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2022 Valeria Luiselli
2021 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2020 NO AWARD
2019
Tessa Hadley: “Funny Little Snake” in The New Yorker
Rachel Kondo: “Girl of Few Seasons” in Ploughshares Solos
Weike Wang: “Omakase” in The New Yorker
2018
Jo Ann Beard: “The Tomb of Wrestling” in Tin House
Marjorie Celona: “Counterblast” in The Southern Review
2017
Michelle Huneven: “Too Good to Be True” in Harper’s
Amit Majmudar: “Secret Lives of the Detainees” in The Kenyon Review
Fiona McFarlane: “Buttony” in The New Yorker
2016
Asako Serizawa: “Train to Harbin” in The Hudson Review
Frederic Tuten: “Winter, 1965” in BOMB
Elizabeth Genovise: “Irises” in Cimarron Review
2015
Dina Nayeri: “A Ride Out of Phrao” in The Alaska Quarterly Review
Elizabeth McCracken: “Birdsong from the Radio” in Zoetrope: All-Story
Christopher Merkner: “Cabins” in Subtropics
2014
Mark Haddon: “The Gun” in Granta
Kristen Iskandrian: “The Inheritors” in Tin House
Laura van den Berg: “Opa-locka” in The Southern Review
2013
Deborah Eisenberg: “Your Duck Is My Duck” in Fence
Kelly Link: “The Summer People” in Tin House
Andrea Barrett: “The Particles” in Tin House
2012
Yiyun Li: “Kindness” in A Public Space
Alice Munro: “Corrie” in The New Yorker
2011
Lynn Freed: “Sunshine” in Narrative Magazine
Matthew Neill Null: “Something You Can’t Live Without” in Oxford American
Jim Shepard: “Your Fate Hurtles Down at You” in Electric Literature
2010
Daniyal Mueenuddin: “A Spoiled Man” in The New Yorker September 15, 2008
James Lasdun: “Oh, Death” in The Paris Review as “The Hollow”, Spring 2009 #188
William Trevor: “The Woman of the House” in The New Yorker, December 15, 2008
2009
Graham Joyce: “An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen” in The Paris Review
Junot Díaz: “Wildwood” in The New Yorker
2008
Alexi Zentner: “Touch” in Tin House
Alice Munro: “What Do You Want To Know For?” in The American Scholar
William Trevor: “Folie a Deux” in The New Yorker
2007
Eddie Chuculate: “Galveston Bay, 1826” in Manoa, Vol 16., No. 2, Winter 2004
William Trevor: “The Room” in The New Yorker, May 16, 2005
2006
Edward P. Jones: “Old Boys, Old Girls” in The New Yorker, May 3, 2004
Deborah Eisenberg: “Window” in Tin House, Issue 19, Spring 2004
Alice Munro: “Passion” in The New Yorker, March 22, 2004
2005
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: “Refuge in London” in Zoetrope, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003
Sherman Alexie: “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” in The New Yorker, April 21, 2003
Elizabeth Stuckey-French: “Mudlavia” in The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003
2004
No edition
2003
Denis Johnson: “Train Dreams” in The Paris Review, Summer 2002
A. S. Byatt: “The Thing in The Forest” in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The American Embassy”
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 The Callaloo Journal, 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
Random House, 2012
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, August 1986
Joyce 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
Jane Smiley: “Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly
1984
Cynthia Ozick: “Rosa” in The New Yorker, March 21, 1983
Gordon Lish: “For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses” in “The Antioch Review”, Summer 1983, 1984
1983
Raymond Carver: “A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
1982
Susan Kenney: “Facing Front” in Epoch, 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
Anne Leaton: “The Passion of Marco Z” in Transatlantic Review, 55/56
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, 1976
Ella 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, 1973
Cynthia 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 Welton 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 Monthly, 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 The Sewanee Review, Spring 1964
1964
John Cheever: “The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962
1963
Terry Southern: “The Road Out of Axotle” in “Esquire”, August, 1962
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 Olsen: “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
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 Benét: “The Devil and Daniel Webster” in The Saturday Evening Post
1936
James Gould Cozzens: “Total Stranger” in The 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, March 1928
1927
Roark Bradford: “Child of God” in Harper’s Magazine, April 1927
1926
Wilbur Daniel Steele: “Bubbles” in Harper’s Magazine
1925Julian Street: “Mr. Bisbee’s Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
1924
Inez Haynes Irwin: “The Spring Flight” in McCall’s, June 1924
1923
Edgar Valentine Smith: “Prelude” in Harper’s Magazine, May 1923
1922
Irvin S. Cobb: “Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan, 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
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