Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers, it has since become a significant proving ground for newcomers.
It is awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or novellas. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of US$1000, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract. The Press occasionally selects more than two winners.
On October 27, 2005, the University of Georgia Press rescinded author Brad Vice's Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and recalled copies of his collection The Bear Bryant Funeral Train. Vice was alleged to have plagiarized sections of one story from Carl Carmer's book Stars Fell on Alabama (1934)[1] (a charge that Vice and others dispute).[2]
Winners
- 2013 Karin Lin-Greenberg for Faulty Predictions
- 2013 Monica McFawn for Bright Shards of Someplace Else
- 2012 Tom Kealey for Thieves I've Known
- 2012 Jacqueline Gorman for The Viewing Room
- 2011 Melinda Moustakis for Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
- 2011 Amina Gautier for At-Risk
- 2010 Linda L. Grover for The Dance Boots
- 2010 Jessica Treadway for Please Come Back to Me
- 2009 Geoffrey Becker for Black Elvis
- 2009 Lori Ostlund The Bigness of the World
- 2008 Peter Selgin for Drowning Lessons
- 2008 Andrew J. Porter for The Theory of Light and Matter
- 2007 Anne Panning for Super America
- 2007 Peter LaSalle for Tell Borges If You See Him
- 2007 Margot Singer for The Pale of Settlement
- 2006 Greg Downs for Spit Baths
- 2005 David Crouse for Copy Cats
- 2003 Ed Allen for Ate It Anyway
- 2003 Catherine Brady for Curled in the Bed of Love
- 2002 Kellie Wells for Compression Scars
- 2002 Rita Ciresi for Mother Rocket
- 2001 Bill Roorbach for Big Bend
- 2000 Robert Anderson for Ice Age
- 2000 Darrell Spencer for Caution: Men in Trees
- 1999 Mary Clyde for Survival Rates
- 1999 Hester Kaplan for The Edge of Marriage
- 1998 Frank Soos for Unified Field Theory
- 1996 Ha Jin for Under the Red Flag
- 1996 Wendy Brenner for Large Animals in Everyday Life
- 1996 Paul Rawlins for No Lie Like Love
- 1995 C. M. Mayo for Sky Over El Nido
- 1993 Alyce Miller for The Nature of Longing
- 1993 Dianne Nelson for A Brief History of Male Nudes in America
- 1992 Alfred DePew for The Melancholy of Departure
- 1991 T. M. McNally for Low flying Aircraft
- 1991 Robert H. Abel for Ghost Troops
- 1990 Debra Monroe for The Source of Trouble
- 1990 Nancy Zafris for The People I Know
- 1990 Antonya Nelson for The Expendables
- 1989 Carol L. Glickfeld for Useful Gifts
- 1988 Gail Galloway Adams for The Purchase of Order
- 1988 Philip F. Deaver for Silent Retreats
- 1987 Melissa Pritchard for Spirit Seizures
- 1987 Salvatore La Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst
- 1986 Tony Ardizzone for The Evening News (stories)
- 1986 Peter Meinke for The Piano Tuner
- 1985 Daniel Curley Living with Snakes
- 1985 Molly Giles for Rough Translations
- 1985 François Camoin for Why Men are Afraid of Women
- 1984 Mary Hood for How Far She Went
- 1984 Susan Neville for The Invention of Flight
- 1984 Sandra Thompson for Close-Ups
- 1983 Leigh Allison Wilson for From the Bottom Up
- 1983 David Walton for Evening Out
See also
References
- ^ "A Charming Plagiarist: The downfall of Brad Vice" by Robert Clark Young New York Press, Vol 18, Issue 48, November 30-Dec 6, 2005. Accessed Dec. 9, 2005.
- ^ Fell In Alabama: Brad Vice's Tuscaloosa Night by Jake Adam York. storySouth. Accessed November 6, 2005.