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.
Carol Ann Shields, was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
Mary Flannery O'Connor 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.
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
Jin Xuefei is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is the university press of the University of Georgia, a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in Georgia and a member of the Association of University Presses.
Cecil Dawkins was an American author who wrote primarily fiction.
Robie Mayhew Macauley was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.
Mary Hood 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 Southern Sky – two novellas – And Venus is Blue and Seam Busters – and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.
Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.
David Crouse 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 O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of short stories, Copy Cats. Published in 2008, his most recent collection of stories, The Man Back There, was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.
Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma was an Italian American short story writer.
Susan Neville is a short story writer, essayist and professor, known for her work exploring Indiana and the Midwest.
Melissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist.
Peter LaSalle is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.
Rita Ciresi is an American short story writer and novelist. She is the author of three award-winning novels that address the Italian-American experience.
Toni Graham is an American fiction writer. She is a professor of English at Oklahoma State University; she also serves as editor and fiction editor for The Cimarron Review.
Edward Hamlin is an American fiction writer and composer of music for acoustic guitar.
Ellen J. Levy is an American writer and academic who is an associate professor of English at Colorado State University. Her collection of short stories, Love, In Theory, was published in 2012, and her first novel, The Cape Doctor, in 2021 to positive reviews.
Carol Roh Spaulding is the pen name of Carol Spaulding-Kruse, an American writer of fiction and non-fiction who teaches at Drake University. She has stated she uses that pen name to blend her Korean and European heritage.
