The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 by Laura Furman

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 by Laura Furman

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.

The Tomb of Wrestling, Jo Ann Beard, Tin House
Counterblast, Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review
Nayla, Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner
Lucky Dragon, Viet Dinh, Ploughshares
Stop 'n' Go, Michael Parker, New England Review
Past Perfect Continuous, Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review
Inversion of Marcia, Thomas Bolt, n+1
Nights in Logar, Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space
How We Eat, Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch
Deaf and Blind, Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker
Why Were They Throwing Bricks?, Jenny Zhang, n+1
An Amount of Discretion, Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review
Queen Elizabeth, Brad Felver, One Story
The Stamp Collector, Dave King, Fence
More or Less Like a Man, Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review
The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope
Up Here, Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares
The Houses That Are Left Behind, Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review
We Keep Them Anyway, Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review
Solstice, Anne Enright, The New Yorker

Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent

Furman, Laura: - Laura Furman was born in New York, and educated in New York City public schools and at Bennington College. Her first story appeared in The New Yorker in 1976, and since then her work has been published in many magazines, including Yale Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, Preservation, House & Garden, and other magazines. Her books include three collections of short stories, two novels, and a memoir. She is the recipient of fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Dobie Paisano Project, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received grants in residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and in 2009 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She taught for many years in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Series editor of The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories since 2002, Furman selects the twenty winning stories each year. She lives in Central Texas.

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ISBN 13	9780525436584
ISBN 10	0525436588
Title	The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018
Author	Laura Furman
Series	O Henry Prize Collection
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2018-09-04
Number of pages	400
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