Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press in to a North American writer in a blind-judging contest for a collection of English language short stories.^[1] The collection is subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press. The prize is named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.^[2]

The prize was established in 1983 and has since published more than seventy collections.^[3] Originally, the prize was awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or novellas. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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2004 No award (award to Brad Vice rescinded due to a plagiarism scandal)
2005 David Crouse for Copy Cats
2006 Greg Downs 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 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^[4]
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

Finalists

2009 Scott Elliott for Arrangements

References

^ "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 2023 Winner". University of Georgia. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
^ "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction". University of Georgia Press. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction". University of Georgia Press. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ Sharp, Amanda. "University of Georgia Press announces Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winners". University of Georgia Press. Retrieved 17 June 2017.

External links

Official website

Flannery O'Connor (works)

Novels

Wise Blood (1952)
The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Why Do the Heathen Rage? (2024)

Short story
collections

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)	"A Good Man is Hard to Find" "The River" "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" "A Stroke of Good Fortune" "A Temple of the Holy Ghost" "The Artificial Nigger" "A Circle in the Fire" "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" "Good Country People" "The Displaced Person"
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)	"Everything That Rises Must Converge" "Greenleaf" "A View of the Woods" "The Enduring Chill" "The Comforts of Home" "The Lame Shall Enter First" "Revelation" "Parker's Back" "Judgement Day"
Previously unavailable stories included in The Complete Stories (1971)	"The Geranium" "The Barber" "Wildcat" "The Crop" "The Turkey" "The Train" "The Peeler" "The Heart of the Park" "Enoch and the Gorilla" "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" "The Partridge Festival" "Why Do the Heathen Rage?"