * 1996 Wendy Brenner for ''Large Animals in Everyday Life'' * 1998

Frank Soos Frank Soos (1950 – August 18, 2021) was an American short story writer. Life Soos grew up in Pocahontas, Virginia. He graduated from Davidson College in 1972 and the University of Arkansas. He taught at University of Alaska Fairbanks. His wor ...

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 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 F ...

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 Shor ...

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 Flanne ...

for ''Copy Cats'' * 2006

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for ''Spit Baths'' * 2007 Anne Panning for '' Super America'' * 2007 Margot Singer 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 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 for ''At-Risk'' * 2011 Melinda Moustakis 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 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 Kate name may refer to: People and fictional characters * Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer * Lauren Kate (born 1981), American autho ...

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 Scott Elliott for ''Arrangements''

References

External links

* {{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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