Complete list of Flannery O'Connor Award winners
About the Flannery O'Connor Award
More than fifty short-story collections have appeared in the Flannery O'Connor Award series, which was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership. The first prize-winning book was published in 1983; the award has since become an important proving ground for writers and a showcase for the talent and promise that have brought about a resurgence in the short story as a genre. Winners are selected through an annual competition that attracts as many as three hundred manuscripts.
Winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction include such widely read authors as Ha Jin, Antonya Nelson, Rita Ciresi, and Mary Hood.
Evening Out
David Walton
1983
From the Bottom Up
Leigh Allison Wilson
1983
Close-Ups
Sandra Thompson
1984
The Invention of Flight
Susan Neville
1984
Why Men Are Afraid of Women
Francois Camoin
1984
Living with
Snakes
David Curley
1985
Rough
Translations
Molly Giles
1985
The Evening News
Tony Ardizzone
1986
The Piano
Tuner
Peter Meinke
1986
Spirit
Seizures
Melissa Pritchard
1987
The Boys of Bensonhurst
Salvatore La Puma
1987
The Purchase of
Order
Gail Galloway Adams
1988
Silent
Retreats
Philip F. Deaver
1988
Useful Gifts
Carole L. Glickfeld
1989
The Expendables
Antonya Nelson
1989
The People I
Know
Nancy Zafris
1990
The Source of Trouble
Debra Monroe
1990
Low Flying
Aircraft
T. M. McNally
1991
Ghosts Traps
Robert Abel
1991
The Melancholy of Departure
Alfred DePew
1992
The Consequences of Desire
Dennis Hathaway
1992
A Brief History
of Male Nudes in America
Dianne Nelson
1993
Mother Rocket
Rita Ciresi
1993
All My Relations
Christopher McIlroy
1994
The Nature of Longing
Alyce Miller
1994
Nervous Dancer
Carol Lee Lorenzo
1995
Sky over El
Nido
C. M. Mayo
1995
No Lie Like Love
Paul Rawlins
1996
Large Animals in Everyday Life
Wendy Brenner
1996
The
Quarry
Harvey Grossinger
1997
Under the Red Flag
Winter Money
Andy Plattner
1997
Unified Field
Theory
Frank Soos
1998
The Edge of Marriage
Hester Kaplan
1999
Survival Rates
Mary Clyde
1999
Caution, Men in Trees
Darrel Spencer
2000
Ice Age
Robert Anderson
2000
Break Any Woman
Down
Dana Johnson
2001
Big Bend
Bill Roorbach
2001
The Necessary
Grace to Fall
Gina Ochsner
2002
Compression
Scars
Kellie Wells
2002
Eyesores
Eric Shade
2003
Curled in the Bed
of Love
Catherine Brady
2003
Ate It
Anyway
Ed Allen
2003
Sorry I Worried
You
Gary Fincke
2004
Copy
Cats
David Crouse
2005
Spit
Baths
Greg Downs
2006
The Imaginary
Lives of Mechanical Men
Randy F. Nelson
2006
The Pale of
Settlement
Margot Singer
2007
Super
America
Anne Panning
2007
Tell Borges If
You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism
Peter LaSalle
2007
The Theory of Light and Matter
Andrew Porter
2008
Drowning Lessons
Peter Selgin
2008
The Bigness of the World
Lori Ostlund
2009
Black Elvis
Geoffrey Becker
2009
