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

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in to a North American writer in a blind-judging contest for a collection of English language short stories. The collection is subsequently published by the

. The prize is 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. O'Connor was a Southern writer who of ...

. The prize was established in 1983 and has since published more than seventy collections. Originally, the prize was awarded annually to two winners for a collection of

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single 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 old ...

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

s. Starting in 2016, there has only been one winner per competition cycle.

Winners

* 1983 David Walton for ''Evening Out'' * 1983 Leigh Allison Wilson for ''From the Bottom Up'' * 1984 Mary Hood for ''How Far She Went'' * 1984 Sandra Thompson for ''Close-Ups'' * 1984 Susan Neville 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 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 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 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 Alyce Miller for ''The Nature of Longing'' * 1993 Dianne Nelson for ''A Brief History of Male Nudes in America'' * 1995 C. M. Mayo for ''Sky Over El Nido'' * 1996

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

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 work ...

for ''Unified Field Theory'' * 1999 Hester Kaplan 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 William Roorbach (born August 8, 1953) is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. He has authored fiction and nonfiction works including ''Big Bend,'' which won the Flannery O'Connor Awar ...

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 for ''Copy Cats'' * 2006

Greg Downs Gregory Downs (born 13 December 1958) is an English former professional footballer. Originally a centre-forward, he switched to left full-back early in his career. Downs began his career with Norwich City where he was player of the year in 19 ...

for ''Spit Baths'' * 2007 Anne Panning for '' Super America'' * 2007 Margot Singer for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * 2007 Peter LaSalle 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 for ''Mad Prairie'' * 2021 Toni Ann Johnson for ''Light Skin Gone to Waste'' * 2022 Carol Roh Spaulding for ''Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories'' * 2023 Iheoma Nwachukwu for ''Japa and Other Stories'' * 2024 A. Muia for ''A Desert Between Two Seas''

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 Flannery O'Connor

Winners

Finalists

See also

References

External links