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| 2012 |
- Yiyun Li: "Kindness" in A Public Space
- Alice Munro: "Corrie" in The New Yorker
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| 2011 |
- Lynn Freed: "Sunshine"
- Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without"
- Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You"
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| 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
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| 2009 |
- Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" in The Paris Review
- Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" in The New Yorker
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 2004 |
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| 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
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| 2002 |
- Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 7
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| 2001 |
- Mary Swan: "The Deep” in The Malahat Review, No. 131
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| 2000 |
- John Edgar Wideman: "Weight” in The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
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| 1999 |
- Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3
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| 1998 |
- Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997
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| 1997 |
- Mary Gordon: "City Life” in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1
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| 1996 |
- Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit” in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994
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| 1995 |
- Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go” in New England Review, Spring 1994
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| 1994 |
- Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1993
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| 1993 |
- Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest” in The New Yorker, December 2, 1991
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| 1992 |
- Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired” in The New Yorker, October 8, 1990
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| 1991 |
- John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in The New Yorker, June 11, 1990
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| 1990 |
- Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition” in TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989
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| 1989 |
- Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks” in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988
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| 1988 |
- Raymond Carver: "Errand” in The New Yorker, June 1, 1987
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| 1987 |
- Louise Erdrich: "Fleur” in Esquire, August 1986
- Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing” in Harper's Magazine, July 1986
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| 1986 |
- Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits” in Esquire, August 1985
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| 1985 |
- Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice” in Antaeus
- Jane Smiley: "Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly
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| 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
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| 1983 |
- Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
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| 1982 |
- Susan Kenney: "Facing Front” in Epoch, Winter 1980
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| 1981 |
- Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl” in The New Yorker, May 26, 1980
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| 1980 |
- Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish” in The New Yorker, September 25, 1978
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| 1979 |
- Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious” in The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977
- Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" in Transatlantic Review, 55/56
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| 1978 |
- Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode” in The New Yorker, May 2, 1977
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| 1977 |
- Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short” in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976
- Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies” in Harper's Magazine, July 1976
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| 1976 |
- Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in Esquire, August 1975
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| 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
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| 1974 |
- Renata Adler: "Brownstone” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1973
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| 1973 |
- Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead” in McCall's, July 1971
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| 1972 |
- John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971
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| 1971 |
- Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge” in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1970
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| 1970 |
- Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969
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| 1969 |
- Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer” in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1968
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| 1968 |
- Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators” in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966
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| 1967 |
- Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice” in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966
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| 1966 |
- John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess” in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965
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| 1965 |
- Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation” in The Sewanee Review, Spring 1964
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| 1964 |
- John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962
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| 1963 |
- Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" in "Esquire", August, 1962
- Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in New World Writing
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| 1962 |
- Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday” in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1960
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| 1961 |
- Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle” in New World Writing, No. 16
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| 1960 |
- Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958–59
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| 1959 |
- Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review
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| 1958 |
- Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly
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| 1957 |
- Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review
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| 1956 |
- John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker
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| 1955 |
- Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker
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| 1954 |
- Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather” in The Sewanee Review
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| 1951 |
- Harris Downey: "The Hunters” in Epoch
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| 1950 |
- Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1949 |
- William Faulkner: "A Courtship” in The Sewanee Review
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| 1948 |
- Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door” in The Atlantic Monthly
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| 1947 |
- John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1946 |
- John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song” in The Atlantic Monthly
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| 1945 |
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review
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| 1944 |
- Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded” in The New Yorker
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| 1943 |
- Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back” in The Atlantic Monthly
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| 1942 |
- Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1941 |
- Kay Boyle: "Defeat” in The New Yorker
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| 1940 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” in The Saturday Evening Post
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| 1939 |
- William Faulkner: "Barn Burning” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1938 |
- Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1937 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster” in The Saturday Evening Post
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| 1936 |
- James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger” in The Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936
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| 1935 |
- Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1934 |
- Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in Esquire
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| 1933 |
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un” in Harper's Magazine, June & July 1932
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| 1932 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams” in Pictorial Review, February 1932
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| 1931 |
- Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in Pictorial Review
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| 1930 |
- W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up” in Harper's Magazine, November 1929
- William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek” in Century Magazine, August 1929
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| 1929 |
- Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde” in Bookman Magazine, February 1929
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| 1928 |
- Walter Duranty: "The Parrot” in Redbook, March 1928
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| 1927 |
- Roark Bradford: "Child of God” in Harper's Magazine, April 1927
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| 1926 |
- Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles” in Harper's Magazine
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| 1925 |
- Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
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| 1924 |
- Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight” in McCall's, June 1924
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| 1923 |
- Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude” in Harper's Magazine, May 1923
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| 1922 |
- Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan, November 1922
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| 1921 |
- Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” in Everybody's Magazine, January 1921
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| 1920 |
- Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation” in Scribner's Magazine, July 1920
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| 1919 |
- Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America” in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918
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