O. Henry Awards
The O. Henry Awards are yearly prizes given to short stories of exceptional merit. They are named after an American master of the form, O. Henry. They were first awarded in 1919. The O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in American and Canadian magazines, written in the English language. Starting in 2003, The O. Henry Prize Stories is dedicated to a writer who has made a major contribution to the art of the short story. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 was dedicated to Mavis Gallant, a Canadian writer who lives in Paris, France.
List of first prize winners 2003 Denis Johnson : "Train Dreams" in the Paris Review, Summer 2002A. S. Byatt : "The Thing in the Forest" in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002 2002 Kevin Brockmeier : "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 7 2001 Mary Swan : "The Deep” in The Malahat Review, No. 131 2000 John Edgar Wideman : "Weight” in Callaloo, Vol. 22, No. 3 1999 Peter Baida : "A Nurse's Story” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3 1998 Lorrie Moore : "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997 1997 Mary Gordon : "City Life” in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1 1996 Stephen King : "The Man in the Black Suit” in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994 1995 Cornelia Nixon : "The Women Come and Go” in New England Review, Spring 1994 1994 Alison Baker : "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1993 1993 Thom Jones : "The Pugilist at Rest” in The New Yorker, December 2, 1991 1992 Cynthia Ozick : "Puttermesser Paired” in The New Yorker, October 8, 1990 1991 John Updike : "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in The New Yorker, June 11, 1990 1990 Leo E. Litwak : "The Eleventh Edition” in TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989 1989 Ernest J. Finney : "Peacocks” in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988 1988 Raymond Carver : "Errand” in The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 1987 Louise Erdrich : "Fleur” in Esquire Magazine, August 1986Joyce Johnson : "The Children's Wing” in Harper's Magazine, July 1986 1986 Alice Walker : "Kindred Spirits” in Esquire, August 1985 1985 Stuart Dybek : "Hot Ice” in Antaeus MagazineJane Smiley : "Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly 1984 Cynthia Ozick : "Rosa” in The New Yorker, March 21, 1983 1983 Raymond Carver : "A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3 1982 Susan Kenney : "Facing Front” in Epoch Magazine, Winter 1980 1981 Cynthia Ozick : "The Shawl” in The New Yorker, May 26, 1980 1980 Saul Bellow : "A Silver Dish” in The New Yorker, September 25, 1978 1979 Gordon Weaver : "Getting Serious” in The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977 1978 Woody Allen : "The Kugelmass Episode” in The New Yorker, May 2, 1977 1977 Shirley Hazzard : "A Long Story Short” in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976Ella Leffland : "Last Courtesies” in Harper's Magazine, July 1976 1976 Harold Brodkey : "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in Esquire, August 1975 1975 Harold Brodkey : "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” in The New Yorker, September 17, 1973Cynthia Ozick : "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” in Esquire, May 1974 1974 Renata Adler : "Brownstone” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1973 1973 Joyce Carol Oates : "The Dead” in McCall's, July 1971 1972 John Batki : "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971 1971 Florence M Hecht : "Twin Bed Bridge” in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1970 1970 Robert Hemenway : "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969 1969 Bernard Malamud : "Man in the Drawer” in The Atlantic, April 1968 1968 Eudora Welty : "The Demonstrators” in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966 1967 Joyce Carol Oates : "In the Region of Ice” in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966 1966 John Updike : "The Bulgarian Poetess” in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965 1965 Flannery O'Connor : "Revelation” in Sewanee Review, Spring 1964 1964 John Cheever : "The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962 1963 Flannery O'Connor : "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in New World Writing 1962 Katherine Anne Porter : "Holiday” in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1960 1961 Tillie Olson : "Tell Me a Riddle” in New World Writing, No. 16 1960 Lawrence Sargent Hall : "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59 1959 Peter Taylor : "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review 1958 Martha Gellhorn : "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly 1957 Flannery O'Connor : "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review 1956 John Cheever : "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker 1955 Jean Stafford : "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker 1954 Thomas Mabry : "The Indian Feather” in The Sewanee Review 1951 Harris Downey : "The Hunters” in Epoch Magazine 1950 Wallace Stegner : "The Blue-Winged Teal” in Harper's Magazine 1949 William Faulkner : "A Courtship” in The Sewanee Review 1948 Truman Capote : "Shut a Final Door” in The Atlantic Monthly 1947 John Bell Clayton : "The White Circle” in Harper's Magazine 1946 John Mayo Goss : "Bird Song” in The Atlantic Monthly 1945 Walter Van Tilburg Clark : "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review 1944 Irwin Shaw : "Walking Wounded” in The New Yorker 1943 Eudora Welty : "Livvie is Back” in The Atlantic Monthly 1942 Eudora Welty : "The Wide Net” in Harper's Magazine 1941 Kay Boyle : "Defeat” in The New Yorker 1940 Stephen Vincent Benét : "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” in The Saturday Evening Post 1939 William Faulkner : "Barn Burning” in Harper's Magazine 1938 Albert Maltz : "The Happiest Man on Earth” in Harper's Magazine 1937 Stephen Vincent Benet : "The Devil and Daniel Webster” in The Saturday Evening Post 1936 James Gould Cozzens : "Total Stranger” in Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936 1935 Kay Boyle : "The White Horses of Vienna” in Harper's Magazine 1934 Louis Paul : "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in Esquire 1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : "Gal Young Un” in Harper's Magazine, June & July 1932 1932 Stephen Vincent Benét : "An End to Dreams” in Pictorial Review, February 1932 1931 Wilbur Daniel Steele : "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in Pictorial Review 1930 W.R. Burnett : "Dressing-Up” in Harper's Magazine, November 1929William H. John : "Neither Jew nor Greek” in Century Magazine, August 1929 1929 Dorothy Parker : "Big Blonde” in Bookman Magazine, February 1929 1928 Walter Duranty : "The Parrot” in Redbook Magazine, March 1928 1927 Roarke Bradford : "Child of God” in Harper's Magazine, April 1927 1926 Wilbur Daniel Steele : "Bubbles” in Harper's Magazine 1925 Julian Street : "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925 1924 Inez Haynes Irwin : "The Spring Flight” in McCall's Magazine, June 1924 1923 Edgar Valentine Smith : "Prelude” in Harper's Magazine, May 1923 1922 Irvin S. Cobb : "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1922 1921 Edison Marshall : "The Heart of Little Shikara” in Everybody's Magazine, January 1921 1920 Maxwell Struthers Burt : "Each in His Generation” in Scribner's Magazine, July 1920 1919 Margaret Prescott Montague : "England to America” in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918
External linkComplete list of winners 1919-1999
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