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    Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

    by Literary Hub May 16, 2019 1 minute

    Now celebrating its centenary, the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, edited by Laura Furman, presents the 2019 winners of the prize for short fiction. The anthology will be published this fall, via Anchor Books. We are happy to announce the winners below.

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    Tessa Hadley
    “Funny Little Snake” The New Yorker

    John Keeble
    “Synchronicity,” Harper’s Magazine

    Moira McCavana
    “No Spanish,” Harvard Review

    Rachel Kondo
    “Girl of Few Seasons,” Ploughshares Solos

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
    “Julia and Sunny,” Ploughshares

    Stephanie Reents
    “Unstuck,” Witness

    Alexia Arthurs
    “Mermaid River,” The Sewanee Review

    Valerie O’Riordan
    “Bad Girl,” LitMag

    Patricia Engel
    “Aguacero,” Kenyon Review

    Kenan Orhan
    “Soma,” The Massachusetts Review

    Sarah Hall
    “Goodnight Nobody,” One Story

    Bryan Washington
    “610 North, 610 West,” Tin House

    Isabella Hammad
    “Mr. Can’aan,” The Paris Review

    Weike Wang
    “Omakase,” The New Yorker

    Caoilinn Hughes
    “Prime,” Granta.com

    Souvankham Thammavongsa
    “Slingshot,” Harper’s Magazine

    Liza Ward
    “The Shrew Tree,” Zyzzyva

    Doua Thao
    “Flowers for America,” Fiction

    Alexander MacLeod
    “Lagomorph,” Granta

    John Edgar Wideman
    “Maps and Ledgers,” Harper’s Magazine

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    The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) will be published in September by Anchor Books.

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