Widely regarded as the nation s most prestigious awards for short fiction. The Atlantic Monthly
Tessa Hadley, Funny Little Snake The New Yorker
John Keeble, Synchronicity, Harper s Magazine
Moira McCavana, No Spanish, Harvard Review
Rachel Kondo, Girl of Few Seasons, Ploughshares Solos
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Julia and Sunny, Ploughshares
Stephanie Reents, Unstuck, Witness
Alexia Arthurs, Mermaid River, The Sewanee Review
Valerie O Riordan, Bad Girl, LitMag
Patricia Engel, Aguacero, Kenyon Review
Kenan Orhan, Soma, The Massachusetts Review
Sarah Hall, Goodnight Nobody, One Story
Bryan Washington, 610 North, 610 West, Tin House
Isabella Hammad, Mr. Can aan, The Paris Review
Weike Wang, Omakase, The New Yorker
Caoilinn Hughes, Prime, Granta.com
Souvankham Thammavongsa, Slingshot, Harper s Magazine
Liza Ward, The Shrew Tree, Zyzzyva
Doua Thao, Flowers for America, Fiction
Alexander MacLeod, Lagomorph, Granta
John Edgar Wideman, Maps and Ledgers, Harper s Magazine
Laura Furman, series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who Stayed, she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.