O. Henry Award - Wikipedia O. Henry Award From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Annual award for exceptional short stories This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "O. Henry Award" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) O. Henry Award Awarded for Short story awards Country United States First awarded 1918; 103 years ago (1918) Website http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/  The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and Canadian magazines, written in English. Until 2002 there were first, second, and third prize winners; the collection is called The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and the original collection was called Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards. Contents 1 History and format 2 Partnership with PEN American Center 3 Juror favorites (2003–), First-prize winners (1919–2002) 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History and format[edit] The award was first presented in 1918 and funded by the Society of Arts and Sciences.[1][2] As of 2012, the series editor chooses twenty short stories, each an O. Henry Prize story. All stories originally written in the English language and published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration. Three jurors are appointed annually. The jurors receive the twenty prize stories in manuscript form, with no identification of author or publication. Each juror, acting independently, chooses a short story of special interest and merit, and comments on that story. The goal of The O. Henry Prize Stories remains to strengthen the art of the short story. 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 current series editor for The O. Henry Prize Stories is Laura Furman. Past series editors have been: Blanche Colton Williams (1919–32), Harry Hansen (1933–40), Herschel Brickell (1941–51), Paul Engle (1954–59), Mary Stegner (1960), Richard Poirier (1961–66, assisted by William Abrahams, 1964–66), William Abrahams (1967–96), and Larry Dark (1997–2002). There were no volumes of the series in 1952 and 1953 (due to Herschel Brickell's death), and in 2004 (because the 2005 volume would be published in January, rather than October).[1] Partnership with PEN American Center[edit] In 2009 The O. Henry Prize Stories publisher, Anchor Books, renamed the series in partnership with the PEN American Center (today PEN America), producing the first PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Proceeds from the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 would be directed to PEN's Readers & Writers Program, which sends well-known authors to under served inner-city schools. The selection included stories by Graham Joyce, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, E. V. Slate, John Burnside, Mohan Sikka, L. E. Miller, Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Caitlin Horrocks, Ha Jin, Paul Theroux, Judy Troy, Nadine Gordimer, Viet Dinh, Karen Brown, Marisa Silver, Paul Yoon, Andrew Sean Greer, and Junot Díaz, with A. S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien and Anthony Doerr – all authors of past O. Henry Prize Stories – serving as the prize jury.[3] In an interview for the Vintage Books and Anchor Books blog, editor Laura Furman called the collaboration with PEN a "natural partnership."[4] Juror favorites (2003–), First-prize winners (1919–2002)[edit] Source: The O. Henry Prize Stories past winners.[5] 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 Elizabeth Genovise: "Irises" in Cimarron Review Asako Serizawa: "Train to Harbin" in The Hudson Review Frederic Tuten: "Winter, 1965" in BOMB 2015 Elizabeth McCracken: "Birdsong from the Radio" in Zoetrope: All-Story Christopher Merkner: "Cabins" in Subtropics Dina Nayeri: "A Ride Out of Phrao" in The Alaska Quarterly Review 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 Andrea Barrett: "The Particles" in Tin House Deborah Eisenberg: "Your Duck Is My Duck" in Fence Kelly Link: "The Summer People" 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 James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" in The Paris Review, Spring 2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin: "A Spoiled Man" in The New Yorker, September 15, 2008 William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" in The New Yorker, December 15, 2008 2009 Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" in The New Yorker Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" in The Paris Review 2008 Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" in The American Scholar William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" in The New Yorker Alexi Zentner: "Touch" in Tin House 2007 Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" in Manoa, Winter 2004 William Trevor: "The Room" in The New Yorker, May 16, 2005 2006 Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" in Tin House, Spring 2004 Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" in The New Yorker, May 3, 2004 Alice Munro: "Passion" in The New Yorker, March 22, 2004 2005 Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in The New Yorker, April 21, 2003 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" in Zoetrope, Winter 2003 Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003 2004 No edition 2003 A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002 Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in The Paris Review, Summer 2002 2002 Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling" in McSweeney's 2001 Mary Swan: "The Deep" in The Malahat Review 2000 John Edgar Wideman: "Weight" in The Callaloo Journal 1999 Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story" in The Gettysburg Review 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 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, 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 1983 Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing" in Ploughshares 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 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 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 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 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 1953 No edition 1952 No edition 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 1929 William M. John: "Neither Jew Nor Greek" in The 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 1925 Julian 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 See also[edit] The Best American Short Stories References[edit] ^ a b "Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017. ^ Kunitz, Stanley J.; Howard Haycraft (1942). Twentieth Century Authors. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company. ^ Itzkoff, Dave. "O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership", "The New York Times Arts Beat", 2009-04-07. ^ "Two Literary Lions Merge", "Vintage Books", 2009-04-10. ^ "The O. Henry Prize Past Winners". Randomhouse.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017. External links[edit] Official website O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership 2009 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories Three-time winners Past winners (by author, 1919–2017) at Random House Past winners (by date, 1919–1999) at Random House's Bold Type (via Archive.org) Compilations by year v t e O. Henry Short stories "The Duplicity of Hargraves" (1902) "A Retrieved Reformation" (1903) "The Cop and the Anthem" (1904) "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) "The Skylight Room" (1906) "After Twenty Years" (1906) "Conscience in Art" (1907) "The Caballero's Way" (1907) "The Last Leaf" (1907) "The Third Ingredient" (1908) "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910) "Makes the Whole World Kin" (1911) Novels Cabbages and Kings (1904) Story collections The Four Million (1906) Roads of Destiny (1909) Whirligigs (1910) Waifs and Strays (1917) Related O. Henry Award William Sidney Porter House O. Henry House and Museum O. Henry Hall A Night in New Arabia (1917 film) O. Henry's Full House (1952 film) Strictly Business (1962 film) The Trust That Went Bust (1983 miniseries) Katha Sagar (1986 miniseries) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=O._Henry_Award&oldid=998558348" Categories: PEN America awards Awards established in 1919 1918 establishments in the United States O. 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