Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
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.
Radclyffe is an American author of lesbian romance, paranormal romance, erotica and mystery. She has authored multiple short stories, fan fiction and edited numerous anthologies. Barot is a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame and winner of the Laurel Wreath, Beanpot, RWA Prism, Lories, Aspen Gold, Golden Crown Literary Society, and Lambda Literary Awards. She is a 2003/04 recipient of The Alice B Readers Award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America. In 2014, the Lambda Literary Foundation awarded Barot with the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award acknowledging her as an established author, with a strong following, and the promise of future high-quality work. Barot founded the LGBTQ publishing house Bold Strokes Books in 2004. She has given many workshops on the craft of writing and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat where she offers both face-to-face and online workshops to authors at all stages of development.
Alyce Miller is an American writer who currently lives in the DC Metro area.
Cecil Dawkins was an American author who wrote primarily fiction.
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.
Carole L. Glickfeld is an American novelist and short story writer.
Bill Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic.
Kellie Wells is an American professor of English, novelist, and short story writer.
Jessica Treadway is an American short story writer.
Peter Selgin 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.
Ashlee Adams Crews is an American fiction writer who typically incorporates her rural Middle Georgia roots in her works of literature.
Monica McFawn is an American writer. Her story collection, Bright Shards of Someplace Else, won the 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award. McFawn is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and her work has appeared in journals such as the Georgia Review, Confrontation, Gargoyle, Web Conjunctions, Conduit, Passages North, and Hotel Amerika. She received her MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University, and has published both fiction and poetry. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University.
Janna McMahan is an American author who wrote her first novel when she was in her early thirties. She has published four novels, a novella, and several short stories.
Yang Huang is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, was a finalist for the 2008 Bellwether Prize and the 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. Her short story collection, My Old Faithful, won 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction.
Alden Jones is an American writer and educator. She is the author of memoirs The Wanting Was a Wilderness (2020) and The Blind Masseuse (2013) and the short story collection Unaccompanied Minors (2014). The Blind Masseuse was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogal Award for the Art of the Essay.
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.
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.
