Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Template:Short description 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.<ref name="UGA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The prize was established in 1983 and has since published more than seventy collections.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Finalists
- 2009 Scott Elliott for Arrangements